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.
His first wife was Elizabeth Stanley (daughter of William Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle and Anne Leybourne); their children were
- William Parker, 13th Baron Morley (Lord Monteagle of the Gunpowder Plot fame)
- Frances Parker, wife of Christopher Danby of Thorpe Perrow, Yorkshire, and of Farnley, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire.[1]
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.[2]
References
- ↑ Cliffe, J. T. "Danby family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71867. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Sir Henry Chauncey's Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, p353
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