Sir Robert HOWARD

Male Abt 1383 - 1436  (53 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Sir Robert HOWARD was born about 1383; died in 1436.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Knight of Garter
    • Fact: Son of John Howard, Knt., of Wiggenhall, Norfolk by Alice, daughter and heiress of William Tendring

    Robert married Margaret DE MOWBRAY about 1420. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Katherine HOWARD  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 3. Sir John HOWARD  Descendancy chart to this point died on 22 Aug 1485 in Slain at Bosworth Field.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Katherine HOWARD Descendancy chart to this point (1.Robert1)

    Katherine married Edward NEVILLE on 15 Oct 1448 in With Special dispensation. Edward (son of Ralph DE NEVILLE, K.G. and Joan BEAUFORT) died on 18 Oct 1476. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. Edward NEVILLE  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 5. Margaret NEVILLE  Descendancy chart to this point died on 30 Sep 1506; was buried in Cobham.
    3. 6. Ralph NEVILLE  Descendancy chart to this point
    4. 7. Katherine NEVILLE  Descendancy chart to this point

  2. 3.  Sir John HOWARD Descendancy chart to this point (1.Robert1) died on 22 Aug 1485 in Slain at Bosworth Field.

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

    Children:
    1. 8. Sir Thomas HOWARD  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1443; died on 21 May 1524.

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

    Children:
    1. 9. Katherine HOWARD  Descendancy chart to this point died on 12 Mar 1535-6.