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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
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain KG PC (c. 1482 – 21 March 1540). was an English peer and courtier.
Career
John de Vere, born about 1482, was the son of John de Vere and Alice Kilrington (alias Colbroke), and the g ...
, and
Elizabeth Trussell. She married firstly,
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516/1517 – 19 January 1547), Order of the Garter, KG, was an English nobleman, politician and poet. He was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry and was the last known person executed at the instan ...
,
son of
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, (1473 – 25 August 1554) was a prominent English politician and nobleman of the Tudor era. He was an uncle of two of the wives of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, both of whom were beheade ...
, and his wife
Elizabeth Stafford
Elizabeth Stafford, also known as Dame Elizabeth Drury and – in the years prior to her death in 1599 – Dame (Lady) Elizabeth Scott, was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I. She and her first husband, Sir William Drury, entertained ...
, by whom she had two sons and three daughters:
*
Jane Howard, Countess of Westmorland
Jane Neville (''née'' Howard), Countess of Westmorland (1533/37 – buried 30 June 1593), was an English noblewoman.
Family
Jane Howard, born between 1533 and 1537, was the daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and Frances de Vere. ...
(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 ...
.
*
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, (Kenninghall, Norfolk, 10 March 1536Tower Hill, London, 2 June 1572) was an English nobleman and politician. Although from a family with strong Roman Catholic leanings, he was raised a Protestant. He was a ...
(10 March 1536 – 2 June 1572), married (1) Mary FitzAlan (2)
Margaret Audley (3) Elizabeth Leyburne.
*
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton
Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, KG (25 February 154015 June 1614), was an important English aristocrat and courtier. He was suspect as a crypto-Catholic throughout his life, and went through periods of royal disfavour, in which his reputati ...
(25 February 1540 – 15 June 1614), who died unmarried.
*Katherine Howard, Baroness Berkeley (d. 7 April 1596) who married
Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley
Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley, KB (26 November 1534 – 26 November 1613) was an English peer and politician. He was Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of Gloucestershire. He was the grandfather of George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley.
F ...
.
*Margaret Howard, Baroness Scrope of Bolton (b.1547) who married
Henry Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton
Henry Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton, KG (c. 1534 – 13 June 1592) was the son and heir of John Scrope, 8th Baron Scrope of Bolton and Catherine Clifford, daughter of Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland.
Life
Henry Scrope, a loyal s ...
.
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
Thomas Steyning (died c. 1582?), of Earl Soham, Suffolk, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Castle Rising in 1559.
Family
He married Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey and had two children: a son He ...
, by whom she had two children, Henry and Mary. Mary Steyning married
Charles Seckford
Charles Seckford (1551–1592), of Great Bealings, Suffolk, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Aldeburgh in 1572.
Charles married Mary, daughter of Thomas Steyning and Frances de Vere
Frances How ...
.
She died at
Earl Soham
Earl Soham is a small settlement in Suffolk, England. It is on the A1120 road and is west of the town of Framlingham.
Earl Soham once belonged to the Earls of Norfolk, the Bigod family (sometimes spelt "Bigot" in old texts), who also owned near ...
, Suffolk and was buried at
Framlingham Church in Suffolk. In 1614, her first husband was later reburied next to her.
References
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.
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1516 births
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English countesses
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Frances
Frances is a French and English given name of Latin origin. In Latin the meaning of the name Frances is 'from France' or 'free one.' The male version of the name in English is Francis. The original Franciscus, meaning "Frenchman", comes from the ...
Frances
Frances is a French and English given name of Latin origin. In Latin the meaning of the name Frances is 'from France' or 'free one.' The male version of the name in English is Francis. The original Franciscus, meaning "Frenchman", comes from the ...
Year of birth uncertain
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