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Howard family (English aristocracy)
- Anne BoleynQueen of England from 1533 to 1536
- Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of WiltshireOn the 3rd of April 1538, Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, died in the English countryside. She had outlived two of her three surviving children by barely two years. Those two children were Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, and George…
- George Boleyn, Viscount RochfordGeorge Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, stepped onto Tower Hill on the morning of the 17th of May 1536 to face the axe. The crowd watching was, by all accounts, almost completely silent. That silence was remarkable. State executions in Tudor…
- Mary BoleynMary Boleyn spent most of her life in the shadow of her famous sister, yet her own story cuts just as deep. Born around 1499, most likely at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, she grew up at Hever Castle in Kent, the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, a…
- Catherine HowardCatherine Howard was Queen of England for barely sixteen months, and she was probably still a teenager when the axe fell on the 13th of February 1542. She had been Henry VIII's fifth wife. She was his youngest. And she was dead before most…
- Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of SurreyElizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey, died on the 4th of April 1497 without knowing that two of her granddaughters would one day become queens of England. She did not live to see the reign of Henry VIII, yet the family tree she helped…
- Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of NorfolkThomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, was born in 1443 at Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, and he spent more than eight decades navigating the most dangerous game in England: royal favour. Four different kings sat on the throne during his…
- Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of NorfolkThomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was born on the 10th of March 1473 and died on the 25th of August 1554, outliving four of the six wives of King Henry VIII and surviving a reign that killed nearly everyone who rose as high as he did. He…
- John Howard, 1st Duke of NorfolkJohn Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, rode into the Battle of Bosworth Field on the 22nd of August 1485 knowing something was wrong. The night before, according to a story later recorded, someone had pinned a note to his tent. It read: "Jack…
- Howard familyThe Howard family has held the title of Duke of Norfolk continuously since the 28th of June 1483, when King Richard III created John Howard the first duke of a new creation. That single act launched a dynasty that would touch nearly every…