Lord Thomas Howard
Lord Thomas Howard | |
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Born | 1511 |
Died | 31 October 1537 (aged 25–26) Tower of London |
Noble family | Howard |
Father | Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk |
Mother | Agnes Tilney |
Lord Thomas Howard (1511 – 31 October 1537) was an
Early life
Howard was a younger son of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, later 2nd Duke of Norfolk, by his second marriage to Agnes Tilney.[1] He was a half-brother of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, son of the 2nd duke by his first marriage, and is often confused with his elder brother.
Lord Thomas was at court in 1533 when his niece,
Imprisonment and death
Howard's niece, Queen Anne, fell from power in May 1536. This undoubtedly contributed to the King's fury when in early July 1536 he learned of the marriage contract of Lord Thomas and Lady Margaret since Lady Margaret was at the time next in the line of succession as a result of the King's bastardization of his daughters
In 1540, Lady Margaret Douglas was disgraced in a similar affair with Thomas Howard's nephew
Poem
Lord Thomas's nephew, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, referred to his death in a poem to "his Geraldine" (Lady Elizabeth Fitsgerald):—
If you be fair and fresh, am I not of your hue?
And for my vaunt I dare well say, my blood is not untrue;
For you yourself doth know, it is not long ago
Sith that for love one of the race did end his life in woe,
In Tower both strong and high, for his assured truth,
Whereas in tears he spent his breath, alas, the more the ruth!
This gentle beast so died, whom nothing could remove,
But willingly to seek his death for loss of his true love.[6]
Footnotes
- ^ Head 2008; Davies 2008.
- ^ Riordan 2004; Marshall 2006.
- ^ Riordan 2004.
- ^ Riordan 2004; Marshall 2006.
- ^ Marshall 2006; Weir 1991, p. 437.
- ^ "Essays on the English Poets III - Howard, Earl of Surrey". The Dublin University Magazine. XVI (XCV): 583. November 1840.
References
- Davies, Catherine (2008). Howard [née Tilney], Agnes, duchess of Norfolk (b. in or before 1477, d. 1545), noblewoman. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Head, David M. (2008). Howard, Thomas, second duke of Norfolk (1443–1524), magnate and soldier. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- McDermott, James (2008). Howard, William, first Baron Howard of Effingham (c.1510–1573), naval commander. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Marshall, Rosalind K. (2006). Douglas, Lady Margaret, countess of Lennox (1515–1578), noblewoman. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Richardson, Douglas (2004). Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.
- Riordan, Michael (2004). Howard, Lord Thomas (c.1512–1537), courtier. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Weir, Alison (1991). The Six Wives of Henry VIII. New York: Grove Weidenfeld.