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]

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:

• 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]

Thomas married Agnes Tylney in 1497. Agnes (daughter of Hugh Tylney and unknown Tailboys) was buried on 31 May 1545 in Thetford Abbey, Thetford, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Mortimer. Robert (son of David Mortimer and Elizabeth Doreward) was born circa 1442; died on 22 Aug. 1485 in Bosworth Field, near Ambion Hill, Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Thomas (Boleyn), 1st Earl of Wiltshire. Thomas was born circa 1477; died on 12 March 1539 in Hever Castle, Hever, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Martel's Hall, Ardleigh, Essex, England
• Residence: Great Bromley, Essex, England
• Residence: Ashfield, Suffolk, England

Notes:

Birth:
Aged 10 in 1485, 18 in 1494, 28 in 1506.

Residence:
She and her husband sold the manor of Martel's Hall to William Mannock in 1528.

Elizabeth married George Guildford after 14 July 1487. George (son of Sir Richard Guildford and Anne Pympe) was born circa 1477; died after 1534. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Anne married H.M. Henry VIII (Tudor), King of England in Jan. 1533. 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]

Other Events:

• Office: Bailiff of Winchelsea
• Office: 1552–53; Sheriff of Kent
• Residence: Hempsted, Benenden, Kent, England
• Residence: Great Bromley, Essex, England
• Office: 1529; Burgess (M.P.) for Gatton
• Office: 1542; Knight of the Shire for Kent
• Office: 1546; Chamberlain of the Household of Anne of Cleves
• Office: 1553; Burgess (M.P.) for ?New Romney
• Will: 4 May 1560
• Probate: 11 July 1565

Notes:

He was heir male in 1534 to his uncle, Sir Edward Guildford, of Halden and Hempsted (in Benenden), Kent. In 1536 he reached agreement with Sir John Dudley and his wife, Jane, daughter of his uncle, Sir Edward Guildford, regarding settlement of his uncle's estate, by which he received the manors of Brocket, Upper Forsham, Lower Forsham, and Frencham, Kent.

"In 1542 he and his wife, Barbara, conveyed the manor and the advowson of the church of Great Bromley, Essex, to William Cardinal, Gent."

Sources cited in Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed. (2011), volume 2, pages 181–2:

1. Morant, Hist. & Antiqs. of Essex, 1 (1768): 441.


2. Blore, Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland, 1(2) (1811): 100–102 (La Warre / West ped.).


3. Brydges Collins’ Peerage of England, 5 (1812): 1–28 (sub West, Earl Delawarr).


4. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, 2 (1826): 605–608 (will of Thomas West, Lord La Warre).


5. Bentley, Excerpta Historica (1833): 309–310.


6. Coll. Top. et Gen., 2 (1835): 8–9.


7. Watson, Tendring Hundred in Olden Time (1877): 161–164.


8. Birch, Cat. Seals in the British Museum, 3 (1894): 46 (seal of Sir John Guldeford dated 1543 — A firebrand flamant.  Crest of GULDEFORD).


9. Clutterbuck, Notes on the Parishes of Fyfield, Kimpton, Panton Mewsey, Weyhill & Wherwell (1898): 181–185 (will of Thomas West, K.G.).


10. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 69.


11. Benolte & Cooke, Vis. of Kent 1530–1, 1574, & 1592 (H.S.P. 74) (1923): 11 (1530–1 Vis.) (Guyldeforde ped.: "John [Guildford] = Barbara d. to the lorde Delawarre"), 77 (Add'l Peds.) (Guildford ped.: "Sr. John Guldeford, Knt. = Barbara dau. to Thomas West Lord La Ware").


12. Comber, Sussex Gens., 3 (1933): 304–306 (sub Lords West).


13. Davis, Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 92–93.


14. VCH, Sussex, 6(1) (1980): 10–21.


15. Bindoff, House of Commons, 1509–1558, 2 (1982): 265–266 (biog. of John Guildford).


16. National Archives, E 328/52 (Indenture of agreement dated 23 Nov. 1538 between John Duddeley Knt., and Dame Jane, his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Edward Guldeford Knt., son and heir of Sir Richard Guldeford, Knt., deceased, and (2) John Guldeford Esq., son and heir of George Guldeford Esq., second son of said Sir Richard, re. a dispute between the parties on right to manors etc. in cos. Kent and Suss., late of Sir Richard Guldeford).

Will:
P.C.C. 25 Morrison

Requested burial beside his first wife at Benenden, Kent, England.

Probate:
P.C.C. 25 Morrison

John married Hon. Barbara West before 1534. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Fitz William. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir Owen West. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter Woodland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Lynne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]