Elizabeth HOWARD

Elizabeth married Sir Thomas BOLEYN before 1506. Thomas (son of Sir William BOLEYN, Knt. and Margaret BUTLER) was born about 1487; died on 12 Mar 1538/9. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anne BOLEYN was born about 1507; died on 19 May 1536 in Beheaded on Tower Green for alleged adultery.
2. Mary BOLEYN

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

Notes:

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]