Sir Thomas HOWARD 2nd Duke of Norfolk

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  General Notes:

The family was founded by William Howard, a lawyer in the county of Norfolk who was summoned to Parliament in 1295. His family acquired the duchy of Norfolk through the marriage of Robert Howard with Margaret, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of Norfolk. Their son, John, eventually succeeded to most of the Mowbray estates and was created duke of Norfolk and hereditary earl marshal in 1483 when the Mowbray line died out. John was killed fighting for Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485). His son, Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk (1443\endash 1524), was a councillor and military commander for the kings Henry VII and Henry VIII. His son, Thomas, the 3rd duke (1473\endash 1554), held various high offices under Henry VIII, who took two of Norfolk's nieces\emdash Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard\emdash as wives. After Catherine's execution, both Norfolk and his son, Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (1517\endash 47), were accused of treason by Henry; Surrey was executed, but Norfolk survived and regained his dukedom during the reign of Queen Mary. Surrey's son, Thomas Howard, the 4th duke (1538\endash 72), was executed for his intrigues against Queen Elizabeth I on behalf of Mary Queen of Scots. The family's most notable member during Elizabeth's reign was Charles, 2nd Lord Howard of Effingham (1536\endash 1624), who was lord high admiral and commanded the fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada.

It took the Howards until 1660 to regain the title of duke of Norfolk, which had been forfeited with the 4th duke's execution in 1572. In 1672 the office of earl marshal was made hereditary to the dukes of Norfolk. However, the civil disabilities incurred by the Howards on account of their Roman Catholicism tended to discourage the family's prominence in subsequent periods.

Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk KG PC (1443 \endash 21 May 1524), styled Earl of Surrey from 1483 to 1485 and again from 1489 to 1514, was an English nobleman and politician. He was the eldest son of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, by his first wife, Catharina de Moleyns. The Duke was the grandfather of both Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Catherine Howard and the great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I. He served four monarchs as a soldier and statesman.

On 30 April 1472, Howard married Elizabeth Tilney, the daughter of Sir Frederick Tilney of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, and widow of Sir Humphrey Bourchier, slain at Barnet, son and heir apparent of Sir John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners.[5] They had issue:

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk[2]
Sir Edward Howard[6]
Lord Edmund Howard, father of Henry VIII's fifth Queen, Catherine Howard[7]
Sir John Howard[2]
Henry Howard[2]
Charles Howard[2]
Henry Howard (the younger)[2]
Richard Howard[2]
Elizabeth Howard, married Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and was mother of Queen Anne Boleyn, and grandmother of Queen Elizabeth.[8]
Muriel Howard (died 1512), married firstly John Grey, Viscount Lisle (died 1504), and secondly Sir Thomas Knyvet[9]

Norfolk's first wife died on 4 April 1497, and on 8 November 1497 he married, by dispensation dated 17 August 1497, her cousin, Agnes Tilney, the daughter of Hugh Tilney of Skirbeck and Boston, Lincolnshire and Eleanor, a daughter of Walter Tailboys. They had issue:

William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham[10]
Lord Thomas Howard (1511\endash 1537)[11]
Richard Howard (died 1517)[12]
Dorothy Howard, married Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby[13]
Anne Howard, married John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford[14]
Catherine Howard, married firstly, Rhys ap Gruffydd. Married secondly, Henry Daubeney, 1st Earl of Bridgewater.
Elizabeth Howard (died 1536), married Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Howard,_2nd_Duke_of_Norfolk
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2nd Duke of Norfolk was born to John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Catherine Moleyns. Thomas married 1st Elizabeth Tilney, dau of Sir Frederick Tilney & Elizabeth Cheney on 30 Apr 1472. His 2nd marriage was to Agnes Tylney, dau of Hugh Tylney, on 17 Aug 1497. He was also reported to have been married on 17 August 1487. He died on 21 May 1524 at Framlingham Castle, Framlingham, Suffolk, England. He was buried on 26 June 1524 at Thetford Abbey, Norfolk, England.
After the dissolution of Thetford Priory, the Howard tombs were moved to the Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham. A now-lost monumental brass depicting the 2nd Duke was formerly in the Church of St. Mary at Lambeth.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Title of Nobility: Earl of Surrey, between 1483 and 1485,.

2. Thomas served in the military between 1489 and 1499 in , , , England: King's Lieutenant in the north.

3. He worked as a Sheriff of Hutton Castle between 1489 and 1499 in Hutton Conyers, North Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, England.

4. He resided at Framlingham Castle from 1489 in Framlingham, East Suffolk, Suffolk, England.

5. He worked as a Lord High Treasurer between 1501 and 1522 in , , , England.

6. He served in the military on 9 September 1513 in Branxton, Northumberland, Northumberland, England: Battle of Flodden.
Led the English to victory over the Scots at Battle of Flodden Field.
(Flodden Field, Branxton, Northumberland TD12 4SN, England.)

7. Title of Nobility: 2nd Duke of Norfolk, on 1 February 1514, in , , Norfolk, England.

Thomas married Elizabeth TILNEY, daughter of Sir Frederick TILNEY and Elizabeth CHENEY, on 30 April 1472 in Norwich, , Norfolk, England. (Elizabeth TILNEY was born about 1444 in Ashwellthorpe, South Norfolk, Norfolk, England,¹¹¹² died on 4 April 1497 in Thetford, Breckland, Norfolk, England ¹¹¹² and was buried in 1497 in Thetford, Breckland, Norfolk, England ¹¹¹².)