Sir Thomas HOWARD

Male 1443 - 1524  (81 years)


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  • Name Thomas HOWARD  [1, 2
    • 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. [1]
    Prefix Sir 
    Birth 1443  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Fact 28 Jun 1483  cr. Earl of Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Fact 1 10 Jul 1510  cr Earl Marshal Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Fact 1 Feb 1513/4  2nd Duke of Norfolk Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death 21 May 1524  [2
    Person ID I80624  Main Tree
    Last Modified 17 May 2018 

    Father Sir John HOWARD   d. 22 Aug 1485, Slain at Bosworth Field Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Katherine MOLEYNS   d. 3 Nov 1465, Stoke-by-Nayland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 1440  [2
    Family ID F32423  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Elizabeth TYLNEY   d. 04 Apr 1497 
    Marriage 30 Apr 1472  [1, 2
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth HOWARD   d. 3 Apr 1538  [Birth]
     2. Thomas HOWARD,   b. 1473   d. 25 Aug 1554 (Age 81 years)  [Birth]
    +3. Lord Edmund HOWARD,   b. Abt 1478   d. 19 Mar 1537 or 1543 (Age 65 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F32488  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 May 2018 

    Family 2 Agnes TILNEY   d. 31 May 1545 
    Marriage 17 Aug 1497  with dispensation Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F37635  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Apr 2018 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.).

    2. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.