Sir Thomas HOWARD

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 28 Jun 1483, cr. Earl of Surrey
• Fact 1: 10 Jul 1510, cr Earl Marshal
• Fact: 1 Feb 1513/4, 2nd Duke of Norfolk

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Name:
Thomas Howard, Knt., K.B., K.G., Sherif of Norfolk and Suffolk, M.P. for Norfolk, P.C. son and heir by first marriage, was born at Stoke Nayland in 1443, and was educated at Thetford Grammar School. He was yeoman in the household of King Edward I. He fought at the Battle of Barnet on 14 Apr 1471, and was severely wounded. After service with the Duke of Burgundy, he became Esquire of the Body to King Edward IV, whom he attended both in England and France. He was created Earl of Surrey on 28 June 1483 (the same day his father was created Duke of Norfolk). He was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Bosworth on 22 Aug 1485. Finding favour with King Henry VII, he entered upon a career of employment for many years. He did notable service in the North, especially stamping out insurrections in 1489 and 1492. His first wife died, as Countess of Surrey, on 4 Apr 1497. He was married for the second time (with dispensation dated 17 Ag 1497 as related in the second degree, to marry in the chapel of the castle of Sheriff Hutton) to Agnes Tilney, daughter of Hugh Tilney, of Skirbeck and Boston, co. Lincoln, by daughter of Walter Tailboys. He was made Lieutenant General in the North in July 1513, and gained victory over the Scots at Flodden Field on 9 September. He was rewarded therefor by being created (with a grant of lands) Duke of Norfolk on 1 Feb. 1513/4. Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, died aged about eighty at Framlingham Castle on 21 May 1524, and was buried at Thetford Abbey. His widow was imprisoned in the Tower in 1541 (with her son Lord William Howard and Margaret his wife, and her daughter the Countess of Bridgewater), and attainted for misprision of treason in concealing the 'evil life' of her step-granddaughter, Katherine Howard, before her marriage to the King Henry VIII.

Thomas married Elizabeth TYLNEY on 30 Apr 1472. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Frederick TYLNEY and Elizabeth CHENEY) died on 04 Apr 1497; was buried in Chapel of St. Edmund, Westminster Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth HOWARD died on 3 Apr 1538.
2. Thomas HOWARD was born in 1473; died on 25 Aug 1554.
3. Lord Edmund HOWARD was born about 1478; died in 19 Mar 1537 or 1543.

Thomas married Agnes TILNEY on 17 Aug 1497 in with dispensation. Agnes died on 31 May 1545. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

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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 Katherine MOLEYNS in 1440. Katherine died on 3 Nov 1465 in Stoke-by-Nayland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: dau. of Sir William Moleyns of Stoke Poges, co. Buckingham