- Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent Tudor politician. He was the son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth Tilney. Until 1524 he was styled Earl of Surrey. Norfolk first married Anne of York, daughter of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. Following her death in 1511, he married Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Alianore Percy. - Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (March 10, 1536 - June 2 1572) was an English nobleman, also the 1st Earl of Southampton. Howard was the son of the poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. He was taught as a child by John Foxe, the Protestant martyrologist, who remained a lifelong recipient of Howard's patronage. His father predeceased him and so Thomas inherited the Dukedom of Norfolk upon the death of his grandfather, the 3rd Duke of Norfolk in 1554. - Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443 - 21 May 1524) was an English soldier and statesman, and son of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk by his first wife Catherine de Moleyns the daughter of William de Moylens and Margery Whalesborough. - John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk
John Howard (mid-1420s-1485) was the son of Sir Robert Howard (?1385-1436) and Margaret Mowbray (?1391-1459), the eldest daughter of Thomas Mowbray (1366-1399) and Elizabeth FitzAlan (1366-1425). He was created 1st Duke of Norfolk (of the 3rd creation) on June 28, 1483. The title had become extinct, firstly upon the death of John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1444-1476), who had been 4th Duke of Norfolk (of the 1st creation) from 1461 until 1476, … - Thomas de Mowbray 1st Duke of Norfolk
Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (22 March 1366 - 22 September 1399) was an English nobleman. On 10 February 1382, he succeeded his brother John as 6th Baron Mowbray and 7th Baron Segrave, and soon afterwards was created Earl of Nottingham, a title that had also been created for his elder brother. Three years later he was appointed Earl Marshal of England, … - Charles Howard 11th Duke of Norfolk
Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk was born on 15 March 1746, the son of Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk and Catherine Brockholes. He was known for actively participating in the Whig party as part of the opposition to King George III. Charles Howard Jr. succeeded to the title of 11th Duke of Norfolk in 1786 upon the death of his father. He spent a considerable amount of his money rebuilding and refurbishing Arundel Castle after inheriting his title and lands. - Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (July 12, 1628 - January 13, 1684) was the second son of Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel and Lady Elizabeth Stuart. He succeeded his brother Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk after his death in 1677. He had previously been created "Baron Howard of Castle Rising" in 1669 and "Earl of Norwich" in 1672, on the latter occasion obtaining the restoration of the office of Earl Marshal of England to him and to his family. - Henry Fitzalan-Howard 15th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk KG GCVO VD PC (27 December 1847-11 February 1917) was the son of Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk and Augusta Mary Minna Catherine Lyons. In 1900 at age 53 he went to the Second Boer War and in the same year he was named honorary Freeman of the City of Sheffield. - Edward Stanley 3rd Earl of Derby
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby (c. 10 May 1509-24 October 1572) was an English nobleman. At the age of thirteen, Edward received the titles and estates of his father, the 2nd Earl of Derby, and King Henry VIII took responsibility for bringing him up until he was of age. His commissioners, including Cardinal Thomas Wolsey were responsible for most of his affairs. In 1528, he accompanied Cardinal Wolsey on a mission to France, and in 1530, … - John Lambert
John Lambert (d. 1538) was a protestant martyr burnt to death on November 22 at Smithfield, London. He was considered an heretic by the Catholic Church and Henry VIII's Church of England. Lambert was born "John Nicholson" in Norwich and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. He was made a fellow there on the nomination of Catherine of Aragon. After theological disputes he changed his name and went to Antwerp, where he served as priest to the English factory. - Henry Howard 7th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, (January 11 1655 - April 2 1701), was a politician and soldier. He was the son of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk and Lady Anne Somerset, daughter of Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester and Elizabeth Dormer. He married Mary Mordaunt, the only daughter and heiress of the 2nd Earl of Peterborough. They divorced in 1700 and he died without children. He was succeeded by his nephew, Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk. - John de Mowbray 3rd Duke of Norfolk
John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (12 September, 1415 - 6 November, 1461)was an important player in the Wars of the Roses. He was the son of John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and Lady Katherine Neville. He held the office of Earl Marshal from 1432, when he inherited the title of 3rd Duke of Norfolk. At the beginning of the War of the Roses in 1450 he supported Richard, Duke of York, the leader of the Yorkist faction. - John de Mowbray 2nd Duke of Norfolk
John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1392 - 19 October 1432) was an English nobleman. He was the younger son of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, and succeeded his elder brother Thomas as 5th Earl of Norfolk and 3rd Earl of Nottingham in 1405. He was appointed Earl Marshal of England in 1412 and in 1415 sat in judgment on Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge. In 1425 he was restored to his father's confiscated Dukedom of Norfolk. - John de Mowbray 4th Duke of Norfolk
John Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (18 October, 1444 - January 14 1476), was the only son of John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Eleanor Bourchier. His maternal grandparents were William Bourchier, Count of Eu and Anne of Gloucester. He was married to Elizabeth Talbot, daughter of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife Lady Margaret Beauchamp. They had only one child, Anne Mowbray and so the dukedom became extinct upon his death. - Thomas Wyatt The Younger
Thomas Wyatt the younger was a rebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary I of England; his rising is traditionally called Wyatt's rebellion. He was born at Allington Castle, the only son of Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet, by Elizabeth Brooke, daughter of Thomas Brooke, 3rd Lord Cobham. The Duke of Norfolk was his godfather. At the age of fifteen he became a squire at the court of King Henry VIII, and Joint Constable of Conisborough Castle. - Thomas Howard 5th Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk (March 9, 1627 - December 13, 1677) was an English noble. He was born to Henry Frederick Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel and Lady Elizabeth Stuart. His full title was "Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk, 23rd Earl of Arundel, 6th Earl of Surrey, 3rd Earl of Norfolk". The dukedom of Norfolk was recreated and given to him in 1660. The 5th Duke was considered mentally deficient and never married. - Edward Fitzalan-Howard 18th Duke of Norfolk
Edward William Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk DL (born 2 December 1956) is the son of Miles Stapleton-Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk and his wife Anne Mary Teresa Constable-Maxwell. Edward was educated at Ampleforth, a Catholic independent school. He then attended Lincoln College, Oxford. He worked with various companies, and from 2000 to 2002 was Deputy Earl Marshal. Upon the death of his father in 2002, … - Bernard Fitzalan-Howard 16th Duke of Norfolk
Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, KG, GCVO, GBE, TD, PC (30 May 1908-31 January 1975), known as Earl of Arundel and Surrey from birth, he was the eldest surviving son of the Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, who died when the he was only 9 years old. His mother was the "suo jure" Gwendoline Mary Herries, 12th Lady Herries of Terregles, and he inherited her peerage when she died in 1947. - Miles Stapleton-Fitzalan-Howard 17th Duke of Norfolk
Major-General Miles Francis Stapleton-Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, KG, GCVO, CB, CBE, MC DL (July 21, 1915 - June 24, 2002), was the eldest son of Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Glossop and his wife Mona Stapleton, 11th Baroness Beaumont. - Thomas Howard 8th Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk (11 December 1683 - 23 December 1732) was the son of Lord Thomas Howard and Mary Elizabeth Savile. Upon his father's death, he gained the title of 17th Baron Furnivall and 8th Duke of Norfolk. He married Mary Maria Winifred Francisca Shireburn (?-1754), daughter of Sir Nicholas Shireburn, Bt., on 26 May 1709 of Stonyhurst Hall. Thomas Howard died on 23 December 1732 at age 49 without a male heir. - Charles Howard 10th Duke of Norfolk
Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk was born 1 December 1720, the son of Henry Charles Howard (c1695-1720) and Mary Aylward (?-1747). He married Catherine Brockholes (bef1724-1784), daughter of John Brockholes, on 8 November 1739. He succeeded to the title of Duke of Norfolk in 1777 after the death of Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk. Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk died on 31 August 1786 at age 65. He was succeeded by his son, Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. - Henry Howard 13th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, KG, PC (12 August, 1791 - 18 February, 1856) was an English politician. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1827. Between 1829 and 1832, he was a Member of the House of Commons for the seat of Horsham. From 1832 until 1841 he was member for West Sussex. He also served as Master of the Horse. In 1842, he left the Commons upon succeeding his father, Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, as Duke of Norfolk. - John Felton
Blessed John Felton (?- 8 August 1570) was an English Catholic martyr, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Almost all of what is known about Felton comes from the narrative of his daughter, Frances Salisbury. The manuscript that holds her story has a blank where his age should be, but it does say that he was a wealthy man of Norfolk ancestry, who lived at Bermondsey Abbey near Southwark. He "was a man of stature little and of complexion black". - Bernard Howard 12th Duke of Norfolk
Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, KG, was born 21 November 1765, the son of Henry Howard (1713-1787), a descendant of Henry Frederick Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel, and Juliana Molyneux (1749-1808). Bernard Howard succeeded to the title of Duke of Norfolk in 1815 upon the death of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. Bernard Howard married Lady Elizabeth Belasyse (1770-1819), daughter of Henry Belasyse, … - Andrew Boorde
Andrew Boorde or Borde (1490-April 1549) was an English traveller, physician and writer. Born at Boords Hill, Holms Dale, Sussex, he was educated at Oxford University, and was admitted a member of the Carthusian order while under age. In 1521 he was dispensed from religion in order that he might act as suffragan bishop of Chichester, though he never actually filled the office, and in 1529 he was freed from his monastic vows, not being able to endure, … - Marsha Fitzalan
The Lady Marcia Mary Josephine Ryecart,neé Fitzalan-Howard, better known as Marsha Fitzalan (born in Bonn, Germany on March 10, 1953), is the third daughter of the late Miles Fitzalan Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk and his wife, the (Dowager) Duchess of Norfolk, the former Anne Constable-Maxwell. Marsha Fitzalan acts in British TV and movies; she played a leading role, opposite Rik Mayall, as Sarah B'stard in the ITV sitcom, The New Statesman. - Albert Dekker
Albert Dekker (December 20, 1905 - May 5, 1968) was an American character actor. He is sometimes credited as Albert Van Dekker or Albert van Dekker. Born Albert Ecke in Brooklyn, New York, he adopted his mother's maiden name of Dekker as his stage name. Whether the "Van" used in his earlier career was of historical origin in the family or was an affectation is unclear. - Henry Fitzalan-Howard 14th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk (7 November 1815 - 25 November 1860) was the son of Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk and Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower. He was returned as a Whig for Arundel in the British House of Commons from 1837 to 1851, and Limerick 1851-1852. He married Augusta Mary Minna Catherine Lyons (1821-1886), daughter of Sir Edmund Lyons (later 1st Lord Lyons) and Augusta Louisa Rogers on June 19th, 1839. - William Oldys
William Oldys (July 14, 1696 - April 15, 1761), was an English antiquarian and bibliographer. The natural son of Dr William Oldys, chancellor of Lincoln, London was probably his place of birth. His father had held the office of advocate of the admiralty, but lost it in 1693 because he would not prosecute as traitors and pirates the sailors who had served against England under James II. William Oldys, the younger, lost part of his small patrimony in the South Sea Bubble, … - Roberto di Ridolfi
Roberto di Ridolfi or Ridolfo was an Italian conspirator. Ridolfi belonged to a famous family of Florence, where he was born. As a banker he had business connections with England, and about 1555 he settled in London, where he soon became a person of some importance, consorting with William Cecil and other prominent men. During the early years of Elizabeth's reign he began to take a more active part in politics, … - Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard
Major-General Lord Michael Fitzalan Howard, GCVO CB CBE MC (born 22 October, 1916) was Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 1972 to 1981. Born Michael Fitzalan Howard, he became The Honourable Michael in 1924 when his father, Bernard Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Glossop, succeeded as 3rd Baron Howard of Glossop. - Lady Katherine Neville
Katherine Neville or Catherine de Neville (c. 1397-c. 1483) was the eldest daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1364?-1425) and Joan Beaufort (c.1379-1440), daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster by his mistress (later, 3rd wife) Catherine de Roet. Katherine was married firstly to John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1392-1432). Their only known child was John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1415-1461). - John Fitzalan 14th Earl of Arundel
John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (1408 - June 12, 1435) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was the son of John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel. On his father's death, he inherited the title of Baron Maltravers and a claim to the Earldom of Arundel, which was disputed with the Duke of Norfolk. As a young man FitzAlan fought for the English in France, where he distinguished himself at the siege of Compiegne, … - William Calthorpe
Sir William Calthorpe, (30 January 1410 - 15 November 1494), Knight of the Bath, and Lord of the Manors of Burnham Thorpe, and Ludham, in Norfolk. He is on record as High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1442, 1458 and 1469 and 1479. William Calthorpe is recorded on 28th June 1443, when he manumised one of his villeins, and set him free from all future services. He became locum tenens and Commissary-General to the late most noble and potent William, Duke of Norfolk, … - Richard Of Shrewsbury Duke of York
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York and 1st Duke of Norfolk (17 August 1473 - 1483?) was the sixth child and second son of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. He was born in Shrewsbury. He was a younger brother of Elizabeth of York, Mary of York, Cecily of York, Edward V of England and Margaret Plantagenet (Princess of York). He was also an older brother of Anne of York, George Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford, Catherine of York and Bridget of York. - Henry de Beauchamp 1st Duke of Warwick
Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick (March 21, 1424/5 - June 11, 1445) was an English nobleman. He was the son of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and Isabel le Despenser. In 1434, Henry married Cecille Neville, the eldest daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Alice Montagu, Countess of Salisbury. He became 14th Earl of Warwick on his father's death in 1439. - Edmund Tylney
Edmund Tilney (c. 1536-1610) was a courtier best known now as Master of the Revels to Elizabeth I and James I. He was the son of Phillip Tilney, an usher to Henry VIII, and Malyn Chambre, who had served Catherine Howard, and was briefly imprisoned after that queen's downfall. The Tilneys' ties to the Howard family remained strong; mother and son may have stayed with Agnes Howard after Phillip's death in 1541. - Thomas de Mowbray 4th Earl of Norfolk
Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk and 2nd Earl of Nottingham (1385 - June 8, 1405), English nobleman and rebel, was the son of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan. Upon the death of his father in Venice, he was allowed to succeed him as Earl of Norfolk and Nottingham, but not as Duke of Norfolk. He also received his father's title of Earl Marshal, but on a strictly honorary basis, the military rank being held by Ralph Neville, … - Bernard Fitzalan-Howard 3rd Baron Howard of Glossop
Bernard Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Glossop, MBE (10 May 1885-24 August 1972) was a British peer. Fitzalan-Howard was the eldest son of the 2nd Baron Howard of Glossop and was educated at the London Oratory School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a Captain in the Lovat Scouts during World War I and was awarded the MBE in 1920. On 5 September 1914, he married the 11th Baroness Beaumont and they had eight children: *Hon. - James Graham 8th Duke of Montrose
James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose (b. 1935), is the only duke who has a seat in the House of Lords as an elected hereditary peer. He takes the Conservative Party whip and is the shadow spokesman for Scotland. The other duke in the House, the Duke of Norfolk, did not have to stand for election as he holds the Royal Office of Earl Marshal.
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