Thomas Howard,3rd Duke of Norfolk,was a prominent English politician and nobleman of the Tudor era. He was an uncle of two of the wives of King Henry VIII,Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard,both of whom were beheaded,and played a major role in the machinations affecting these royal marriages. After falling from favour in 1546,he was stripped of his Dukedom and imprisoned in the Tower of London,avoiding execution when Henry VIII died on 28 January 1547.
Earl of Suffolk is a title which has been created four times in the Peerage of England. The first creation,in tandem with the creation of the title of Earl of Norfolk,came before 1069 in favour of Ralph the Staller;but the title was forfeited by his heir,Ralph de Guader,in 1074. The second creation came in 1337 in favour of Robert de Ufford;the title became extinct on the death of his son,the second Earl,in 1382. The third creation came in 1385 in favour of Michael de la Pole. The fourth creation was in 1603 for Lord Thomas Howard,the second son of Thomas Howard,4th Duke of Norfolk,by his second wife Margaret Audley,the daughter and eventual sole heiress of Thomas Audley,1st Baron Audley of Walden,of Audley End in the parish of Saffron Walden in Essex. Howard was a prominent naval commander and politician and served as Earl Marshal,as Lord Chamberlain of the Household and as Lord High Treasurer. In 1597 he was summoned to Parliament as Baron Howard de Walden,and in 1603 he was further honoured,at the start of the reign of King James I,when he was created Earl of Suffolk. His second son the Hon. Thomas Howard was created Earl of Berkshire in 1626.
Baron Braybrooke,of Braybrooke in the County of Northampton,is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1788 for John Griffin,4th Baron Howard de Walden,with remainder to his kinsman Richard Neville-Aldworth. Lord Howard de Walden was the son of William Whitwell and Anne Griffin,daughter of James Griffin,2nd Baron Griffin of Braybrooke,who was the son of Edward Griffin,1st Baron Griffin of Braybrooke,and his wife Lady Essex Howard,eldest daughter of James Howard,3rd Earl of Suffolk and 3rd Baron Howard de Walden.
Field Marshal John Griffin Griffin,4th Baron Howard de Walden,1st Baron Braybrooke,,KB,of Audley End in Essex,was a British nobleman and soldier. He served as a junior officer with the Pragmatic Army in the Netherlands and Germany during the War of the Austrian Succession. After changing his surname to Griffin in 1749,he commanded a brigade of at least four battalions at the Battle of Corbach in July 1760 during the Seven Years' War. He also commanded a brigade at the Battle of Warburg and was wounded at the Battle of Kloster Kampen.
Baron Howard de Walden is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ of summons in 1597 by Queen Elizabeth I for Admiral Lord Thomas Howard,a younger son of Thomas Howard,4th Duke of Norfolk,by his second wife,the Honourable Margaret Audley,daughter of Thomas Audley,1st Baron Audley of Walden.
Thomas Howard,1st Earl of Suffolk,of Audley End House in the parish of Saffron Walden in Essex,and of Suffolk House near Westminster,a member of the House of Howard,was the second son of Thomas Howard,4th Duke of Norfolk by his second wife Margaret Audley,the daughter and eventual sole heiress of Thomas Audley,1st Baron Audley of Walden,of Audley End.
James Howard,3rd Earl of Suffolk,KB,and 3rd Baron Howard de Walden (1619–1688),eldest son of Theophilus Howard,2nd Earl of Suffolk. Howard was honoured with knighthood in the Order of the Bath in 1626,and was a joint-commissioner of the parliament to Charles I the same year. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War,and was a courtier after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660. He was lord-lieutenant of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and gentleman of the bedchamber,1660–1682.
Theophilus Howard,2nd Earl of Suffolk,was an English nobleman and politician.
Catherine Carey,after her marriage Catherine Knollys and later known as both Lady Knollys and Dame Catherine Knollys,,was chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I,who was her first cousin.
Audley End House is a largely early 17th-century country house outside Saffron Walden,Essex,England. It is a prodigy house,known as one of the finest Jacobean houses in England.
Lord William Howard was an English nobleman and antiquary,sometimes known as "Belted or Bauld (bold) Will".
Thomas Howard,1st Earl of Berkshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1605 and 1622. He was created Earl of Berkshire in 1626.
Henry Howard,10th Earl of Suffolk,of Audley End,Essex,styled Lord Walden from 1731 to 1733 was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 until 1733 when he succeeded to the peerage.
Events from the 1540s in England.
The Stanley family is an English family with many notable members,including the Earls of Derby and the Barons Audley who descended from the early holders of Audley and Stanley,Staffordshire. The two branches of the Audley family were made Barons Audley but both ended in the male line in the 14th century,after which their considerable estates were passed to a number of female heiresses,while the Stanleys would be elevated in the 15th century first to Barons Stanley and then Earls of Derby,a title they continue to hold.
Henry Howard,6th Earl of Suffolk,1st Earl of Bindon PC was an English nobleman,styled Lord Walden from 1691 to 1706.
Walden Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Saffron Walden,Essex,England founded by Geoffrey de Mandeville,1st Earl of Essex between 1136 and 1143. Originally a priory,it was elevated to the status of an abbey in 1190.
Sir John Howard,of Wiggenhall and East Winch,in Norfolk,England,was a landowner,soldier,courtier,administrator and politician. His grandson was John Howard,1st Duke of Norfolk,the great-grandfather of two queens,Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard,two of the six wives of King Henry VIII.
Richard Griffin,2nd Baron Braybrooke was an English politician and peer. He was known as Richard Aldworth-Neville or Richard Aldworth Griffin-Neville to 1797.
Henrietta Howard,Countess of Suffolk,formerly Lady Henrietta Somerset,was the second wife of Henry Howard,6th Earl of Suffolk.
