Edward Parker, 12th Baron Morley

Edward Parker, 12th Baron Morley (c. 1550 - 1618) was an English peer, Lord of Morley, Hingham, Hockering, &c., in Norfolk, the son of Henry Parker, 11th Baron Morley and Lady Elizabeth Stanley.

He married Elizabeth Stanley, daughter of William Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle and Anne Leybourne and had William Parker, 13th Baron Morley (Lord Monteagle of the Gunpowder Plot fame) and Frances Parker, wife of Christopher Danby of Thorpe Perrow, Yorkshire, and of Farnley, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire.

His second wife was Gertrude, daughter of Sir Robert Denys of Holcombe Burnell in Devon and widow of John Arundell of Trerice in Cornwall. Her will (1635) can be found in the National Archives "Will of Gertrude Morley, Widow of Trerise."

He was one of the peers who sat in judgment on Mary, Queen of Scots at Fotheringay.[1]

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