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.

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

1. Thomas (Howard), 2nd Duke of Norfolk was born in 1443 in Stoke Neyland, Suffolk, England; died on 21 May 1524 in Framlingham Castle, Framlingham, Suffolk, England; was buried on 26 June 1524 in Thetford Abbey, Thetford, Norfolk, England.
2. Lady Isabel Howard died shortly before 14 June 1506.

John married Margaret Chedworth before 22 Jan. 1467. Margaret (daughter of Sir John Chedworth) died in 1494; was buried in Stoke Neyland, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Stoke Neyland, Suffolk, England

Robert married Lady Margaret Mowbray. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 1st Duke of Norfolk [E., 1397]
• Hereditary Title: Earl of Norfolk [E., 1312]
• Decoration: circa 1383; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Hereditary Title: 10 Feb. 1382/83; Lord Mowbray
• Hereditary Title: 10 Feb. 1382/83; Lord Segrave
• Hereditary Title: 12 Feb. 1382/83; 1st Earl of Nottingham [E., 1383]
• Office: 30 June 1385; Marshal of England
• Hereditary Title: 12 Jan. 1385/86; Earl Marshal of England [E., 1386]
• Office: 1389; Keeper of Berwick and Roxburgh
• Office: 1389; Warden of the East March
• Office: 1 June 1391; Captain of Calais
• Office: 6 Nov. 1392; King's Lieutenant in Calais, Picardy, Flanders, and Artois

Notes:

"In Oct. 1382, as the King's kinsman and young knight, he had a hunting licence."

"By the operation of modern doctrine he is held to have been Lord Mowbray and Segrave, but he and his brother John were styled respectively merely Thomas and John Mowbray when they were created Earls."

In June 1385, he was summoned for service against the Scots, and was in the vanguard in that—the King's first—expedition into Scotland.

He served under his father-in-law, the Earl of Arundel, in the naval victory over the French, Spanish, and Flemish fleets off Margate, 24 March 1386/87.

In Feb. 1387/88 he supported his father-in-law, the Earl of Arundel, as one of the Lords Appellant against the Duke of Ireland and other of the King's favourites.

In May 1390, "he was a commissioner to negotiate a truce with the Scots, and joined in the letter of the King and peers to the Pope, remonstrating against papal abuses in the Church, Parliament having called upon the King, in accordance with his coronation oath, to preserve the rights of the Crown and the liberties of the realm and Church."

In 1394 he accompanied the King to Ireland. He had licence to appoint a deputy at Calais on 26 August.

In January 1394 his crest of a leopard or, with a white label, to which he had hereditary right, and which was rightly the crest of the King's first-born son, if he had any, was directed to be differenced by a crown argent in place of the label.

In October 1395 he was one of the commissioners to contract the King's marriage with Isabel of France. He was presumably present at their espousals at Calais, 30 Oct. 1396.

Office:
Office granted for life

"From which [office], for certain urgent causes, the King had discharged the Earl of Kent."

Hereditary Title:
On 12 Jan. 1385/86, he received, by charter, the office of Marshal of England, with the name, title, and honour of Earl Marshal in tail male.

This was confirmed to Parliament, 10 Feb. 1396/97, with whatsoever had belonged to the office as held by Thomas de Brotherton or Roger Bigod; and also the right to bear, in place of the wooden rod theretofore used by himself and his predecessors in office, a golden rod, with a black ring at each end, at the top the royal arms, and the Marshal's arms at the lower end.

Office:
Appointed on 1 Feb. 1390/91, for 5 years from 1 June.

Office:
Not 8 November, as in Carte's Cat. des Rolles François.