Northampton, William Parr, Marquis of, 1513-1571

found: The case of my Lord Roos. The Lord Roos did in the Court of Arches Cant. London, sue his lady in a cause of separation and divorce propter adulterium. The lady his wife appeared to that suit in the Arches, 1690?;part 2 (An act touching the marriage of the Lord Marquess of Northampton, and the Lady Elizabeth his wife)

found: Cokayne, G. Complete peerage, 1910:vol. 9, p. 669-674 (William Parr, 1546/7-53 and 1559-71, Marquess of Northampton; in Jan. 1547/8 he m. 2ndly, Elizabeth, da. of George (Brooke), Lord Cobham; she was born 1526; d. 1565)

found: DNB(Parr, William, Marquis of Northampton and Earl of Essex, 1513-1571; he married first in 1541, Anne, daughter of Henry Bourchier, second earl of Essex. In 1547 he divorced her, and, apparently before the proceedings were properly completed, he married Elizabeth Brook, daughter of Lord Cobham. He had to separate from her for a time in order to get an act of parliament passed, in 1548, to make any children of his first wife illegitimate. In 1552 he procured another act to secure the legality of his second marriage)