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452:'for concealing the evil demeanour of the Queen, to the slander of the King and his succession'. All were sentenced to life imprisonment and loss of goods, although most were pardoned after Queen Catherine's execution. The Dowager Duchess, although included in the indictment, was not brought to trial as she was 'old and testy', and 'may die out of perversity to defraud the King's Highness of the confiscation of her goods', but like the others she was sentenced to imprisonment and forfeiture of lands and goods.
424:. The Duchess was sent to the Tower. Towards the end of November she was questioned by the Council, but could add little to what was already known by her interrogators. On 1 December Dereham and Culpeper were arraigned on charges of treason. Both were convicted at trial, and sentenced to death. Dereham and his friend William Damport were tortured in an attempt to wring confessions from them concerning Queen Catherine's alleged adultery, and on 10 December 1541 Dereham and Culpeper were executed at
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467:. The King was of the view that there was as much reason to convict the Dowager Duchess of treason as there had been to convict Dereham. However the Council urged leniency, and she was eventually released from the Tower on 5 May 1542. Her stepson, the Duke of Norfolk, escaped punishment, but was never fully trusted again by the King.
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The
Dowager Duchess died in May 1545 and on 13 October was interred at St. Mary's Church in Lambeth, Surrey, where four of her sons who had died young--John, Charles, Henry, and Richard--were buried. Her husband's tomb at Thetford St. Mary's Priory Church was removed by his son after the dissolution
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were committed to the Tower. About the same time another of the
Duchess's daughters, Katherine Daubeney, Lady Bridgewater was also arrested. On 14 December 1541, Norfolk, fearful for his own safety, denounced his stepmother and kin in a letter to the King. On 22 December William Howard and his wife,
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On 1 November 1541 Cranmer revealed these matters in a letter to the King. The King immediately ordered that the Queen be confined to her apartments, and never saw her again. The
Dowager Duchess, hearing reports of what had happened while Catherine had been under her lax guardianship, reasoned that
428:. On the same day the Dowager Duchess was again questioned, and admitted to having promoted her niece as a prospective bride for the King while having knowledge of her prior misconduct, to having persuaded the Queen to take Dereham into her service, and to having burned Dereham's letters.
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on 28 July 1540. Despite the fact that Henry was much in love with her, referring to her as his "rose without a thorn", the marriage quickly came to a disastrous end. While the King and Queen were on progress during the fall of 1541, the religious reformer
405:'If there be none offence sithence the marriage, she cannot die for that was done before'. Unfortunately for the Queen and the Dowager Duchess, further investigations by Cranmer and the Council revealed that with the connivance of one of her attendants,
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of that house in 1537, and may have been moved to
Lambeth, but no trace of his or Agnes's tomb were to be found when John Aubrey visited there in the 1690s. The church itself was substantially rebuilt.
420:, was sent to search her house at Lambeth and question members of the household. They revealed that the Duchess had attempted to destroy evidence by burning the papers of Dereham and his friend
349:. Anne's two subsequent miscarriages caused the King misgivings about the marriage, but Anne's downfall ultimately came about as a result of her conflict with the King's chief minister,
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in a secret ceremony. Anne was crowned Queen on 1 June 1533. The
Dowager Duchess bore Anne's train in the coronation procession, and was godmother at the christening of Anne's daughter,
195:. Surrey's first wife died on 4 April 1497, and he and Agnes were married four months later by dispensation dated 17 August 1497. Agnes brought Surrey little by way of
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on 6 January 1540. However the King's physical revulsion for his new bride led to a speedy annulment of the marriage by Act of
Parliament on 12 July 1540. By then
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253:. Agnes Howard, and her step-daughter Muriel, Lady Gray, clipped the Scottish king's beard on 9 August 1503, and he gave her a length of cloth-of-gold.
214:. However, in 1499 he was recalled to court, and in the following year he accompanied the King on a state visit to France. In 1501 he was sworn of the
380:, another of the Dowager Duchess's step-granddaughters, had already caught the King's eye. Henry and Catherine were married at a private ceremony at
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on 9 September. The victory brought Surrey popular renown and royal rewards. On 1 February 1514 he was created Duke of
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was made Earl of Surrey. Both were granted lands and annuities, and the Howard arms were augmented in honour of
Flodden.
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England.
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159:. Edmund Tilney's mother, Malyn, was implicated in the scandal surrounding the downfall of Queen Katherine Howard.
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received final reading, and on 13 February 1542 the Queen and Lady Rochford were beheaded on
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The marriage coincided with a change in Surrey's fortunes. As a supporter of
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268:. When a Scottish army invaded after Henry VIII had departed for
287:, and attended the Princess during a visit to France in 1520.
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Stanley, Edward, third earl of Derby (1509â1572), magnate
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1008:Davies, C.S.L.; Edwards, John (January 2008).
988:The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday
646:Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain
124:) (c. 1477 â May 1545) was the second wife of
90:Lady Katherine Howard, Countess of Bridgewater
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486:William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham
409:, Catherine had allegedly had an affair with
77:William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham
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981:. Vol. IV. London: St. Catherine Press.
952:Queen Elizabeth in Drama and Related Studies
1097:Howard, Lord Thomas (c.1512â1537), courtier
990:. Vol. X. London: St. Catherine Press.
187:of Shelley (d.1533), was in the service of
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531:Lady Elizabeth Howard (d. 1536), married
245:In 1503 he escorted the King's daughter,
448:to Queen Elizabeth), were arraigned for
218:, and on 16 June of that year was named
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533:Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex
230:for a marriage between the Spanish
502:Henry Howard (d. 22 February 1513)
126:Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
67:Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
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516:John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford
510:Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby
249:, to Scotland for her wedding to
986:Cokayne, George Edward (1945).
977:Cokayne, George Edward (1916).
949:Boas, Frederick Samuel (1970).
499:Charles Howard (d. 3 May 1512)
496:John Howard (d. 23 March 1503)
355:dissolution of the monasteries
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1165:16th-century English nobility
1125:. New York: Grove Weidenfeld.
508:Lady Dorothy Howard, married
238:, and Henry VII's eldest son
1086:Richardson, Douglas (2004).
505:Lord Richard Howard (d.1517)
459:against Queen Catherine and
1175:15th-century English people
1123:The Six Wives of Henry VIII
1108:Warnicke, Retha M. (2008).
804:, pp. 450â455, 460â465
648:(Woodbridge, 2018), p. 111.
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514:Lady Anne Howard, married
333:On 23 May 1533 Archbishop
175:, by Eleanor, daughter of
1095:Riordan, Michael (2004).
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633:Accounts of the Treasurer
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206:, for whom he fought at
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240:Arthur, Prince of Wales
1073:Loades, David (2008).
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455:On 6 February 1542 a
450:misprision of treason
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92:Lady Elizabeth Howard
1140:Duchesses of Norfolk
568:"Cracroft's Peerage"
446:Master of the Revels
173:Boston, Lincolnshire
149:Master of the Revels
1047:Ives, E.W. (2004).
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741:, pp. 419, 428
368:The King then took
339:Katherine of Aragon
289:Katherine of Aragon
236:Catherine of Aragon
183:. Her brother, Sir
84:Lord Richard Howard
1180:English countesses
856:, pp. 469â482
828:, pp. 467â468
780:, pp. 444â448
756:, pp. 435â436
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629:James Balfour Paul
491:Lord Thomas Howard
347:Princess Elizabeth
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437:Anne Howard
395:Henry Manox
363:Tower Green
343:Anne Boleyn
296:Framlingham
204:Richard III
134:Anne Boleyn
100:Hugh Tilney
1134:Categories
934:References
328:Mary Tudor
266:Henry VIII
157:King James
944:. London.
921:Weir 1991
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894:Weir 1991
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691:Ives 2004
658:Head 2008
617:Head 2008
578:7 October
540:Footnotes
528:(d.1548).
444:, future
391:Mary Hall
258:Henry VII
212:Henry VII
128:. Two of
63:Spouse(s)
382:Oatlands
208:Bosworth
169:Skirbeck
163:Marriage
58:May 1545
968:7 March
300:Suffolk
274:Flodden
232:Infanta
50:c. 1477
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426:Tyburn
324:Eltham
278:Thomas
270:Calais
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105:Mother
97:Father
480:Issue
471:Death
197:dowry
73:Issue
970:2011
957:ISBN
580:2012
226:and
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