He was the son of
Alice Parker, 9th Baroness Morley, born Lovel (c. 1467–1518), and her husband
Sir William Parker, who was privy counsellor and standard-bearer to
King Richard III. He married Alice St John, granddaughter of Sir John St John (1426–1498) and his wife Alice Bradshaigh, and thus a descendant of Sir Oliver St John and his wife
Margaret Beauchamp—maternal grandmother of
King Henry VII—by whom he had one son,
Sir Henry Parker, who was knighted at the coronation of
Anne Boleyn and died in his father's lifetime. The son of Sir Henry Parker,
Henry, succeeded his grandfather as
Baron Morley. Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley, had two daughters: Margaret, who married
John Shelton, and
Jane, who married
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, the brother of
Henry VIII's
second wife,
Anne Boleyn. His son, Sir Henry Parker, married Elizabeth Calthorpe (1521 – 26 May 1578), the daughter and heiress of Sir Philip Calthorpe of Erwarton in Suffolk (1480 – 17 April 1549) and Amata Boleyn (c.1485 – 1543+), the aunt of Anne Boleyn. In 1523, he was sent as an ambassador to Germany to present the
Order of the Garter to Archduke Ferdinand (later
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor). He was a man of literary attainments and translated some of the writings of
Plutarch,
Seneca,
Cicero and others into English. He was appointed Knight of the Bath on September 29, 1553. ==References==