Thomas (Howard), 2nd Duke of Norfolk

1443 - 1524  (81 years)

• Name	Thomas (Howard)  [1]
  Suffix	2nd Duke of Norfolk
  Born	1443	Stoke Neyland, Suffolk, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Education	Thetford Grammar School, Thetford, Norfolk, England   [2]
  Office	1476  [3]
  	Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk
  Office	1478  [3]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Norfolk
  Decoration	18 Jan. 1477/78  [3]
  	Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
  Decoration	June 1483  [3]
  	Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
  	Degraded from the Garter 1485; restored circa 1491. [3]
  Office	June 1483  [3]
  	Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
  Hereditary Title	28 June 1483  [3]
  	1st Earl of Surrey [E., 1483]
  	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. [3]
  Office	1501  [3]
  	Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
  Office	1489–1509  [3]
  	Chief Justice in Eyre North of Trent
  Office	23–24 June 1509  [4]
  	Marshal of England
  	For the coronation of Henry VIII [4]
  Office	10 July 1510  [4]
  	Earl Marshal of England [for life]
  Office	July 1513  [4]
  	Lieutenant-General in the North
  	Where he gained (9 September) the famous victory over the Scots at Flodden Field [4]
  Hereditary Title	1 Feb. 1513/14  [4]
  	1st Duke of Norfolk [E., 1514]
  	The 1514 creation was afforded the precedency of the 1397 creation. [2] He resigned on the same day the dignity of Earl of Surrey in favour of his eldest son, for his son's life. [5] 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	1503–4  [6]
  	Lord High Steward
  	For the trial of Edward (Sutton), Lord Dudley [6]
  Office	1483–84  [3]
  	Steward of the Household
  Office	29 May 1514  [4]
  	Great Chamberlain
  	During a minority [4]
  Office	31 May – 18 July 1520  [4]
  	Guardian of England
  	During the King's absence in France [4]
  Office	13 May 1521  [4]
  	Lord High Steward
  	For the trial of his sons's father-in-law, the Duke of Buckingham [4]
  Office	June 1501 – 1522  [3]
  	Lord High Treasurer
  Died	21 May 1524	Framlingham Castle, Framlingham, Suffolk, England   [7]
  Buried	26 June 1524	Thetford Abbey, Thetford, Norfolk, England   [7]
  	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. [7] "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)." [7]
  Person ID	I404	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	4 Aug. 2018

  
  

  Father	John (Howard), 1st Duke of Norfolk,   d. 22 Aug. 1485, Bosworth Field, near Ambion Hill, Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire, England
  Mother	Catherine de Moleyns,   d. 3 Nov. 1465, Stoke Neyland, Suffolk, England
  Family ID	F381	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Tilney,   d. 4 April 1497  [1]
  Married	30 April 1472  [8]
  Children	+ 1. Lord Edmund Howard + 2. Lady Elizabeth Howard,   d. 1538
  Last Modified	4 Aug. 2018
  Family ID	F210	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Agnes Tylney,   bur. 31 May 1545, Thetford Abbey, Thetford, Norfolk, England
  Married	1497
  Last Modified	4 Aug. 2018
  Family ID	F378	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Howard (augmented) quartering Arms of Thomas of Brotherton, Warenne, and Mowbray (Thomas (Howard), 2nd Duke of Norfolk) Quarterly, 1st, Gules on a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy Argent an escutcheon Or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth by an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first (HOWARD, with augmentation of honour); 2nd, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure a label of three points Argent (Arms of Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk); 3rd, chequy Or and Azure (DE WARENNE, Earl of Surrey); 4th, Gules a lion rampant Argent (MOWBRAY).

  
  

• 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." [7]

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), R. Warnicke, "Katherine [Catherine] [née Katherine Howard] (1518x24–1542), queen of England and Ireland, fifth consort of Henry VIII". [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume IX, page 612. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume IX, page 613. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume IX, page 614. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume IX, page 614. Citing the patent in Statutes of the Realm, volume iii, page 99: "Et cum idem nuper Comes per scriptum suum (of 1 Feb. 1514, there said to be enrolled that day in Chancery) remiserit . . . nobis et heredibus nostris pro termino vite prefati Thome filij, nomen Comitis Surrey, &c." [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume IX, page 614. Citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1494–1509, page 360. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume IX, page 615. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume IX, page 614. Citing Paston Letters (Gairdner), volume iii, page 39.