Katherine HOWARD

Family/Spouse: Sir John BOURCHIER. John (son of Sir Humphrey BOURCHIER, Knt. and Elizabeth TYLNEY) was born in 1467; died on 19 Mar 1532/3 in Calais. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joan BOURCHIER died on 17 Feb 1561/2.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Lord Howard
• Fact 1: Knight of Garter
• Fact 2: 28 Jun 1483, cr. 6th (1st) Duke of Norfolk

Notes:

Name:
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.

John married Margaret CHEDWODE before 22 Jan 1467. Margaret died in 1494. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of John Chetwode