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John HOWARD [1, 2] |
- John Howard, Knt., K.G., Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and of Oxfordshire, M.P. for Norfolk, son and heir, succeeded his father in 1436. He served in the war in France in 1452-53. He was a zealous Yorkist, and was knighted by King Edward IV at the Battle of Towton on 29 Mar 1461. Under King Edward IV he held many important appointments. he was summoned to Parliament from 15 Oct 1470 by writs directed 'Johanni Howard de Howard, militi', whereby he is held to have become Lord Howard. By the death in 1481 of his cousin Anne, daughter and sole heiress of John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, he became in right of his mother a co-heir and succeeded a portion of the extensive Mowbray estates. He was created Duke of Norfolk and marshal and Earl Marshal of England on 28 June 1483. Sir John Howard led the van (of archers) at the battle of Bosworth Field, where he was slain on 22 Aug 1475, burial, eventually, at Thetford. [1]
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Sir |
Gender |
Male |
Fact |
Lord Howard [2] |
Fact 1 |
Knight of Garter [2] |
Fact 2 |
28 Jun 1483 |
cr. 6th (1st) Duke of Norfolk [2] |
Death |
22 Aug 1485 |
Slain at Bosworth Field [1, 2] |
Person ID |
I80520 |
Main Tree |
Last Modified |
14 Mar 2020 |
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Sources |
- [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.).
- [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.
- [S01910] Blood Royal, Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England 1066-1399 by. T. Anna Leese.
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