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Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey ( de Vere; c. 1517 – 30 June 1577) was the daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell. She married firstly, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and his wife Elizabeth Stafford, by whom she had two sons and three daughters:
* Jane Howard, Countess of Westmorland (1533/1537 – buried 30 June 1593), who married
DeVere Family
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Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey ( de Vere; c. 1517 – 30 June 1577) was the daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell. She married firstly, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and his wife Elizabeth Stafford, by whom she had two sons and three daughters:
* Jane Howard, Countess of Westmorland (1533/1537 – buried 30 June 1593), who married Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland
Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland (18 August 154216 November 1601) was an English nobleman and one of the leaders of the Rising of the North in 1569.
He was the son of Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland and Lady Anne Manners, second d ...
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* Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (10 March 1536 – 2 June 1572), married (1) Mary FitzAlan (2) Margaret Audley (3) Elizabeth Leyburne.
* Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton (25 February 1540 – 15 June 1614), who died unmarried.
*Katherine Howard, Baroness Berkeley (d. 7 April 1596) who married Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley.
*Margaret Howard, Baroness Scrope of Bolton (b.1547) who married Henry Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton.
Late in 1546, while Frances was expecting her fifth child (Margaret), her husband was accused of treason and he was subsequently executed in January 1547.
She married secondly, to Thomas Steyning, by whom she had two children, Henry and Mary. Mary Steyning married Charles Seckford.
She died at Earl Soham, Suffolk and was buried at Framlingham Church in Suffolk. In 1614, her first husband was later reburied next to her.
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Further reading
DeVere Family
Tudorplace.com.ar. Accessed 16 February 2008
stanford.edu Profile
stanford.edu. Accessed 23 May 2008 * Brenan, Gerald, and Edward Phillips Statham
googlebooks ''The House of Howard.'' London: Hutchinson & co, 1907
Retrieved 16 February 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:Surrey, Frances de Vere, Countess of 1516 births 1577 deaths English countesses British courtesy countesses Daughters of British earls 16th-century English women 16th-century English nobility Frances Frances Year of birth uncertain Wives of knights