Katherine married H.M. Henry VIII (Tudor), King of England on 28 July 1540 in Oatlands Palace, Surrey, England. Henry (son of Henry VII (Tudor), King of England and Princess Elizabeth (Plantagenet), of York) was born on 28 June 1491 in Greenwich, Kent, England; was christened in in Church of the Observant Friars, Greenwich, Kent, England; died on 28 Jan. 1547 in Whitehall Palace, London, Middlesex, England; was buried on 16 Feb. 1547 in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Joyce Culpeper. Joyce (daughter of Sir Richard Culpeper) was born circa 1484; died after 1527. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: Thetford Grammar School, Thetford, Norfolk, England
• Office: 1503–4; Lord High Steward
• Office: 1483–84; Steward of the Household
• Office: 1476; Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk
• Office: 1478; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Norfolk
• Decoration: 18 Jan. 1477/78; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Decoration: June 1483; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Office: June 1483; Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
• Hereditary Title: 28 June 1483; 1st Earl of Surrey [E., 1483]
• Office: 1501; Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
• Office: 1489–1509; Chief Justice in Eyre North of Trent
• Office: 23–24 June 1509; Marshal of England
• Office: 10 July 1510; Earl Marshal of England [for life]
• Office: July 1513; Lieutenant-General in the North
• Hereditary Title: 1 Feb. 1513/14; 1st Duke of Norfolk [E., 1514]
• Office: 29 May 1514; Great Chamberlain
• Office: 31 May – 18 July 1520; Guardian of England
• Office: 13 May 1521; Lord High Steward
• Office: June 1501 – 1522; Lord High Treasurer

Notes:

"He is said to have had 16 children—8 sons and 2 daughters by the first wife, and 2 sons and 4 daughters by the second."

Office:
For the trial of Edward (Sutton), Lord Dudley

Decoration:
Degraded from the Garter 1485; restored circa 1491.

Hereditary Title:
By girding of the sword. In tail male (Cal. Charter Rolls, volume vi, page 258). The day on which his father was created Duke of Norfolk.

Office:
For the coronation of Henry VIII

Office:
Where he gained (9 September) the famous victory over the Scots at Flodden Field

Hereditary Title:
The 1514 creation was afforded the precedency of the 1397 creation.

He resigned on the same day the dignity of Earl of Surrey in favour of his eldest son, for his son's life.

Thomas is generally considered to have been the 2nd Duke of Norfolk as though the 1514 creation were a restoration of the 1483 creation.

Office:
During a minority

Office:
During the King's absence in France

Office:
For the trial of his sons's father-in-law, the Duke of Buckingham

Buried:
A full account of the ceremony is in College of Arms MS. WB., folios 82–90. A long account is printed in Martin's Thetford, Appendix 38.

"It is supposed that his remains were removed at the Dissolution, and some say that the brasses were moved to the Howard chapel at Lambeth (Surrey Arch. Coll., vol. ix, p. 397). Will, P.C.C., 23 Bofelde (abstract Idem, vol. ix, p. 427)."

Thomas married Elizabeth Tilney on 30 April 1472. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Frederick Tylney and Elizabeth Cheney) died on 4 April 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: Countess of Surrey [courtesy title]

Other Events:

• Residence: Aylesford, Kent, England

Other Events:

• Office: 1455; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Norfolk
• Office: 1461; Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk
• Decoration: 29 March 1461, Towton, Yorkshire, England; Knighthood
• Office: 1467; Sheriff of Oxfordshire
• Hereditary Title: by 15 Oct. 1470; Lord Howard [E., 1470]
• Decoration: 24 April 1472; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Office: 1483; Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
• Office: 1483; Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Hereditary Title: 28 June 1483; 1st Duke of Norfolk [E., 1483]
• Hereditary Title: 28 June 1483; Earl Marshal of England [E., 1483]
• Office: July 1483; Admiral of England, Ireland, and Aquitaine
• Office: 30 June – 7 July 1483; High Steward

Notes:

He succeeded his father in 1436.

Office:
As to his election, see Paston Letters, volume i, pages 337, 340, 341. It was presumably this John Howard who was M.P. for Suffolk in 1449 and 1467.

Decoration:
"He was a zealous Yorkist, and was knighted by Edward IV at the battle of Towton, 29 Mar. 1461. ..."

Hereditary Title:
"He was summoned to Parliament from 15 Oct. (1470) 49 Hen. VI to 15 Nov. (1482) 22 Edw. IV, by writs directed Johanni Howard de Howard, Militi, and Johanni Howard, Chivaler, whereby he is held to have become Lord Howard."

"He is so referred to in contemporary documents. But it should be noted that he was so styled seven months before he was summoned to Parliament, which suggests that the writ [was] issued in virtue of some other form of creation."

Hereditary Title:
"By this creation Richard III either ignored that of Edward IV or tacitly acknowledged that his nephew was dead."

See Cal. Charter Rolls, volume vi, page 258. On the same day his son and heir Thomas Howard was created Earl of Surrey, and William, Viscount Berkeley, the other coheir of the great Mowbray inheritance, was created Earl of Nottingham.

Hereditary Title:
See Cal. Patent Rolls, 1476–85, page 358; Rymer, volume xii, page 190. He received the office of Marshal of England, and the name, title, and honour of Earl Marshal of England, to him and the heirs male of his body, which John, late Duke of Norfolk, held and which came into the King's hand on his death sine prole mascula: bearing a gold rod (as granted by Richard II), with a fee of £20 out of the fee farm of Ipswich.

Office:
For the Coronation of Richard III. See Cal. Patent Rolls, 1476–85, page 360; Rymer, volume xii, page 191.

Buried:
His body was later moved to Thetford, Norfolk, England.

John married Catherine de Moleyns. Catherine died on 3 Nov. 1465 in Stoke Neyland, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There is some confusion as to Catherine's parentage.

Although in some older publications, such as Collins, she is stated to have been the daughter of Sir Richard de Moleyns by Eleanor Beaumont, she was more probably, in view of chronology and her memorial brass, the daughter of their son Sir William de Moleyns (who died 8 June 1425) by his wife Margery.

Sir William and Margery married before Michaelmas 1405, according to Cokayne (Complete Peerage, volume IX, page 41), citing the account of the steward of the household of William de Moleyns, son and heir of Sir Richard de Moleyns, Michaelmas 1401 to Michaelmas 1402 [sic], Exch., K.R., Accts., 512/7. It is unclear if "1405" is correct given the citation; the History of Parliament, citing Cokayne, gives the marriage as having occurred before Michaelmas 1401. To have been a daughter of Sir William and Margery, Catherine would need to have been born between about 1401 and 1425 (the year of Sir William's death). Since Catherine's husband, John Howard (later created Duke of Norfolk), was probably born about 1425, this chronology is plausible, since we might expect Catherine not to have been much older than her husband. From the heraldic brass, it is thought that Margery may have been a Whalesborough of Cornwall, although the History of Parliament simply infers, from her having had a reversionary interest in certain Cornish estates, that she may have been related to John Treverbyn.

Sir William's and Margery's son and heir, William, baptised 8 December 1405, married Anne Whalesborough on 1 May 1423 at Ewelme (Complete Peerage, volume 9, page 42). Presumably those who think that William's mother, Margery, may have been a Whalesborough are suggesting that William married a cousin of some degree. It seems possible, in view of chronology, that Catherine could have been the daughter of William and Anne if she were born not long after their marriage, in which case Catherine's mother would indeed have been a Whalesborough, but not Margery. She may then have been a sister of Eleanor, the wife of Sir Robert Hungerford who was summoned to Parliament as Lord Moleyns. Robert's being summoned as Lord Moleyns in January 1444/45 might suggest that his wife had no surviving siblings, although she is described as a co-heir of her father in Complete Peerage, and the rules of peerage inheritance were not consistent (as the lack of summons for earlier generations of the Moleyns family shows).

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Died:
See Paston Letters, volume iii, page 486; Weever, page 506, who states erroneously that she died in 1452. Her brass remains there. A drawing of her heraldic gravestone is in Cott. MS., Jul., C vii, folio 237 (Coll. of Nicholas Charles), and a description in Collins's Peerage, volume i, pages 63, 64.

Other Events:

• Residence: Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England

Frederick married Elizabeth Cheney. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]