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1. Howard, Thomas
   1. Tilney, Elizabeth
      1. Howard, Thomas III
         1. of York, Anne of Surrey
            1. Howard, Margaret
            2. Howard, Thomas
            3. Howard, Anne
            4. Howard, Edward
            5. de Howard, George
            6. Howard, John
            7. Howard, Cicely
            8. Howard, Henry
            9. Howard, Elizabeth
         2. Stafford, Elizabeth
            1. Howard, Katherine
            2. Howard, Henry
            3. Howard, Mary
            4. Howard, Thomas
            5. Howard, Margaret Hewer
            6. Howard, Catherine
      2. Howard, Edward
      3. Howard, Elizabeth
      4. Howard, Henry
      5. Howard, John
      6. Howard, Charles
      7. Howard, Edmund
      8. Howard, Muriel
      9. Howard, Richard

Ancestors

Howard, Thomas III
*1473
+1554-08-25

Howard, Thomas
*1443
+1524-05-21

Howard, John
*1430
+1485-08-22

Howard, Robert
*1385
+1437

Mowbray, Margaret *1391 +before 1459-10-18

Moleyns, Katherine
*1424
+1465-11-03

Moleyns, William
*1405-12-08
+1429-05-08

Whalesborough, Anne
*
+1468-02-28

Tilney, Elizabeth
*1462
+1497

Tilney, Frederick
*1410
+...

Tilney, Philip
*about 1367
+about 1406

de Thorpe, Isabel
*1389
+1436

Cheney, Elizabeth
*1420
+1473-09-25

Cheney, Lawrence
*1393
+1461-12-30

Cokayne, Elizabeth
*1395
+1422

Source References

1. LZK5-NLP FamilySearch.org
2. Howard Pedigree Cracrofts Peerage - see Thomas 3rd Duke of Norfolk
3. Wikisource: Dictionary of National Biography - Thomas Howard II
   1. • Source text:

        HOWARD, THOMAS II, Earl of Surrey and third Duke of Norfolk of the Howard house (1473–1554), warrior and statesman, was eldest son of Thomas Howard I [q. v.] by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Frederick Tilney of Ashwellthorpe Hall, Norfolk. He was born in 1473, and, as a sign of the close alliance between Richard III and the Howard family, was betrothed in 1484 to the Lady Anne (born at Westminster 2 Nov. 1475), third daughter of Edward IV (Buck, History of Richard III, p. 574). The lady had been betrothed by her father by treaty dated 5 Aug. 1480 to Philip, son of Maximilian, archduke of Austria, but Edward IV's death had brought the scheme to nothing. After the overthrow of Richard, despite the change in the fortunes of the Howards, Lord Thomas renewed his claim to the hand of the Lady Anne, who was in constant attendance on her sister, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry VII permitted the marriage to take place in 1495 (the marriage settlement is given by Madox, Formulare Anglicanum, pp. 109-10). The queen settled upon the bride an annuity of 120l. (confirmed by acts of parliament 11 and 12 Hen. VII), and the marriage took place in Westminster Abbey on 4 Feb. 1495. Howard subsequently served in the north under his father, by whom he was knighted in 1498. In 1511 he joined his younger brother, Edward [q. v.], the lord admiral, as captain of a ship in his encounter with the Scottish pirate, Andrew Barton [q. v.] In May 1512 he was made lieutenant-general of the army which was sent to Spain under the command of the Marquis of Dorset, with the intention of joining the forces of Ferdinand for the invasion of Guienne. The troops, ill supplied with food, grew weary of waiting for Ferdinand and insisted upon returning home, in spite of Howard's efforts to persuade them to remain (Brewer, Calendar, i. No. 3451). Henry VIII invaded France next year. Sir Edward Howard fell in a naval engagement in March, and on 2 May 1513 Lord Thomas was appointed lord admiral in his stead. He was not, however, called upon to serve at sea, but fought under his father as captain of the vanguard at the battle of Flodden Field (September 1513), where he sent a message to the Scottish king that he had come to give him satisfaction for the death of Andrew Barton.

        When his father was created Duke of Norfolk on 1 Feb. 1514, Lord Thomas Howard was created Earl of Surrey. In politics he joined with his father in opposing Wolsey, and was consoled, like his father, for the failure of his opposition to the French alliance by being sent in September 1514 to escort the Princess Mary to France. But Surrey did not see the wisdom of abandoning his opposition to Wolsey so soon as his father. There were stormy scenes sometimes in the council chamber, and on 31 May 1516 we are told that Surrey 'was put out, whatever that may mean' (Lodge, Illustrations, i. 21). His wife Anne died of consumption probably in the winter of 1512-13, and about Easter 1513 he married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Edward Stafford, duke of Buckingham, by Lady Elinor Percy, daughter of the Earl of Northumberland. The girl, who was little more than fifteen, had already been betrothed to her father's ward, Richard Neville, afterwards fourth earl of Westmorland. The alliance with such families as those of Buckingham and Northumberland strengthened in Surrey the natural objection which he felt to Wolsey's power, and to the policy of depressing the old nobility, but the execution of Buckingham in 1521 taught him a lesson of prudence. When the trial of Buckingham took place, Surrey was in Ireland as lord-lieutenant, and it was said that he had been sent thither of set purpose that he might be out of the way when the nobles received that severe caution. In July 1520 Surrey entered upon the thankless task of endeavouring to keep Ireland in order. His letters contain accounts of attempts to pacify the rival factions of Kildare and Ormonde, and are full of demands for more money and troops.

        At the end of 1521 Surrey was recalled from Ireland to take command of the English fleet in naval operations against France. His ships were ill-provisioned, and his warfare consisted in a series of raids upon the French coast for the purpose of inflicting all the damage possible. In July 1522 he burned Morlaix, in September laid waste the country round Boulogne, and spread devastation on every side, till the winter brought back the fleet to England. When, in December 1522, his father resigned the office of high treasurer, it was bestowed on Surrey, whose services next year were required on the Scottish border. The Duke of Albany, acting in the interests of France, was raising a party in Scotland, and threatened to cripple England in its military undertakings abroad. Surrey was made warden general of the marches, and was sent to teach Scotland a lesson. He carried out the same brutal policy of devastation as he had used in France, and reduced the Scottish border to a desert. But he did not venture to march on Edinburgh, and Albany found means to reach Scotland from France and gather an army, with which he laid siege to Wark Castle on 1 Nov.; but, when he heard that Surrey was advancing to its relief, he ignominiously retreated. This was felt to be a great victory for Surrey, and Skelton represented the popular opinion in his poem, 'How the Duke of Albany, like a cowardly knight, ran away.'

        On 21 May 1524 Surrey, by his father's death, succeeded as Duke of Norfolk, but was still employed in watching Scotland and in negotiating with the queen regent, Margaret. In 1525 he was allowed to return to his house at Kenninghall, Norfolk, where, however, his services were soon needed to quell an insurrection which broke out at Lavenham and Sudbury against the loan which was necessitated by the expenses of the French war (Hall, Chronicle, p.700). Norfolk's tact in dealing with the insurgents was successful, but the demand for money was withdrawn. Want of supplies meant that peace was necessary, and in August Norfolk was appointed commissioner to treat for peace with France. When the war was over, the great question which occupied English politics was that of the king's divorce. Norfolk was entirely on the king's side, and waited with growing satisfaction for the course of events to bring about Wolsey's fall. He and the Duke of Suffolk did all they could to increase the king's anger against Wolsey, and enjoyed their triumph when they were commissioned to demand from him the great seal. Norfolk was Wolsey's implacable enemy, and would be content with nothing short of his entire ruin. He presided over the privy council, and hoped to rise to the eminence from which Wolsey had fallen. He devised the plan of sending Wolsey to his diocese of York, and did not rest till he had gathered evidence which raised the king's suspicions and led to Wolsey's summons to London and his death on the journey.

        Norfolk hoped to fill Wolsey's place, but he was entirely destitute of Wolsey's genius. He could only become the king's tool in his dishonourable purposes. In 1529 he signed the letter to the pope which threatened him with the loss of his supremacy in England if he refused the king's divorce. He acquiesced in all the subsequent proceedings, and waxed fat on the spoils of the monasteries. He was chief adviser of his niece, Anne Boleyn, but followed the fashion of the time in presiding at her trial and arranging for her execution. But, after all his subservience, Thomas Cromwell proved a more useful man than himself. A fruitless embassy to France in 1533, for the purpose of winning Francis I to side with Henry, showed that Norfolk was entirely destitute of Wolsey's diplomatic skill. But there were some points of domestic policy for which he was necessary. He was created earl marshal in 1533, and presided over the trial of Lord Dacre, who, strange to say, was acquitted. In the suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace, Norfolk alternately cajoled and threatened the insurgents till their forces melted away, and he could with safety undertake the work of official butchery. He held the office of lord president of the council of the north from April 1537 till October 1538, when he could boast that the rebellion had been avenged by a course of merciless punishment.

         

      • Citation:

        [Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 272-5; Lodge's Portraits, vol. ii.; Doyle's Official Baronage, ii. 591-594; Collins's Peerage, p. 44, &c.; Howard's Memorials of the Howards; Hawes and Loder's Hist. of Framlingham; Brewer and Gairdner's Letters and Papers; State Papers of Hen. VIII; Bergenroth's Spanish Calendar; Brown's Venetian Calendar; Hamilton's Irish Calendar, i. 2-8; Brewer's Calendar of Carew MSS. vol. i.; Turnbull's Calendar of the Reign of Mary; Haynes's Burghley Papers; Nott's Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Appendix; Burnet's Hist. of the Reformation; Foxe's Acts and Monuments; Herbert's Reign of Henry VIII; Godwin's Reign of Mary; Lodge's Illustr. of British History, vol. i.; Hall's Chronicle; Cavendish's Life of Wolsey; State Trials, i. 451, &c.; Blomefield's Hist. of Norfolk, iii. 165-6; Dallaway and Cartwright's Hist. of Sussex, vol. ii. pt. ii. pp. 198-205; Sadleir's State Papers, vol. i.; Froude's Hist. of England; Sanford and Townsend's Great Governing Families of Eng

4. Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors - Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
   1. • Source text:

        Sir Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
        Last Edited 11 Mar 2014
        M, #16395, b. 1473, d. 25 August 1554
        Father Sir Thomas Howard, Earl Marshal of England, 2nd Duke Norfolk, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk, Lord High Treasurer12,7,13,11 b. 1443, d. 21 May 1524
        Mother Elizabeth Tilney12,7,13,11 b. c 1445, d. 4 Apr 1497
        Sir Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey Lord Howard, Earl Marshal of England, Lord High Admiral, Captain of the Vanguard, Chief Governor of Ireland, Lord High Treasurer.2 He was born in 1473. He married Anne Plantagenet, daughter of Edward IV Plantagenet, King of England, 4th Duke of York, 7th Earl of March, 9th Earl of Ulster and Elizabeth Wydeville, on 4 February 1495 at Greenwich, Kent, England; They had 4 children (including 1 son, Thomas (d. 3 August 1508)).3,4,7,8,11 Sir Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey married Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of Sir Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke Buckingham, 8th Earl & 9th Lord of Stafford, Earl of Hereford & Northampton, Constable of England and Eleanor Percy, before 8 January 1513; They had 2 sons (Sir Henry, Earl of Surrey; & Thomas) and 3 daughters (Muriel; Catherine; & Mary, wife of Sir Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond & Somerset, Earl of Nottingham).14,15,6,4,5,7,8,9,10,11 Sir Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey died on 25 August 1554 at Kenninghall, Norfolk, England.14,3,4,7,11 He was buried on 2 October 1554 at Framlingham, Norfolk, England; Age 80.14,3,4,7
        Family 1
        Anne Plantagenet b. 2 Nov 1475, d. 23 Nov 1511
        Childred - 4 all died young
        Thomas Howard d. 1508

        Family 2
        Elizabeth Stafford b. c 1497, d. 30 Nov 1558
        Children
        Muriel Howard
        Catherine Howard
        Mary Howard16,17,3,6,8,10 d. 9 Dec 1557
        Sir Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey+ b. bt 1516 - 1518, d. 19 Jan 1547
        Sir Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon+18 b. c 1520, d. 28 Jan 1582

        additional citations:
        [S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. X, p. 830.
        [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 728-730.
        [S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VI, p. 583-584.

      • Citation:

        Citations
        [S4676] Unknown author, Burke's Peerage (1963), p. lxiv, 1806.
        [S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. IX, p. 615-620.
        [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 800-801.
        [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 415-416.
        [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 87.
        [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 236.
        [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 416-417.
        [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 337.
        [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 24.
        [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 216.
        [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 465.
        [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 414-415.
        [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 335-336.
        [S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. IX, p. 619.
        [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 6

         

5. Wikipedia Thomas Howard
   1. • Source text:

        "Webster's Biographical Dictionary" (Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1980), p. 733. Thomas II. 1473-1554. 3d Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey; son of 2d duke; m. (1495) Edward IV's daughter Anne (1475-1512), thus becoming brother-in-law of Henry VII; m. (1513) Elizabeth (d. 1558), daughter of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham; lord high admiral (1513); led vanguard of English at Flodden; lord lieutenant of Ireland (1520-21); raided Boulogne (1522) and south of Scotland; Roman Catholic; headed party hostile to Wolsey; president of privy council (1529); as lord steward presided at trial of Anne Boleyn, his niece; punished rebels of Pilgrimage of Grace (1536); arrested Thomas Cromwell (1540); led English army in Scotland (1542-44); lost court influence upon execution of Catherine Howard, the second niece of his to be wife of Henry VIII; imprisoned throughout reign of Edward VI under condemnation as accessory to treason of his son Henry, Earl of Surrey; released and restored on accession of Queen Mary.

6. Thomas Howard, "Find A Grave Index"
   1. • Page: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK9-5YB1 : 29 May 2020), Thomas Howard, 1554; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
      • Source text:

        3rd Duke of Norfolk.

         

         

      • Citation:

        Name Thomas Howard
        Death or Burial Date 1554
        Death or Burial Place Framlingham, Suffolk Coastal District, Suffolk, England
        Death or Burial Place (Original) Framlingham, Suffolk Coastal District, Suffolk, England
        Cemetery St Michael Churchyard
        Death Date 25 Aug 1554
        Event Type Burial
        Photograph Included Y
        Note Contains Biography