Charles Howard (courtier)

Charles Howard was a gentleman at the court of Henry VIII of England.

Charles Howard
Known forLover of Margaret Douglas; brother of Catherine Howard
Partner(s)Margaret Douglas
Parent(s)Lord Edmund Howard
Joyce Culpeper
RelativesCatherine Howard (sister)
Sir George Howard (brother)
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (paternal uncle)
FamilyHoward

Howard was the second son of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, and the elder brother of Sir George Howard. As a scion of the mighty Howard family, his uncle, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was able to find him a position at court. Charles' fortunes improved in 1540, when his sister Catherine Howard became the King's fifth wife. Charles went on to create a mesalliance with the King's niece, Margaret Douglas, the daughter of Henry's sister, Margaret Tudor, queen dowager of Scotland.[1]

Ancestry

References
  1. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/MargaretDouglas.htm%5B%5D
  2. Richardson II 2011, p. 411.
  3. Richardson II 2011, p. 409.
  4. Richardson II 2011, p. 412.
  5. Lord Edmund Howard, Catherine Howard's father, was the brother of Lady Elizabeth Howard, mother of Anne Boleyn (second wife of Henry VIII of England), making Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn first cousins.
  6. Richardson II 2011, pp. 415-416.
  7. Richardson II 2011, p. 415.
  8. Richardson II 2011, pp. 414–416.
  9. Richardson IV 2011, pp. 129–130.
  10. Richardson IV 2011, pp. 107–108.
  11. Richardson IV 2011, p. 108.
  12. Richardson IV 2011, p. 108.
  13. Richardson IV 2011, p. 107.


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