HOWARD FAMILY
II. EFFINGHAM / NOTTINGHAM LINE
William HOWARD (1° B. Howard of Effingham)
Born: ABT 1510
Acceded: 11 Mar 1553
Died: 21 Jan 1572/3, Hampton Court Palace, Richmond, England
Buried: 29 Jan 1572/3, Reigate Church
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Thomas HOWARD (2º D. Norfolk)
Mother: Agnes TILNEY (D. Norfolk)
Married 1: Catherine BROUGHTON (d. 23 Apr 1535 - bur. Lambeth) (dau. of Sir John Broughton and Anne Sapcote, C. Bedford) BEF 18 Jun 1531
Children:
1. Agnes (Anne) HOWARD (M. Winchester)
Married 2: Margaret GAMAGE (B. Howard of Effingham) (b. ABT 1515 - d. 1 May 1581 - bur. 18 May 1581, Reigate) (dau. of Sir Thomas Gamage and Margaret St. John) BEF 1536
Children:
2. Douglas HOWARD (B. Sheffield of Butterwick)
3. Charles HOWARD (1° E. Nottingham)
4. William HOWARD of Lingfield (Sir)
5. Frances HOWARD (C. Hertford)
7. Henry HOWARD
8. Edward HOWARD (b. ABT 1550 - d. 15 Apr 1554)
9. Mary HOWARD (B. Sutton of Dudley)
10. Catherine HOWARD (Maid of Honour) (d. 22 Sep 1598)
11. Margaret HOWARD
12. Thomas HOWARD (b. ABT 1561 - d. 1600)
13. Dorothy HOWARD (b. ABT 1558)
14. Anne HOWARD (b. ABT 1560)
15. Elizabeth HOWARD(b. ABT 1562)
16. Richard HOWARD (b. ABT 1564)
Agnes (Anne) HOWARD (M. Winchester)
Died: 18 Nov 1601
Notes: See her Biography.
Father: William HOWARD (1º B. Howard of Effingham)
Mother: Catherine BROUGHTON
Married: William PAULET (3° M. Winchester) 20 Jun 1544 / 10 Nov 1548
Children:
1. William PAULET (4° M. Winchester)
2. Anne PAULET
Douglas HOWARD (B. Sheffield of Butterwick)
Born: 1545
Died: BEF 11 Dec 1608
Buried: 11 Dec 1608 St. Margaret's, Westminster, England
Notes: See her Biography.
Father: William HOWARD (1º B. Howard of Effingham)
Mother: Margaret GAMAGE (B. Howard of Effingham)
Married 1: John SHEFFIELD (2° B. Sheffield of Butterwick) ABT 1562
Children:
1. Elizabeth SHEFFIELD (C. Ormonde)
2. Edmund SHEFFIELD (1º E. Mulgrave)
Married 2: Robert DUDLEY (1° E. Leicester) May 1573, Esher, secretly -Divorced
Children:
Married 3: Edward STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir) 29 Nov 1579
Children:
4. Son STAFFORD5. Son STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1554
Died: 14 May 1598, London, Middlesex, England
Buried: Saint Benedict, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Notes: Possibly a twin for Martha. Maid of Honour to Elizabeth I for many years. She spoke fluent French and had many admirers. In the 1570s, Thomas Conningsby was in love with her and in a tournament carried a banner with the device of a white lion (an allusion to the Howard family crest) devouring a young cony and the words “Call you this love?” In 1573, she was her sister Douglas’s rival for the Earl of Leicester’s attentions and soon after became the object of a nine-year courtship by Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford. They married in 1582, but the Queen still kept her “Franke” at court. In 1591 the Hertfords entertained the Queen at Elvetham. Shortly thereafter, when Hertford attempted to establish the legitimacy of his sons by Lady Catherine Grey, he was imprisoned. Lady Hertford was said to have gone mad with fear for his life. The Queen wrote to reassure her that she had no intention of executing Hertford. Frances returned to court and subsequently obtained her husband’s release.
Father: William HOWARD (1º B. Howard of Effingham)
Mother: Margaret GAMAGE (B. Howard of Effingham)
Married: Edward SEYMOUR (2° C. Hertford) Nov 1595
Born: ABT 1555
Died: 14 May 1598 / 24 Sep 1605
Notes: possibly a twin for Frances.
Father: William HOWARD (1º B. Howard of Effingham)
Mother: Margaret GAMAGE (B. Howard of Effingham)
Married: George BOURCHIER (Sir) Nov 1582, Effingham, Syrrey, England
Children:
1. Thomas BOURCHIER
2. Henry BOURCHIER (5º E. Bath)
Mary HOWARD (B. Sutton of Dudley)
Died: 21 Aug 1600
Buried: St.Margaret's, Westminster
Notes: Dates given for her birth range from 1537 to 1548. Maid of Honour to Elizabeth I before 1566. In that year, the Queen presented her with a purple velvet loose gown, and at some point before his death that year, poet Richard Edwards wrote of her "Howarde is not haughte/But of such smylinge cheare/That wolde aleve eche gentill harte/His love to holde full clere". Some years before her marriage, she figured in a case for a report says she had contracted a secret marriage to Thomas Southwell (b. 1542 - d. 1572), and although they both denied it, the matter was taken seriously enough to require investigation by Mathew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury. Once he determined that no marriage had taken place, Mary married Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley, in 1570, as his third wife. They had no children. She remarried in 1587. Her second husband was Richard Mompesson and she was the first of his three wives.
Father: William HOWARD (1º B. Howard of Effingham)
Mother: Margaret GAMAGE (B. Howard of Effingham)
Married 1: Edward SUTTON (4° B. Sutton of Dudley) 1570
Married 2: Richard MOMPESSON (b. 1548 - d. 1627) (son of William Mompesson and Brigitte Brown) AFT 1586
Charles HOWARD (1° E. Nottingham)
Born: 1536
Acceded: 22 Oct 1597
Died: 14 Dec 1624, Haling House near Croydon, Surrey
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: William HOWARD (1º B. Howard of Effingham)
Mother: Margaret GAMAGE (B. Howard of Effingham)
Married 1: Catherine CAREY (C. Nottingham) Jul 1563
Children:
1. Frances HOWARD (C. Kildare/B. Cobham)
2. William HOWARD (3° B. Howard of Effingham)
3. Charles HOWARD (2° E. Nottingham)
5. Elizabeth HOWARD (C. Carrick)
Married 2: Margaret STUART (C. Nottingham) Sep 1603
Children:
6. Charles HOWARD (3° E. Nottingham)
Frances HOWARD (C. Kildare/B. Cobham)
Buried: 11 Jul 1628, Westminster Abbey
Notes: After Kildare death, she returned to England and became a lady in
waiting, vying with a maid of honor, Margaret
Radcliffe, for the
attentions of Henry Brooke, Baron Cobham. She wed Cobham c. 1600/01 but they did not remain on good terms
long. She also feuded for many years with Elizabeth Throckmorton, Lady
Raleigh, over her refusal to help Elizabeth win the
Queen's forgiveness
for her clandestine marriage. In the "Calendar of State Papers - Ireland- we read : "The
Queen to the vice treasurer for the Countess of Kildare (1602) Francis
(sic) Cobham, late Countess of Kildare and late dowager of Henry, the
late Earl of Kildare, has a jointure in Ireland, the profits whereof since our
alteration of our coin there have become less beneficial to her, by reason of
the charge there on exchange of moneys of that standard into the standard of
England, where she lives in attendance upon our person.
Out of respect for her we are ready to extend to her a favour
which we do not grant to others, and to declare that her jointure
shall be of such value to her as if there had not been any change
in our moneys. For every 100l of the new standard which she
assigns shall hereafter deliver to you, you shall cause her to be
paid 100l sterling here, without any defalcation for the exchange
or any other charge which, by our late proclamation, is laid upon
the exchange of moneys of Ireland into England; provided that the
Countess do not bring to be exchanged in any year more than 700l."
Frances was obviously a favorite of
Queen Elizabeth to have been granted this financial advantage.
At Elizabeth Tudor’s death, Frances was one of two Countesses appointed to lead a delegation of ladies to meet Queen Anne. They were supposed to wait in Berwick, but Frances rushed on to Edinburgh in the hope of winning a position in the Privy Chamber. She did serve as Princess Elizabeth’s governess for a time. Frances’s husband was involved in the plot to assassinate King James and was sent to the Tower in Jul 1603. He was released in 1617 in ill health and died in poverty soon afterward. Frances attempted to obtain a pardon for him, but only in order to save the estate. After his death, she was granted lands worth £5000, but they were held in trust for her by her father and two friends. She continued to occupy Cobham Hall, where the King visited her in 1622. In 1620, she took charge of her granddaughter, Mary Stuart O’Donnell, intending to make the girl her heir, but Mary ran away in 1626 rather than marry the Protestant suitor Frances had picked out for her.
Father: Charles HOWARD (1° E. Nottingham) Mother: Catherine CAREY (C. Nottingham) Married 1: Henry "Na Tuagh" FITZGERALD (12° E. Kildare) BEF 22 Feb 1590 Children: 2. Elizabeth FITZGERALD Married 2: Henry BROOKE (6° B. Cobham) contract 27 May 1601 |
Frances Howard, Countess of Kildare by Marcus Gheeraerts |
Father: Charles HOWARD (1° E. Nottingham)
Mother: Catherine CAREY (C. Nottingham)
Married: Richard LEVENSON (Sir)
Died: Jan 1645/6 Buried: 31 Mar 1646, Greenwich, Kent, England Notes: Maid of Honour to Elizabeth I. On 10 Jun 1605, she had an annuity granted of £200 per ann on the decease of Elizabeth Leighton. Father: Charles HOWARD (1° E. Nottingham) Mother: Catherine CAREY (C. Nottingham) Married 1: Robert SOUTHWELL (Sir) 1583 Children: Married 2: John STEWART (E. Carrick) 26 Oct 1604 Chelsea, Middlesex, England Children: 4. Margaret STEWART |
Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Carrick by an unknown artist Coll. of Major Harold Pearson |
William HOWARD (3° B. Howard of Effingham)
Born: 27 Dec 1577, Effingham, Surrey, England
Christened: 3 Jan 1578, Reigate, England
Acceded: 22 Jun 1596, Effingham, Surrey, England
Died: 28 Nov 1615, Hampton, Middlesex, England
Buried: Chelsea
Father: Charles HOWARD (1° E. Nottingham)
Mother: Catherine CAREY (C. Nottingham)
Married: Anne St. JOHN (B. Howard of Effingham) 7 Feb 1596/7, Chelsea
Children:
1. Elizabeth HOWARD (C. Peterborough)
Elizabeth HOWARD (C. Peterborough)
Born: 19 Jan 1602/03, Arundel House
Died: Nov 1671, Drayton, Northampton, England
Buried: 18 Nov 1671, Chelsea
Notes: The Complete Peerage vol.V,p.10,note e.
Father: William HOWARD (3° B. Howard of Effingham)
Mother: Anne St. JOHN (B. Howard of Effingham)
Married: John MORDAUNT (1° E. Peterborough) 31 Mar 1620, Pre-Nuptial / BEF 7 Apr 1621
Children:
1. Henry MORDAUNT (2° E. Peterborough)
2. John MORDAUNT (V. Mordaunt) (b. 18 Jun 1626, Lowick, Northampton, England - d. 05 Jun 1675, Parson's Green, Middlesex, England) (m. Elizabeth Carey ABT 1656)
3. Elizabeth MORDAUNT (d. BEF Jun 1677) (m. Thomas Howard, 2º B. Howard of Escrick)
4. William MORDAUNT
Charles HOWARD (2° E. Nottingham)
Born: 17 Sep 1579, The Manor Place, Bletchingley
Died: 3 Oct 1642, Leatherhead
Buried: Reigate
Father: Charles HOWARD (1° E. Nottingham)
Mother: Catherine CAREY (C. Nottingham)
Married 1: Charity WITH (d. 18 Dec 1618 - bur. 20 Dec 1618, Fletching) (dau. of Robert White) 19 May 1597 Sheffield, Fletching
Married 2: Mary COKAYNE (C. Nottingham) (bapt. 12 Oct 1598 London, St. Andrew's Undershaft - d. 6 Feb 1651 - bur. Reigate) (dau. of Sir William Cokayne of Rushton, Lord Mayor of London and Mary Morris) 22 Apr 1620, St. Peter le Poor, London, Middlesex, England
Charles HOWARD (3° E. Nottingham)
Born: 25 Dec 1610, Haling House
Died: 26 Apr 1681, Mortlake, Surrey, England
Father: Charles HOWARD (1° E. Nottingham)
Mother: Margaret STUART (C. Nottingham)
Married: Arabella SMITH (C. Nottingham) (d. 16 Jan 1682 - bur. St.Mary, Savoy, Midx) (dau. of Edward Smith) BEF 30 Jun 1627
Born: ABT 1612
Father: Charles HOWARD (1° E. Nottingham)
Mother: Margaret STUART (C. Nottingham)
Married: Alexander STEWART (B. Garlies) 29 Dec 1627 London
William HOWARD of Lingfield (Sir)
Born: ABT 1540, Lingfield, Surrey, England
Acceded: Lingfield, Sussex, England
Died: 2 Sep 1600, Haling House, Croyden, Surrey, England
Father: William HOWARD (1º B. Howard of Effingham)
Mother: Margaret GAMAGE (B. Howard of Effingham)
Married: Frances GOULDWELL (d. ABT 1614) (dau. of William Gouldwell)
Children:
3. Charles HOWARD (Sir)
4. Honora HOWARD
Died: 1620
Father: William HOWARD of Lingfield (Sir)
Mother: Frances GOULDWELL
Died: 7 Jul 1651
Father: William HOWARD of Lingfield (Sir)
Mother: Frances GOULDWELL
Married: Jane MONSON (dau. of Sir William Monson and Dorothy Wallop) 4 Jul 1604
Children:
Died: 20 Mar 1673
Father: Francis HOWARD (Sir)
Mother: Jane MONSON
Married: Frances COURTHOPE (d. 6 May 1681) (dau. of Sir George Courthope)
Children:
1. Francis HOWARD (5° B. Howard of Effingham)
3. Jane HOWARD (m. Thomas Methold)
Died: 13 Dec 1684
Father: Charles HOWARD of Eastwick
Mother: Frances COURTHOPE
Married: Anne KIDDER (dau. of Thomas Kidder)
Children:
1. Thomas HOWARD
Francis HOWARD (5° B. Howard of Effingham)
Born: 1643
Died: 30 Mar 1695
Buried: Lingfield
Father: Charles HOWARD of Eastwick
Mother: Frances COURTHOPE
Married 1: Philadelphia PELHAM 8 Jul 1673
Children:
1. Thomas HOWARD (6° B. Howard of Effingham)
2. Francis HOWARD (1° E. Effingham)
3. Philadelphia HOWARD
4. Margaret Frances HOWARD
5. Elizabeth HOWARD (m.1 William Roberts - m.2 William Hutcheson)
Married 2: Susan FELTON (dau. of Sir Henry Felton of Playford, 2° Bt. and Susanna Tollemache) 20 Jan 1690, St.Giles's-in-the-Fields