Lot 344
Parr, Queen Catherine. A lock of hair, reputedly recovered from her grave.
Queen Catherine Parr (153-1548) married Sir Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley in May 1547, and died there in September 1548 following the birth of a daughter. Her grave was found in May 1782, and the coffin opened, when the body was apparently in remarkable condition. The following summer the grave was reopened and the body was reported to have deteriorated considerably. In the 1860s the chapel at Sudeley was rebuilt by Sir Goerge Gilbert Scott, who erected a canopied tomb for the Queen with a recumbent figure by John Birnie Philip.
