Wilburga Beaumont

Notes:

Biography

Wilburga "of Leicestershire" de Beaumont [uncertain] formerly Beaumont
Born 1130 in Ellington, Huntingdonshire, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Robert (Beaumont) de Beaumont [uncertain] and Amice (Gael) de Beaumont [uncertain]
Sister of Marguerite (Beaumont) de Tosny, Hawise (Beaumont) of Leicester, Isabelle (Beaumont) de Paynell, Robert (Beaumont) de Breteuil, John (Beaumont) de Beaumont and Geoffrey (Beaumont) de Beaumont
Wife of Allan Howard — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of Hereward (Segrave) de Segrave — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Gilbert (Segrave) de Segrave and William Howard
Died 1201 in Seagrave, Leicestershire, England
Wilburga was born in 1130. Wilburga de Beaumont ... She passed away in 1201. [1]

This profile is a collaborative work-in-progress. Can you contribute information or sources?

Sources
? First-hand information as remembered by Darrell Parker, Monday, May 19, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.
Richardson, Royal Ancestry (2013) Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), volume III, page 558-559, #6. "Robert of Muelan, Knight, nicknamed le Bossu", No such child as Wilburga, of Robert and Amice is listed by Richardson with their profiles.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mwballard&id=I7628&style=TEXT (This source profile for Wilburga does not list any parents.)


http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p542.htm#i16269 (This source profile for Wilburga does not list any parents for Wilburga, and her husband is listed as Hereward Howard, not Hereward Segrave.

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Royal Ancestry by Richardson, Vol III, page 558 - 559 #6 for Robert II Beaumont, http://thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I44162&tree=hennessee, and Amice Gael does not list a child of theirs named Wilburga.

Neither does any other source I investigated, including Medieval Lands, The Peerage 2nd ed. by Cokayne, Burke's Peerage online, or even the Ancestry Tree listed for her son Gilbert Segrave.

Unless we can uncover a good source for this connection, she should be removed as a child of Robert Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester. Please.

Family/Spouse: Allan Howard. Allan was born in ~1165 in Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England; died in ~1239 in Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married unnamed spouse in 1215 in Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England. unnamed was born in (Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England); died in (Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lucia Germonde. Lucia was born in ~1219 in England; died in 1260 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice Fitton. Alice was born in ~1246; died on 16 Jul 1310 in Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sir John (John I) "of Wiggenhall" Howard
Born about 1276 in Norfolk, England
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of William Howard and Alice (Fitton) Howard
Brother of William Hayward
[spouse(s) unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of John Howard
Died about 1331 in Wiggingham, Sulfolk, England

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Sir John I Howard of Wiggenhall[1]

Birth: ABT 1276[citation needed]

d. 1331[2]

Contents
[hide]
1 Parents
2 Marriage and Issue
3 Occupation
4 Sources
Parents
Sir William Howard m.1 Alice Fitton[2]

Marriage and Issue
Joan Plantagenet of Cornwall.[3] Issue:[1]

Sir John II Howard[1]
Occupation
Sheriff of Norfolk[4]
Gentleman of the King's Bed Chamber
gov. castle of Norwich
Sources
Arundell, B. (2010). Judah Scepter: A Historical and Religious Perspective, (pp.92). iUniverse. Google Books.


Collins, A. & Brydges, E. (1812). Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical, (Vol 1, pp. 52-54). F. C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and son. Google eBook.




The Annual Biography and Obituary (1817) Vol. 1, Page 98-9

Wikipedia: Howard family

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John married Joan de Corwall in 1309. Joan (daughter of Sir Richard Plantagenet, Knight, Earl of Cornwall and Joan FitzAlan) was born in ~1286 in Burford, Shropshire, England; died in 1341; was buried in Howard Chapel, East Winch, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Alice de Boys about 1335. Alice was born in ~ 1314 in Coningsby, Lincoln, England; died in 1374-1375. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Margaret de Scales in 1365 in East Wynch, Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England. Margaret was born in 0___ 1339 in of, Newselles, Hertford, England; died on 18 May 1416 in East Wynch, Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Crusader

Notes:

About Sir John Howard, MP 1365

Sir John Howard, Sheriff of Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, & Huntingdonshire1,2,3,4,5,6

M, #12722, b. circa 1365, d. 17 November 1436

Father Sir Robert Howard7,8,9 b. c 1342, d. 18 Jul 1388

Mother Margaret Scales7,8,9

Sir John Howard, Sheriff of Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, & Huntingdonshire was born circa 1365 at of Wiggenhall, East Winch, Fersfield, & Terrington, Norfolk, England; Age 23 in 1388.3,4,6 He married Margaret de Playz, daughter of Sir John de Playz, 5th Lord Playz and Joan Stapleton, circa 22 June 1378; They had 1 son (Sir John, 7th Lord Plaiz).3,10,4,6 Sir John Howard, Sheriff of Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, & Huntingdonshire married Alice Tendring, daughter of Sir William de Tendring and Katherine Mylde, before June 1397; They had 2 sons (Sir Robert; & Henry, Esq.).3,4,5,6 Sir John Howard, Sheriff of Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, & Huntingdonshire left a will on 1 April 1435.4,6 He died on 17 November 1436 at Jerusalem, Israel; Buried beside his 2nd wife (Alice) at Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk.3,4,6 His estate was probated in 1437.4,6

Family 1 Margaret de Playz b. c 1367, d. bt 7 Aug 1391 - 14 Aug 1391

Child

Sir John Howard, 7th Lord Plaiz+7,4,6 b. c 1385

Family 2 Alice Tendring b. c 1385, d. 18 Oct 1426

Children

Henry Howard, Esq.+4,6 b. c 1400, d. b 1447
Sir Robert Howard+11,4,6 b. c 1401, d. bt Jan 1436 - Apr 1436

Citations

1.[S3541] Unknown author, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, by Gary Boyd Roberts, p. 317; Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 1857; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 68.
2.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. X, p. 542.
3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 234.
4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 409.
5.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 72.
6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 330-331.
7.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 233-234.
8.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 407-408.
9.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 329-330.
10.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 634.
11.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 234-235.
From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p424.htm#i12722
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John HOWARD (Sheriff of Essex)
Born: 1366
Died: 17 Nov 1436, Jerusalem

Notes: Sheriff of Hertford
Father: Robert HOWARD (Sir)
Mother: Margery SCALES
Married 1: Margaret PLAIZ (d. 1381) (dau. of Sir John Plaiz)

Children:

1. John HOWARD
2. Margaret HOWARD

Married 2: Alice TENDRING (d. 18 Oct 1426) (dau. of Sir William Tendring and Catherine Clopton)

Children:

3. Robert HOWARD of Stoke Neyland (Sir)
4. Henry HOWARD of Teringhampton

From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/HOWARD1.htm#John HOWARD (Sheriff of Essex)1
_____________
Sir John Howard1
M, #274370, b. circa 1357, d. 17 November 1437
Last Edited=13 Mar 2008
Sir John Howard was born circa 1357.1 He died on 17 November 1437, while on a pilmgrimage to Jerusalem.1
Children of Sir John Howard

1.Sir John Howard+1 d. 1409

2.Sir Robert Howard+1 b. c 1385, d. 1436

Citations

1.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2906. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p27437.htm#i274370
____________
John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, KG, Earl Marshal (c.1425 – 22 August 1485) was an English nobleman and soldier, and the first Howard Duke of Norfolk. ...
John Howard, born about 1425, was the son of Sir Robert Howard of Tendring (1385–1436) and Margaret de Mowbray (1388–1459), eldest daughter of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (of the first creation) (1366–1399), by Elizabeth FitzAlan (1366–1425). His paternal grandparents were Sir John Howard of Wiggenhall, Norfolk, and Alice Tendring, daughter of Sir William Tendring.[1][2] Howard was a descendant of English royalty through both sides of his family. On his father's side,

Howard was descended from Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, the second son of King John, who had an illegitimate son, named Richard (d.1296), whose daughter, Joan of Cornwall, married Sir John Howard (d. shortly before 23 July 1331).[3]

On his mother's side, Howard was descended from Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, the elder son of Edward I of England by his second wife, Margaret of France, and from Edward I's younger brother, Edmund Crouchback. ....
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard,_1st_Duke_of_Norfolk

HOWARD, Sir John (c.1366-1437), of Wiggenhall and East Winch, Norf., Stoke Nayland, Suff., Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, and Fowlmere, Cambs.

Family and Education

b.c.1366, s. and h. of Sir Robert Howard (d.1389) of Wiggenhall and East Winch by Margaret, da. of Robert, 3rd Lord Scales (d.1369), and Katherine, sis. and coh. of William de Ufford, 2nd earl of Suffolk. m. (1) c.1380, Margaret (c.1367-Aug. 1391), da. and h. of John, 5th Lord Plaiz, by his 2nd w. Joan, da. of Sir Miles Stapleton of Bedale, Yorks. and Ingham, Norf., 1s. d.v.p.; (2) bef. June 1397, Alice (d. 18 Oct. 1426), da. and h. of Sir William Tendring of Tendring Hall and Stoke Nayland by Katherine, wid. of Sir Thomas Clopton, 2s. Kntd. by Mar. 1387.
... etc. ...

From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/howard-sir-john-1366-1437

Links

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/s/Elizabeth-J-Joseph/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0711.html


HOWARD, Sir John (c.1366-1437), of Wiggenhall and East Winch, Norf., Stoke Nayland, Suff., Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, and Fowlmere, Cambs.

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 ***

ConstituencyDates ESSEX Sept. 1397 CAMBRIDGESHIRE 1407 SUFFOLK 1422 Family and Education b.c.1366, s. and h. of Sir Robert Howard (d.1389) of Wiggenhall and East Winch by Margaret, da. of Robert, 3rd Lord Scales (d.1369), and Katherine, sis. and coh. of William de Ufford, 2nd earl of Suffolk. m. (1) c.1380, Margaret (c.1367-Aug. 1391), da. and h. of John, 5th Lord Plaiz, by his 2nd w. Joan, da. of Sir Miles Stapleton of Bedale, Yorks. and Ingham, Norf., 1s. d.v.p.; (2) bef. June 1397, Alice (d. 18 Oct. 1426), da. and h. of Sir William Tendring of Tendring Hall and Stoke Nayland by Katherine, wid. of Sir Thomas Clopton, 2s. Kntd. by Mar. 1387.

Offices Held Commr. of inquiry, Norf. May 1388 (collusion and maintenance in a lawsuit), Essex. Apr. 1405 (treasons and felonies), Suff. June 1422 (post mortem); sewers, Cambs., Norf. Apr., May 1392; array, Norf. Mar. 1392, Essex Dec. 1399, July 1402, Suff. Aug. 1403, Essex Aug.-Nov. 1403, July 1405, Suff. Apr. 1418, Mar. 1419, June 1421; to seize and supervise estates forfeited by the Appellants of 1387-8, Essex Oct. 1397; treat for payment of a communal fine of ¹2,000 Dec. 1397; make proclamation of Henry IV’s intention to govern well, Suff., Essex May 1402; raise royal loans, Suff. Nov. 1419, Suff., Norf. Mar. 1430, Mar. 1431; of oyer and terminer May 1431.

J.p. Suff. 22 July 1397-May 1408, 14 Dec. 1417-July 1434, 16 Nov. 1436-d., Essex 12 Nov. 1397-Oct. 1399, 28 Nov. 1399-Dec. 1414.

Steward of the franchise of Bury St. Edmund’s abbey, Suff. c. Oct. 1399-aft. May 1404.1

Sheriff, Essex and Herts. 24 Nov. 1400-8 Nov. 1401, 10 Nov. 1414-1 Dec. 1415, 4 Nov. 1418-23 Nov. 1419, Cambs. and Hunts. Mich. 1401-4 Nov. 1403.

Tax collector, Essex Mar. 1404.

Biography John was a descendant of Sir William Howard, j.c.p. under Edward I, who possibly came of burgess stock from Bishop’s Lynn. His grandfather, Sir John Howard, served as admiral of the northern fleet (1335-7), and by the mid 14th century the family was of quasi-baronial importance with interests and connexions scattered throughout East Anglia. The Howard estates, accumulated through marriage and purchase, included five manors near Bishop’s Lynn and the property of John’s grandmother, the de Boys heiress, at Fersfield and Garboldisham in south Norfolk and Brook Hall near Dunwich in Suffolk.

John’s father died in 1389, when he was about 23, but his mother lived on until 1416. Most of the inheritance passed to him at his father’s death, however, and that same year his landed holdings were augmented considerably following the demise of his father-in-law, Lord Plaiz.2

Howard’s marriage to Lord Plaiz’s only daughter had been purchased nine years earlier for 300 marks, and now, besides the Plaiz manors at Toft, Weeting and Knapton in Norfolk, he acquired properties outside East Anglia, namely ‘Benetfield Bury’ in Stansted Mountfichet, Oakley and Moze (Essex), Chelsworth (Suffolk) and Fowlmere (Cambridgeshire). These estates, valued at over ¹117 a year when his wife died in 1391, he retained for life ‘by the courtesy’. Howard’s second wife brought him properties on the border of Essex and Suffolk, the most notable being the manor of Stoke Nayland. The estates thus acquired by marriage qualified Sir John for election to Parliament by three shires.

In 1404 he was numbered among the few landowners of England whose net incomes amounted to over 500 marks a year.3

Howard’s career had begun by March 1387 when he was already a knight and serving at sea in the fleet commanded by Richard, earl of Arundel. He was closely connected with Sir Simon Felbrigg, a cousin on his mother’s side, with whom he was associated in a religious foundation in 1392, and it may have been Felbrigg who introduced him to the royal household. (Sir Simon had married a kinswoman of Queen Anne and from 1395 appeared on ceremonial occasions as the King’s standard-bearer.) On 10 Mar. 1394 Howard was retained by Richard II for life with an annuity of ¹40. That September he joined the King’s expedition in Ireland, returning in the following spring. The cancellation of his appointment as sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in December 1396 was evidently of no lasting political significance, for he was nominated as a j.p. in Suffolk in the following July.

Howard’s election to Parliament in the autumn of 1397 probably owed much to his position as one of the King’s retainers, for Richard required supporters in the Commons for the enforcement of his stringent measures against the Appellants of 1387-8. During the recess he was commissioned to seize and supervise estates forfeited by Gloucester, Arundel and Warwick, and in December he was instructed to treat with the men of Essex and Hertfordshire for payment of a communal fine of ¹2,000 and to return to Parliament when it re-assembled at Shrewsbury ready, in conjunction with his fellow shire knight, Robert Tey, to give a personal account to the King of that commission’s activities. When Richard set off on his second voyage to Ireland, in the spring of 1399, Sir John again accompanied him.4

Howard’s royal annuity was not confirmed by Henry IV, but he soon accommodated himself to the new regime and his influence as a landed magnate remained unimpaired. He continued to serve on royal commissions and as a j.p. without interruption, and he now became steward of the liberty of Bury St. Edmunds. Sir John’s chief interests lay not with his hereditary estates bordering the Wash, but rather in the property acquired by his marriages. Thus, he officiated as sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1400-1 (during which term he was summoned to the great council of August 1401), and of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1401-3; and it was as knight of the shire for Cambridgeshire that he was returned to Parliament for the second time, in 1407.5 But his family holdings ensured that at least to some extent he would be active in Norfolk. Earlier in his career he had devoted some attention to Raveningham college, an important foundation with which his father and his father-in-law, Lord Plaiz, had been much concerned, and he assisted in the removal of the college first to Norton Subcourse (Norfolk) and then to Mettingham castle (Suffolk). Something of his standing in East Anglian society is suggested by that of his associates: for instance, his brother-in-law, Constantine, Lord Clifton, owned Buckenham castle and other substantial estates, of which he was a feoffee. He served as trustee of the properties of Joan, Lady Fitzwalter (d.1409); among those given a fiduciary interest in his own estates was another kinsman, Robert, 5th Lord Scales; and in 1413 he was named as supervisor of the will of Maud de Vere, dowager countess of Oxford. It is not known precisely when he joined the circle of Joan de Bohun, countess of Hereford, but he had evidently done so by 1402 and thereafter he became close to the countess by whom he was engaged as a councillor. It seems likely that his son John (the issue of his first marriage) was a member of Joan’s household, for when the young man made his will in 1409 he named her, along with his father, as overseer. Others connected with Countess Joan included Robert Tey, for whom Howard acted as a feoffee, and Sir William Marney*, who asked him to be godfather to one of his sons. It was in association with Marney that Howard became a trustee of the estates of the Essex lawyer, Richard Baynard*. Then, too, he was well known to Sir Thomas Erpingham, formerly chamberlain to Henry IV and steward of the household of Henry V, who after the death of Howard’s son John married his widow, Joan Walton.6

As sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1414-15, Howard became involved in preparations for Henry V’s first expedition to France, and in January 1416 he was pardoned ¹180 charged on his account in consideration of the expenses incurred at that time.

In the summer of 1420 there was grave danger of a breach of the peace at the Suffolk assizes between the followers of Howard and Sir Thomas Kerdeston†, a distant kinsman of his wife, and the prospect of a riot prompted Sir Thomas Erpingham to inform the King’s Council so that both men might be warned to cease ‘alle suche gederyng of strengthe and of meigntenance’. Both Howard and Kerdeston were described as ‘weel ykynde and of gret allyaunce’, able to gain support ‘as weel of lordys of estate as of othre gentilmen as knyghtis and squyers’.7 Howard naturally found no difficulty in securing marriages for his children and grandchild with important gentry families. Young John had been married to the Walton heiress, and now, in 1420, Howard obtained for Robert, his elder son by his second wife, the hand of Margaret Mowbray, daughter of Thomas, duke of Norfolk (d.1399), and sister to John, the Earl Marshal, who was to be acknowledged duke in 1425. One eventual outcome of this match was that part of the inheritance of the great comital houses of Mowbray and Fitzalan became vested in the Howard family in the person of Sir John’s grandson, John†, who was to be summoned to Parliament as Lord Howard in 1470 and created Earl Marshal and duke of Norfolk by Richard III. Meanwhile, in about 1425 Howard secured for his grand daughter Elizabeth (the only child of his son John) the hand of John de Vere, the young earl of Oxford, who had refused a marriage proposed to him by the King’s Council in order to wed her. The price was high: Sir John settled on Elizabeth many of the family properties near Lynn and all of the former de Boys manors; and he assured de Vere that she would inherit the Plaiz and Walton estates of her parents. These settlements were to lead, after his death, to bitter feuds between the earl of Oxford and Lord Howard, which influenced their fateful alignment in the civil wars.8

After his third Parliament, in 1422, Howard became less active than before in local administration, although he continued to be a j.p. in Suffolk and to serve as a commissioner to raise royal loans. In February 1436 he himself was requested for a loan of 100 marks in aid of the duke of York’s expedition to France. A year or so later he set out on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, only to die at Jerusalem on 17 Nov. 1437. His body was apparently brought back for burial next to his second wife, at Stoke Nayland.9

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421 Authors: J. S. Roskell / L. S. Woodger Notes 1. F. Blomefield, Norf. v. 243; CFR, xii. 245. 2. G. Brenan and E.P. Statham, House of Howard, 1-18, 32-33; CP, xi. 501-7; CIPM, xvi. 701; Reg. Chichele, iii. 417. 3.CP, x. 542; CIPM, xvi. 754; CCR, 1389-92, p. 407; Blomefield, ii. 161; v. 235-44; C136/71/4; CPL, v. 60; E179/81/54. 4. E101/40/33 m. 1, 402/20 f. 33d; CPR, 1391-6, pp. 105-6, 381, 507; 1396-9, pp. 525, 529; CCR, 1392-6, p. 485; CFR, xi. 195, 251. 5.PPC, i. 158. 6.VCH Norf. ii. 457; CPR, 1385-9, p. 344; 1391-6, pp. 135, 389; 1405-8, p. 173; 1408-13, p. 274; 1416-22, pp. 391-2; 1422-9, p. 64; CCR, 1399-1402, p. 396; 1402-5, p. 295; 1405-9, p. 446; 1422-9, p. 145; Add. Roll 41523; C139/13/55; Lambeth Pal. Lib. Reg. Arundel, ii. f. 161d; PCC 22 Marche; CFR, xiii. 154, 189. 7.CPR, 1413-16, p. 389; PPC, ii. 272-4; CP, vii. 197-9; Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 386. 8.CP, ix. 610-12; x. 238; CCR, 1422-9, p. 172; CPR, 1416-22, p. 543; Peds. Plea Rolls, 414-15. 9.PPC, iv. 323; CFR, xvii. 1, 45; Blomefield, i. 80-81; PCC 6 Luffenham; Mon. Brasses ed. Mill Stephenson, 471; C139/88/56.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Plaiz. Margaret was born in 0___ 1365; died on 14 Aug 1381 in Norfolkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Alice Tendring in 0___ 1387 in Wiggenhall, Norfolkshire, England. Alice was born on 21 Oct 1365 in Tendring Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England; died on 18 Oct 1426 in Wiggenhall, Norfolkshire, England; was buried in Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Walton. Joan (daughter of John Walton and Elizabeth Butler) was born in ~ 1393; died on 13 Oct 1424 in Wye, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Lady Margaret Mowbray, Duchess of Norfolk about 1411 in Arundel Castle, Arundel, West Sussex, England. Margaret (daughter of Sir Thomas de Mowbray, Knight, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, Duchess of Norfolk) was born about 1387 in Axholme, Lincoln, England; died on 8 Jul 1425. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Katherine Howard, daughter of Robert Howard and sister of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk...

Katherine Howard, daughter of Robert Howard and sister of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk .

His second wife bore him three additional daughters. Catherine Nevill (b. c. 1452/bef. 1473) married Robert Tanfield (b. 1461), son of Robert Tanfield and Elizabeth Brooke, daughter of Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham , and Elizabeth Touchet, born c. 1433, and had children.

Their son William was ancestor of Thomas Jefferson .[4][5]

His daughter Margaret (b.bef. 1476-1506), married John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham .

John and Margaret are the grandparents of Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Wyatt . Daughter Anne (b.bef 1476-1480/81) did not long survive her father.

he married Katherine Howard, daughter of Robert Howard and sister of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk. His second wife bore him three additional daughters. Catherine Nevill (b. c. 1452/bef. 1473) married Robert Tanfield (b. 1461), son of Robert Tanfield and Elizabeth Brooke, daughter of Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham, and Elizabeth Touchet, born c. 1433, and had children. Their son William was ancestor of Thomas Jefferson.[4][5] His daughter Margaret (b.bef. 1476-1506), married John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham. John and Margaret are the grandparents of Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Wyatt. Daughter Anne (b.bef 1476-1480/81) did not long survive her father.

Catherine married Sir Edward Neville, 3rd Baron of Abergavenny on 15 Oct 1448 in Raby, Staindrop, Durham, England. Edward (son of Sir Ralph Neville, Knight, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Lady Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland) was born in 1414 in Raby Castle, Staindrop, Durham, England; died on 18 Oct 1476 in (Raby-Keverstone Castle, Staindrop, Durham, England). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, KG, Earl Marshal (c.1425 – 22 August 1485) was an English nobleman and soldier, and the first Howard Duke of Norfolk. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of King Richard III, with whom he was slain at the Battle of Bosworth.

Family

John Howard, born about 1425, was the son of Sir Robert Howard of Tendring (1398–1436) and Margaret de Mowbray (1391–1459), eldest daughter of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (of the first creation) (1366–1399), by Elizabeth FitzAlan (1366–1425). His paternal grandparents were Sir John Howard of Wiggenhall, Norfolk, and Alice Tendring, daughter of Sir William Tendring.[1][2] Howard was a descendant of English royalty through both sides of his family. On his father's side, Howard was descended from Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, the second son of King John, who had an illegitimate son, named Richard (d.1296), whose daughter, Joan of Cornwall, married Sir John Howard (d. shortly before 23 July 1331).[3] On his mother's side, Howard was descended from Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, the elder son of Edward I of England by his second wife, Margaret of France, and from Edward I's younger brother, Edmund Crouchback.

Career[edit]
Howard succeeded his father in 1436. In his youth he was in the household of John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk (d. 1461), and was drawn into Norfolk's conflicts with William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk. In 1453 he was involved in a lawsuit with Suffolk's wife, Alice Chaucer. He had been elected to Parliament in 1449 and during the 1450s he held several local offices. According to Crawford, he was at one point during this period described as ‘wode as a wilde bullok’. He is said to have been with Lord Lisle in his expedition to Guyenne in 1452, which ended in defeat at Castillon on 17 July 1453.[4][2] He received an official commission from the King on 10 December 1455 and also had been utilised by Henry to promote friendship between Lord Moleyns (his father-in-law) and one John Clopton.[5]

He was a staunch adherent of the House of York during the Wars of the Roses, and was knighted by King Edward IV at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461,[6] and in the same year was appointed Constable of Norwich and Colchester castles, and became part of the royal household as one of the King's carvers, 'the start of a service to the house of York which was to last for the rest of his life'.[4][2]

In 1461 Howard was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and during the years 1462-4 he took part in military campaigns against the Lancastrians. In 1467 he served as deputy for Norfolk as Earl Marshal at 'the most splendid tournament of the age when Antoine, count of La Roche, the Bastard of Burgundy, jousted against the Queen's brother, Lord Scales. In the same year he was one of three ambassadors sent to Burgundy to arrange the marriage of the King's sister, Margaret of York, to Charles, Duke of Burgundy. At about this time he was made a member of the King's council, and in 1468 he was among those who escorted Margaret to Burgundy for her wedding.[4][2] During the 1460s Howard had become involved in the internal politics of St John's Abbey in Colchester, of which he was a patron.[7] He interfered with the abbatial elections at the Abbey following the death of Abbot Ardeley in 1464, helping the Yorkist supporter John Canon to win the election.[7] Howard then appears to have interfered again in support of Abbot Stansted's election following Canon's death in 1464.[7]

Howard's advancement in the King's household continued. By 1467 he was a knight of the body, and in September 1468 was appointed Treasurer of the Royal Household, an office which he held for only two years, until Edward lost the throne in 1470.[4]

According to Crawford, Howard was a wealthy man by 1470, when Edward IV's first reign ended and he went into exile on the continent. In the area around Stoke by Nayland Howard held some sixteen manors, seven of which the King had granted him in 1462. After 1463, he purchased a number of other manors, including six forfeited by John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, the son of his cousin, Elizabeth Howard.[2]

Howard was summoned to Parliament from 15 October 1470 by writs directed to Iohanni Howard de Howard Militi and Iohanni Howard Chivaler, whereby he is held to have become Lord Howard. On 24 April 1472 he was admitted to the Order of the Garter.[4][2][1]

In April 1483 he bore the royal banner at the funeral of King Edward IV.[4] He supported Richard III's usurpation of the throne from King Edward V, and was appointed Lord High Steward. He bore the crown before Richard at his coronation, while his eldest son, the Earl of Surrey, carried the Sword of State. On 28 June 1483 he was created Duke of Norfolk, third creation, the first creation having become extinct on the death of John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, in 1476, and the second creation having been invalidated by Richard's illegitimisation, on 25 June 1483, of Edward IV's second son Richard of York. This left John Howard as heir to the duchy, and his alliance with Richard ensured his acquisition of the title. He was also created Earl Marshal, and Lord Admiral of all England, Ireland, and Aquitaine.

The Duke's principal home was at Stoke-by-Nayland (and later Framlingham Castle) in Suffolk.[8] However, after his second marriage he frequently resided at Ockwells Manor at Cox Green in Bray as it was conveniently close to the royal residence at Windsor Castle.[8]

Marriages and issue[edit]

Effigy of Lady Anne Gorges, Gorges tomb, Wraxall Church
Before 29 September 1442 Howard married Katherine Moleyns (d. 3 November 1465), the daughter of Sir William Moleyns (7 January 1378 – 8 June 1425), styled Lord Moleyns, of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, and his wife, Margery Whalesborough (d. 26 March 1439).[9] There is confusion in some sources between the wives of Sir William Moleyns (d. 8 June 1425) and his eldest son and heir, Sir William Moleyns, who was slain at the siege of Orleans on 8 May 1429, and who married, on 1 May 1423, as his second wife, Anne Whalesborough (died c. 1487), the daughter and co-heir of John Whalesborough, esquire, of Whalesborough, Cornwall.[10][11][2]

By Katherine Moleyns Howard had two sons and four daughters:[12][2]

Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey (1443–21 May 1524), who married firstly, on 30 April 1472, as her second husband, Elizabeth Tilney, by whom he had ten children including Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth Howard, wife of Sir Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire; he married secondly, in 1497, Agnes Tilney, by whom he had eleven children.
Nicholas Howard (died c.1468).
Isabel or Elizabeth Howard, who married Robert Mortimer (d.1485), esquire,[13] of Landmere in Thorpe-le-Soken, slain at Bosworth, by whom she had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married George Guildford, younger son of Sir Richard Guildford.[14][2][15]
Anne Howard, who married Sir Edmund Gorges (d.1512) of Wraxall, by whom she had issue including Sir Thomas Gorges.
Jane Howard (d. 1508), who in 1481 married Sir John Timperley of Hintlesham, Suffolk.
Margaret Howard, who married Sir John Wyndham of Crownthorpe and Felbrigg, Norfolk, by whom she had issue.
Howard married secondly, before 22 January 1467, Margaret (1436–1494), the daughter of Sir John Chedworth and his wife, Margaret Bowett,[16] and widow, firstly of Nicholas Wyfold (1420-1456), Lord Mayor of London, and secondly of Sir John Norreys (1400 – 1 September 1466), Master of the Wardrobe.[17]

By his second wife, Margaret Chedworth, he had one daughter:[17][2]

Katherine Howard (died 17 March 1536), who married John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, by whom she had issue.
Death[edit]
John Howard was slain at the Battle of Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485 along with his friend and patron King Richard.[18] Howard was the commander of the vanguard, and his son, the Earl of Surrey, his lieutenant. Howard was killed when a Lancastrian arrow struck him in the face after the face guard had been torn off his helmet during an earlier altercation with the Earl of Oxford.[19] He was slain prior to King Richard, which had a demoralising effect on the king. Shakespeare relates how, the night before, someone had left John Howard a note attached to his tent warning him that King Richard III, his "master," was going to be double-crossed (which he was):

"Jack of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon, thy master, is bought and sold."[20]

However, this story does not appear prior to Edward Hall in 1548, so the story may well be an apocryphal embellishment of a later era.[21] He was buried in Thetford Priory, but his body seems to have been moved at the Reformation, possibly to the tomb of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk at Framlingham Church. The monumental brass of his first wife Katherine Moleyns can, however, still be seen in Suffolk.

Howard was the great-grandfather of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of King Henry VIII. Thus, through Anne Boleyn, he was the great-great-grandfather of Elizabeth I. His titles were declared forfeit after his death by King Henry VII, but his son, the 1st Earl of Surrey, was later restored as 2nd Duke (the Barony of Howard, however, remains forfeit). His senior descendants, the Dukes of Norfolk, have been Earls Marshal and Premier Peers of England since the 17th century, and male-line descendants hold the Earldoms of Carlisle, Suffolk, Berkshire and Effingham.

Died:
he was slain at the Battle of Bosworth...

John married Katherine Moleyns, Duchess of Norfolk before 1442 in (Tendring, Essex, England). Katherine was born about 1424 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 3 Nov 1465; was buried in Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Sir Robert Tanfield, Lord Bergavenny(Raby-Keverstone Castle, Staindrop, Durham, England). Robert (son of Robert Tanfield and Elizabeth Brooke) was born in ~ 1461 in Gayton, Northamptonshire, England; died before 20 Sep 1504 in Gayton, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Sir John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham in ~ 1475. John (son of Sir Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham and Elizabeth Touchet) was born on 10 Dec 1447 in Cowling, Kent, England; died on 9 Mar 1512 in Cowling, Kent, England; was buried in Colegiate Church, Cobham, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Earl Marshall of England

Notes:

Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, KG, PC, Earl Marshal (1443 – 21 May 1524), styled Earl of Surrey from 1483 to 1485 and again from 1489 to 1514, was the only son of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, by his first wife, Katherine Moleyns. The Duke was the grandfather of both Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Catherine Howard and the great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I. He served four monarchs as a soldier and statesman.

Early life

Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, was born in 1443 at Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, the only surviving son of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, by his first wife, Katherine, the daughter of William Moleyns (d. 8 June 1425) and his wife Margery.[1] He was educated at Thetford Grammar School.[2]

Service under Edward IV

While a youth he entered the service of King Edward IV as a henchman. Howard took the King's side when war broke out in 1469 with the Earl of Warwick, and took sanctuary at Colchester when the King fled to Holland in 1470. Howard rejoined the royal forces at Edward's return to England in 1471, and was severely wounded at the Battle of Barnet on 14 April 1471.[2] He was appointed an esquire of the body in 1473. On 14 January 1478 he was knighted by Edward IV at the marriage of the King's second son, the young Duke of York, and Lady Anne Mowbray (d.1483).[3]

Service under Richard III

After the death of Edward IV on 9 April 1483, Thomas Howard and his father John supported Richard III's usurpation of the throne. Thomas bore the Sword of State at Richard's coronation, and served as steward at the coronation banquet. Both Thomas and his father were granted lands by the new King, and Thomas was also granted an annuity of ¹1000. On 28 June 1483, John Howard was created Duke of Norfolk, while Thomas was created Earl of Surrey.[2] Surrey was also sworn of the Privy Council and invested with the Order of the Garter. In the autumn of that year Norfolk and Surrey suppressed a rebellion against the King by the Duke of Buckingham.[3] Both Howards remained close to King Richard throughout his two-year reign, and fought for him at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, where Surrey was wounded and taken prisoner, and his father killed. Surrey was attainted in the first Parliament of the new King, Henry VII, stripped of his lands, and committed to the Tower of London, where he spent the next three years.

Service under Henry VII

A painting by Mather Brown depicting Norfolk defending his allegiance to Richard III before Henry VII after the Battle of Bosworth Field.
Howard was offered an opportunity to escape during the rebellion of the Earl of Lincoln in 1487, but refused, perhaps thereby convincing Henry VII of his loyalty. In May 1489 Henry restored him to the earldom of Surrey, although most of his lands were withheld, and sent him to quell a rebellion in Yorkshire. Surrey remained in the north as the King's lieutenant until 1499.[3] In 1499 he was recalled to court, and accompanied the King on a state visit to France in the following year. In 1501 he was again appointed a member of the Council, and on 16 June of that year was made Lord High Treasurer. Surrey, Bishop Richard Foxe, the Lord Privy Seal, and Archbishop William Warham, the Lord Chancellor, became the King's 'executive triumvirate'.[3] He was entrusted with a number of diplomatic missions. In 1501 he was involved in the negotiations for Catherine of Aragon's marriage to Arthur, Prince of Wales, and in 1503 conducted Margaret Tudor to Scotland for her wedding to King James IV.[3]

Service under Henry VIII

Surrey was an executor of the will of King Henry VII when the King died on 21 April 1509, and played a prominent role in the coronation of King Henry VIII, in which he served as Earl Marshal. He challenged Thomas Wolsey in an effort to become the new King's first minister, but eventually accepted Wolsey's supremacy. Surrey expected to lead the 1513 expedition to France, but was left behind when the King departed for Calais on 30 June 1513. Shortly thereafter James IV launched an invasion, and Surrey, with the aid of other noblemen and his sons Thomas and Edmund, crushed James's much larger force near Branxton, Northumberland, on 9 September 1513 at the Battle of Flodden. The Scots may have lost as many as 10,000 men, and King James was killed. The victory at Flodden brought Surrey great popular renown and royal rewards. On 1 February 1514 he was created Duke of Norfolk, and his son Thomas was made Earl of Surrey. Both were granted lands and annuities, and the Howard arms were augmented in honour of Flodden with an escutcheon bearing the lion of Scotland pierced through the mouth with an arrow.[3]

Final Years

In the final decade of his life, Norfolk continued his career as a courtier, diplomat and soldier. In 1514 he joined Wolsey and Foxe in negotiating the marriage of Mary Tudor to King Louis XII of France, and escorted her to France for the wedding. On 1 May 1517 he led a private army of 1300 retainers into London to suppress the Evil May Day riots. In May 1521 he presided as Lord High Steward over the trial of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham. According to Head, 'he pronounced the sentence of death with tears streaming down his face'.[3]

By the spring of 1522, Norfolk was almost 80 years of age and in failing health. He withdrew from court, resigned as Lord Treasurer in favour of his son in December of that year, and after attending the opening of Parliament in April 1523, retired to his ducal castle at Framlingham in Suffolk where he died on 21 May 1524. His funeral and burial on 22 June at Thetford Priory were said to have been 'spectacular and enormously expensive, costing over ¹1300 and including a procession of 400 hooded men bearing torches and an elaborate bier surmounted with 100 wax effigies and 700 candles', befitting the richest and most powerful peer in England.[4] After the dissolution of Thetford Priory, the Howard tombs were moved to the Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham. A now-lost monumental brass depicting the 2nd Duke was formerly in the Church of St. Mary at Lambeth.[citation needed]

Marriages and issue

On 30 April 1472 Howard married Elizabeth Tilney, the daughter of Sir Frederick Tilney of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, and widow of Sir Humphrey Bourchier, slain at Barnet, son and heir apparent of Sir John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners.[5] They had issue:

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk[2]
Sir Edward Howard[6]
Lord Edmund Howard, father of Henry VIII's fifth Queen, Catherine Howard[7]
Sir John Howard[2]
Henry Howard[2]
Charles Howard[2]
Henry Howard (the younger)[2]
Richard Howard[2]
Elizabeth Howard, married Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and was mother of Queen Anne Boleyn, and grandmother of Queen Elizabeth.[8]
Muriel Howard (d.1512), married firstly John Grey, Viscount Lisle (d.1504), and secondly Sir Thomas Knyvet[9]
daughter (died young)[10]

Norfolk's first wife died on 4 April 1497, and on 8 November 1497 he married, by dispensation dated 17 August 1497, her cousin, Agnes Tilney, the daughter of Hugh Tilney of Skirbeck and Boston, Lincolnshire and Eleanor, a daughter of Walter Tailboys. They had issue:

William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham[11]
Lord Thomas Howard (1511–1537)[12]
Richard Howard (d.1517)[10]
Dorothy Howard, married Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby[13]
Anne Howard, married John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford[14]
Catherine Howard, married firstly, Rhys ap Gruffydd. Married secondly, Henry Daubeney, 1st Earl of Bridgewater.
Margaret Howard (d. 1536), married Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex.

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Earl of Surrey. Earl Marshall of England. The Complete Peerage vol.XIIpI,p.513. 1 May 1484 and 8 Dec 1484 Richard III directed John, Duke of Suffolk; Thomas, Earl of Surrey; John, Lord Fitzwalter; Sir Henry Grey; Sir Edmund Bedingfield; Sir William Boleyn; William Paston; Ralph Shelton; Richard Southwell; John Paston; Robert Clere and others to array men at arms in Norfolk, no doubt readying for an assault by the Lancastrians. Fought on the wrong side at the battle of Bosworth, his father was killed and was taken prisoner by Henry VII, attainted, and placed in the Tower of London. Thomas Howard, stripped of his lands and titles, remained in prison for 3 years. Was released 1489. Henry VII needed a good general to fight the Scots. Thomas, who had been trained as a soldier all his life and was a good general, was released from prison and his title Earl of Surrey, which he had received in 1483, was restored. But his lands and the dukedom were not. He was entrusted by Henry VII with the care of the northern borders.

As the King's lieutenant of the north, Surrey suppressed the English rebels and advanced against the King of Scots seizing several castles along the border. The King of Scots refused to fight Surrey and disbanded his army.

As part of the peace settlement Henry VII's daughter Margaret married James, King of Scotland. Surrey and his wife escorted Margaret to Scotland to seal the Anglo-Scots peace by marrying James IV, and the Earl's entire family went along.

On 25 Jun 1501 Surrey was confirmed as Lord Treasurer and, as one of the great officers of state, became one of the executive triunvirate of Henry's council, along with Richard Fox, lord privy seal, and William Warham. The Earl was constantly at court and in council, serving as the only prominent titled noble among Henry VII's heavily ecclesiastical inner circle.

Surrey, his son Thomas, Fox and several others were given charge of negotiations which led to a treaty in 1508 binding Charles of Burgundy, grandson of the Emperor Maximilian, to wed Henry's younger daughter Mary.

At the death of Henry VII in Apr 1509 Surrey was named an executor of the King's will and at the burial stood by the grave with the other officials of state and household who broke their staves of office and cast them down. At the coronation of Henry VIII and Catalina de Aragon, Surrey served as Earl Marshal. His son Sir Thomas was also involved in the passing of the crown, being paid five hundred marks along with Sir John Carre on 24 May for his services in Henry VII's funeral and Henry VIII's coronation.

For the Howards, the transition from Henry VII to his son was far smoother than that from Richard III to the first Tudor. Surrey and his sons were anxious to prove their loyalty and usefulness. The dukedom of Norfolk still stood as the last great reward to be earned; the Howards were prepared to study the new King Henry VIII, to judge how best to serve him, and to win reward for that service. The Earl of Surrey, as treasurer, has been accused of using his position to encourage the King to lavish expenditure and wasteful pageantry, dissipating the resources of the crown in order to worm the Howard family into Henry's closest circle.

In Nov 1509, Surrey, Thomas and Edmund Howard and Thomas Boleyn obtained the lease of the lands of Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir John Grey, viscount Lisle. Lisle had died in 1504, but had been married to Surrey's daughter Muriel, who later wed Thomas Knyvett. Thus the lands of this minor niece were retained in Howard hands pending her marriage.

Although an influential member of Henry VIII’s privy council, he was gradually forced to relinquish much of his power to the ascending Thomas Wolsey. Norfolk was no courtier and didn't play much of a role in the affairs of state after that. Cardinal Wolsey held the power then and saw to it that men like Norfolk didn't gain too much influence with the King. Wolsey was soon seeking an independent position on the council and encouraging Henry to seek martial glory in France. The Howards favored action against a nearer and more pressing enemy, the Scots.

In the summer of 1511, Thomas and Edward Howard were sent out to engage Andrew Barton, a favorite sea captain of James IV. Barton, sailing with letters of marque against Portugal, had taken several English ships on the pretext that they were carrying Portuguese goods. Henry was willing to view Barton as a pirate; without complaining to James, the King turned the Howards loose to capture him. In the ensuing fight, a full-scale sea battle in the Channel, Barton was killed and his two ships, captured. James was angry enough to fight had England pursued the matter but, despite Surrey's prodding, Henry still thought it more rewarding to attack France. Wolsey had persuaded the King to risk greater dangers to seek a greater prize. Surrey may have overplayed his hand in pushing Henry to follow up the defeat of Barton with further action against the Scots, for on 30 Sep Wolsey wrote to Fox that the Earl had been so discountenanced by his latest meeting with Henry that he had retired from court, leaving the field to the anti-French party. Nonetheless, the Howards continued their stirrings against Scotland, for Wolsey complained that Edward Howard used his closeness with Henry to urge the King to war with James.

By Nov 1511 Surrey returned to court, ready to implement the king's chosen policy.

Early in his reign Henry VIII crossed the Channel to France in an attempt to revive the English claim to the French throne. Fortunately he left the Earl of Surrey in England. The French campaign was a disaster. While Henry VIII was in France, King James of Scotland invaded England with an army 30,000. Surrey rushed to the defense with an army of about 20,000. The battle of Flodden was a disaster for James and the Scots. Over 10,000 of his men were killed, including many Scottish peers. King James died only a few feet from Surrey.

Although King Henry was most likely jealous of Surrey's success and his own failure, he restored the titles of Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshall to him. Surrey was the toast of England. And the Scottish border was secure for many years.

In 1517 Norfolk put down a revolt by the London apprentices. Afterward he persuaded Henry not to treat them harshly.

When King Henry returned to France for The Field of the Cloth of Gold he left Norfolk at home in charge of the country. He served as guardian of the realm during Henry’s absence in 1520. In 1521, acting as Lord High Steward, he was compelled to sentence his friend Edward Stafford, 3° Duke of Buckingham, to death.

In 1522 Norfolk was sent as Ambassador to the Holy Roman Emperor, Carlos V who honored him by making his eldest son Admiral of the Imperial Dominions.


He died in 1524 in the great castle of Framlingham which had once been the seat of the Mowbray dukes of Norfolk and before that had been home to the Bigods, Earls for Norfolk during the Norman era. He was about 80.

Died:
Framlingham Castle is a castle in the market town of Framlingham in Suffolk in England. An early motte and bailey or ringwork Norman castle was built on the Framlingham site by 1148, but this was destroyed by Henry II of England in the aftermath of the revolt of 1173-4. Its replacement, constructed by Roger Bigod, the Earl of Norfolk, was unusual for the time in having no central keep, but instead using a curtain wall with thirteen mural towers to defend the centre of the castle. Despite this, the castle was successfully taken by King John in 1216 after a short siege. By the end of the 13th century, Framlingham had become a luxurious home, surrounded by extensive parkland used for hunting.

During the 15th and 16th centuries Framlingham was at the heart of the estates of the powerful Mowbray and Howard families. Two artificial meres were built around the castle, which was expanded in fashionable brick. With a large, wealthy household to maintain, the castle purchased supplies from across England and brought in luxury goods from international markets. Extensive pleasure gardens were built within the castle and older parts redesigned to allow visitors to enjoy the resulting views. By the end of the 16th century, however, the castle fell into disrepair and after the final Howard owner, Theophilus, entered into financial difficulties the castle and the surrounding estates were sold off.

Framlingham Castle was given to Pembroke College as a philanthropic gesture in 1636, after which the internal buildings were taken down to make way for the construction of a poorhouse within the site. The castle was used in this way until 1839 when the facility was closed; the castle was then used as a drill hall and as a county court. In 1913, Pembroke College donated Framlingham to the Commissioner of Works. During the Second World War, Framlingham Castle was used by the British military as part of the regional defences against a potential German invasion. Today, Framlingham Castle is a scheduled monument and a grade I listed building, owned by English Heritage and run as a tourist attraction.

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Thomas married Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey on 30 Apr 1472 in Norfolkshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Frederick Tilney and Elizabeth Cheney) was born before 1445 in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolkshire, England; died on 4 Apr 1497 in (Norfolkshire, England); was buried on 31 May 1545 in Thetford Priory, Thetford, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Stavely(Gayton, Northamptonshire, England). Elizabeth was born about 1489 in Gayton, Northamptonshire, England; died about 1545 in Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham (died 19 July 1529) was a Tudor baron in England.

Thomas Brooke was the son and heir of Sir John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham (-1512) and Margaret Neville (-1506).,[1] daughter of Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny, and his second wife, Catherine Howard.

Career[edit]
Thomas took part in the wars with France and was at the Siege of Tournay in 1513, and fought at the Battle of the Spurs on 16 August 1513.

He was made Knight Banneret by King Henry VIII in 1514, and attended the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520.

He was summoned to Parliament from 1514 to 1523.

In 1521 he was one of the twelve Barons for the trial of the Duke of Buckingham.[2]

Family[edit]
Thomas Brooke married Dorothy Heydon, daughter of Sir Henry Heydon of Baconsthorpe and Anne, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn and Anne Hoo.[3] They had seven sons and six daughters. His daughter, Elizabeth Brooke, married Sir Thomas Wyatt.

He was twice widowed. He married secondly Elizabeth Fowthewel[4] widow of Robert Southwell[5] and thirdly Elizabeth Hart, and had no issue from them.[6]

Thomas Brooke died on 19 July 1529 and was buried at St Mary Magdalene New Churchyard, Cobham, Kent.

end of biography

Buried:
was buried at St Mary Magdalene New Churchyard...

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Heydon. Dorothy (daughter of Sir Henry Heydon and Anne Boleyn) was born in 1470; died on 29 Mar 1566 in Norfolk, Norfolkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Joyce Colepepper in 1504. Joyce was born in 0___ 1480 in Oxenbridge, Tonbridge, Kent, England; died in 0___ 1531. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Boleyn, KG, KB, 1st Earl of Wiltshire about 1500 in Bickling, Norfolk, England. Thomas (son of Sir William Boleyn and Lady Margaret Butler) was born in 1477 in Hever Castle, Hever, Kent, England; died on 12 Mar 1539 in Hever, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
in childbirth

Muriel married Sir Thomas Knyvet, Knight before 1510 in Norfolkshire, England. Thomas (son of Sir Edmund Knyvett and Eleanor Tyrrell) was born in 0___ 1482 in Buckenham, Norfolkshire, England; died on 10 Aug 1512 in St. Mathieu, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]