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Authors: Jessie Childs
allowance 89
reconciliation attempts 89
accusations of abuse 90–1
alienation from children 92–3
Howard, Frances (
née
de Vere),
Countess of Surrey background 61–3
marriage 61–4
dowry 62
Holbein portrait 63
move to Kenninghall 93
relationship with Surrey 130, 133–5
children 133, 134
refused permission to go to Boulogne 233, 248
pregnancy, 1546 255, 274, 316
re-marries 316
Howard, Henry, Earl of Northampton 134, 135, 264, 266, 281–2, 316, 336–7
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey
background 3
portraits 3, 173–4, 222
reputation 3–5
character 4, 27, 56, 120–1, 128–9, 136–8, 144, 241–2, 264–5, 310–11, 317–18
family background 9–16
family motto 11
family coat of arms 15
birth 17
baptism 17–18
wet-nurse 18–19
house moves 19–21
childhood 26–32, 45
relationship with mother 27–8, 92–3
accession to Earldom 35
rooms at Kenninghall 36–7
relationship with servants 39–40
education 40–3, 46, 176, 325
beatings 42–3
sense of aloneness 43–4, 170–2
love of hunting 44–5, 123
literary potential 46
and Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond 52, 55–60, 79, 122–6, 235–6
military training 57–8
appearance 60
marriage to Anne Boleyn rumoured 327
Holbein portrait 60
marriage to Mary Tudor rumoured 60–1
marriage 60–4
sails to France 66
at the French Court 69–76, 329
exposure to Renaissance art and culture 73–4
return from French Court 79
influence of time in France on 79–83
Edwardes’ book dedication to 82–3
summoned to Court 97, 100, 101–2
and Henry VIII 100, 168–70, 200, 205, 208, 225, 230, 232–4, 258, 265–6, 283
and Lord Thomas Howard 110, 112–13, 162
and Richmond’s funeral 113
and the Pilgrimage of Grace 116–22
grief at death of Richmond 122–6
disturbs the King’s Peace 123–4
Windsor rustification 124–7
and Queen Jane’s funeral 127
engaged on family business 127–8
gambling 128
maintenance of image 128
wardrobe 128
relationship with Mary Howard 129–30, 275, 278
and ‘Fair Geraldine’ 130–3, 181
birth of heir 133, 336–7
father’s control over 133–4
relationship with wife 130, 133–5
children 134, 135–6
criticism of ‘new men’ 138
and the invasion crisis of 1538–9, 140
appointments, 1539 141
and the Westminster tournament 145–8, 151
knighted 150
gifts from Henry VIII 150
and the execution of Cromwell 150
elected to the Order of the Garter 150–1
mission to Guisnes 151–2
installation into the Order of the Garter 152–3
as cupbearer to Henry VIII 153–4, 163
attends Catherine Howard’s execution 160, 163
relationship with the Seymours 160–3, 260–1, 334–5, 345–6
search for persona 172–4
poetic legacy 178–82
first imprisonment in Fleet Prison 183, 185–7, 294, 345–6
Scottish campaign, 1542 188–9
rampage of 1543 1–2, 72–3, 190–2, 194–7, 200, 345
misconduct inquiry 192–4, 270–1
regal pretensions 193–4, 137–8, 223, 265
religious beliefs 143–4, 194–200, 264
and the death of Wyatt 167, 198–200
at Landrecy 204–8
acquires St Leonard’s Priory 208
and the Duke of Najera 208–9
Charles V’s opinion of 206–8
and the French campaign of 1544 209–11, 221
and the siege of Montreuil 211–18
and the loss of Clere 218–20
restoration of Surrey House 222–3
tapestries 222–3
coat of arms 193, 223, 235, 275, 276, 277, 285–91, 303, 306
appointed Lieutenant General 225
and the defence of Boulogne 225–36, 248, 256–7, 264–5
and money 92, 128–9 232–3, 257, 336
Scrots portrait 60, 235–6, 266–7, 282, 283, 306, 317, 351
and the battle of St Etienne 237–43
aftermath of St Etienne 243–5
demoted 245–7
appointed Captain of the Rearward 247
letter from children 249–50
return to England 249–51
argument with Blagge 254–5, 265–6, 277–8, 283
letter to Dudley 255–7, 269, 278, 304
Grey’s allegations against 256–7
and Mary Howard’s proposed marriage to Thomas Seymour 72, 260–3, 265–6, 275–6, 277–8, 283, 306
political liability 264–8
Sat Superest
(Enough Survives) motto 266–7, 268, 281, 317
last letter as free man 267–8
arrest 269–70
imprisonment in the Tower of London 270, 278–9, 292–8
letter to Privy Council 270–1
evidence gathered against 265–7, 271–9
secrets 279–82
rumours about 282–3
treason charge 283–91, 303–4
indicted 290–1
escape attempt 298–302
implicated by father’s confession 303
trial 303–8
jurors 304–5, 307–8
sentence pronounced 308
reaction to trial 308–11
last words 311–12
execution 311
tomb 135, 316–17
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey:
works 3–4, 5, 41, 79, 170, 172–3, 178–82
Aeneid
, translation of 175–8, 179, 258, 342, 343
Biblical paraphrases: Ecclesiastes 3, 174, 222, 258–9, 264, 283
Biblical paraphrases: Psalms 174, 279, 282, 292–8
the Devonshire Manuscript 110, 129, 210, 343
‘Diverse thy death’ 168, 198, 258
‘Each beast can choose his fere’ 112–13, 160–3, 166, 204, 335
‘From Tuscan came my lady’s worthy race’ (Geraldine Sonnet) 130–3, 181
‘Good ladies, you that have your pleasure in exile’ 134–5, 210
‘If care do cause men cry’ 38, 170–1
‘In the rude age’ 198
‘Laid in my quiet bed’ 45
‘London, hast thou accused me’ 194–6, 199–200
‘Martial, the things for to attain’ 174–5, 178, 277
‘My Ratclif, when thy reckless youth offends’ 280
‘Norfolk sprang thee’ (Clere Epitaph) 39, 219–20, 267, 317
‘Of thy life, Thomas’ 135, 178
‘O happy dames’ 110, 129, 210–11, 343
‘Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green’ 171–2
‘Since fortune’s wrath envieth the wealth’ 188
‘So cruel prison’ (Windsor Elegy) 11, 56–60, 124–6, 145–6, 175
‘Such wayward ways hath love’ 166–7
‘Th’Assyrians’ King’ 169–70, 258
‘The fancy which that I have served long’ 235
‘The great Macedon’ 4, 168–9, 198, 199
‘The soote season’ 43–4
‘The storms are past’ 311–12
‘The sudden storms that heave me to and fro’ 264, 293–4
‘The sun hath twice brought forth the tender green’ 173
‘Too dearly had I bought my green and youthful years’ 101–2
Translation technique 40, 42, 176
‘When reckless youth in an unquiet breast’ 293–4
‘When Windsor walls sustained my wearied arm’ (Windsor Sonnet) 126
‘Wyatt resteth here’ 165, 167, 199–200
Howard, Jane 133–5, 250, 315, 337
Howard, John, First Duke of Norfolk 10–12
Howard, Katherine (Surrey’s sister) 18, 58, 326–7
Howard, Katherine (Howard’s daughter) 134, 136, 282, 315, 337
Howard, Margaret 134, 315
Howard, Mary
birth 19, 90
marriage to Richmond 53, 79, 330
and Anne Boleyn’s investiture 65
alienation from mother 92–3
and the Devonshire Manuscript 110, 129, 210, 343
relationship with Surrey 129–30, 275, 278
jointure 129
as member of Catherine Howard’s household 154
marriage to Thomas Seymour proposed 160, 260–3
as reformer 144, 259, 264, 315
deposition 123, 138, 223, 261, 274–6, 278, 285, 306
Surrey’s children placed in care of 315
Howard, Robert 9–10
Howard, Lord Thomas 110–13, 162, 284
Howard, Thomas, Second Duke of Norfolk 10, 12–15, 25, 33–4, 41, 43, 63, 82–3, 110, 119, 162, 243, 284, 360
Howard, Thomas, Third Duke of Norfolk
at Court as surety 12
at Flodden 14–15, 162
children by first wife 18
marriage to Elizabeth Stafford 18, 26
as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 21–4, 36, 90
and the execution of Buckingham 25
breakdown of marriage 26, 87–93
absences from home 27, 31–2
appearance 32
character 32–3, 114
accession to Dukedom 34–5
ducal household 35–6
income 35
ill-health 37–9
hunting party, 1526 45
and Surrey’s literary potential 42, 46
and the fall of Wolsey 47, 51–2
and Surrey’s rumoured marriage to Mary Tudor 60–1
and Surrey’s marriage 60–3, 133
religious conservatism 62–3, 96–7, 116, 144, 155–6, 241, 275
mission to France 77–9
and Surrey’s time in France 82
temper 90–1
antipathy towards Cromwell 91–2, 114, 116, 128, 148–9
and the fall of Anne Boleyn 104–7
and Richmond’s funeral 113
arrest rumoured 114
and the Pilgrimage of Grace 114–22
accusations of rebel sympathies 116–22, 184
and Surrey’s grief 122–3
and the birth of Edward VI 127
and Mary Howard 129
control over Surrey 133–4
and the invasion crisis of 1538–9 140
and Catherine Howard 148
and the fall of Cromwell 148–50
and Henry VIII 47, 154, 252
Lascelles’ attempted plot against 155–6
and Catherine Howard’s disgrace 158–60, 163
Scottish campaign, 1542 187–8
and the rampage of 1543 200
and the French campaign of 1544 209, 221
and the siege of Montreuil 211–8
and the invasion threat of 1545 223–4
and the defence of Boulogne 229, 233–4
political survival 252
loss of control over Surrey 200, 229, 233–4, 257
attempts at Howard-Seymour alliance 260–3
loss of control of household 264
arrest 270
interrogation 272–3
accusations against 273–4, 277–8
coat of arms 275, 285, 302–3
confession 302–3
death 315
Howard, Thomas, Fourth Duke of Norfolk 133–5, 135, 210, 264, 274, 281, 316, 336–7
Howard, Thomas, Viscount Howard of Bindon 19, 39, 45, 82, 92, 129, 134, 264, 354
Howard, Sir William of East Winch 9
Howard, Lord William 158, 216
Hubbert, Miles 305
humanism 40, 94, 176, 325
Hunsdon Hall 20–1, 31–2, 130
hunting 44–5
Husee, John 101, 113, 119
Hussey, Lord 119
Hussey, Thomas 190, 233–4, 336
ice skating 43
Il Libro del Cortegiano
(
The Book of the Courtier
) (Castiglione) 73
invasion crisis, 1538–9 139–43
invasion crisis, 1545 223–4
Ireland 21–4, 36, 132
irons 301–2
Isabella, Empress 141–2
James IV, King of Scots 14–15, 100, 162, 187
James V, King of Scots 102, 187–8
James VI, King of Scots (James I of England) 110, 316
Jane Seymour, Queen 98, 102–3, 109, 111, 118 127, 335
‘Jhon a Legh’ 183–5
Jonson 155
jousting 146–7
Junius, Hadrianus 135, 136, 137, 249, 250, 264
Kegworth Church 286
Kelso 188, 219
Kenninghall 19–20, 36–7, 39, 43–4, 59, 87, 89, 93, 110, 122–3, 129, 160, 176, 208, 225, 249, 264, 267, 272, 274, 276, 278, 285, 290, 306, 313, 315, 336–7
King Henry the Eighth
(Shakespeare and Fletcher) 80–1
King’s Peace, punishment for disturbing 123–4
Kingston, Anthony 145
Knyvet, Sir Thomas 13,
Knyvet, Sir Edmund 80, 150, 276–7, 278, 313, 357
Kynton, John 337
L’Amant Mal Traité de Sa Mie
(Clerke) 42
Lambeth 20, 148, 158, 159, 266, 287, 288
Landrecy, siege of 204–8, 218, 219, 253, 283
Landriano, battle of, 1529 51
Lascelles, John 155–6, 157, 160, 253
Lay of the Last Minstrel
(Scott) 131–2, 181
Leigh, John, of Stockwell 183–5, 343, 344, 345
Leland, John 41, 199
Lestrange, Nicholas 305
Lewis, C. S. 179
Lincolnshire 114–16, 119
literary patronage 41
Lloyd, David 346
London, city of 189–90, 208
London Charterhouse, the 94
Lovell, Sir Francis 304
Luther, Martin 96–7, 197
Lyons 75–6, 78
Mackeral, Dr, Abbot of Barlings 119
Mai, Miguel 327
Mallard, Jean 341
Manners, Lady Anne 110
Manners, Henry, Second Earl of Rutland 110, 309–10
Manners, Thomas, First Earl of Rutland 110, 153, 327
Manox, Henry 157, 158
Marguerite of Navarre 66, 71–2, 95
Marillac, Charles de 154–5, 159
Marlowe, Christopher 178
Marney, Elizabeth 39
Marot, Clément 73, 75–6
Marquise 247
Martin (servant) 298, 299, 302, 360
Martyn, Richard 360
Mary, Queen of England 48, 53, 58–9, 60–1, 89, 103, 104, 106, 109, 110, 114, 133, 140, 184, 197, 315, 343
Mary, Queen of Scots 110, 189, 281, 316
Mary of Hungary, Regent of the Netherlands 108
Mary Rose
(ship) 224
Mason, H. A. 178–9
Master, Thomas 354
Matsys, Cornelis 295
Maxey 155
meals 29–31
medical treatment 19, 29, 38–9
Medici, Catherine de’ 53, 69, 75
Merry Wives of Windsor, The
(Shakespeare) 181
Milton, John 178, 182
Montague, Lord 139–40
Montmorency, Anne de 70
Montreuil, siege of 211–18, 219, 228, 360
More, Thomas 17, 40, 47, 50, 64, 72, 94, 97, 100, 169, 189
Moriano, Hironimo 98–9
Morison, Richard 138