Sir John HOWARD

- 1485

• Name	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]
  Prefix	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

  
  

  Father	Sir Robert HOWARD,   b. Abt 1383   d. 1436 (Age 53 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Margaret DE MOWBRAY
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	Abt 1420  [1, 3]
  Family ID	F07155	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Katherine MOLEYNS   d. 3 Nov 1465, Stoke-by-Nayland
  Marriage	1440  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Sir Thomas HOWARD,   b. 1443   d. 21 May 1524 (Age 81 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F32423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret CHEDWODE   d. 1494
  Marriage	Bef 22 Jan 1467  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Katherine HOWARD   d. 12 Mar 1535-6  [Birth]
  Family ID	F32424	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Fact - - Lord Howard Fact 1 - - Knight of Garter  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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.