Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
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Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk by Hans Holbein the Younger, Royal Collection. He wears the Collar of the Order of the Garter and holds two staffs of office, one of the Earl Marshal
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Anne of York Lady Elizabeth Stafford |
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| Noble family | Howard |
| Father | Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk |
| Mother | Elizabeth Tilney |
| Born | 1473 |
| Died | 25 August 1554 (aged 80–81) Kenninghall |
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St. Michael's Church at Framlingham in Suffolk 52°13′21″N 1°20′40″E / 52.2224°N 1.3444°E |
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk KG PC (1473 – 25 August 1554) (Earl of Surrey from 1514) was a prominent Tudor politician. He was an uncle of two of the wives of King Henry VIII, namely Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and played a major role in the machinations effecting these royal marriages. After falling from favour in 1546 he was stripped of the dukedom and imprisoned in the Tower, avoiding execution when Henry VIII died a year later. He was released on the accession in 1553 of the Catholic Queen Queen Mary I, whom he aided in securing her throne, thus setting the stage for tensions between his Catholic family and the Protestant royal line that would be continued by Mary's half-sister Queen Elizabeth I.
He was the eldest son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443–1524) by his first wife, Elizabeth Tilney (d. 1497), the daughter of Frederick Tilney and widow of Humphrey Bourchier. He was descended in the female line from Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, the sixth son of King Edward I. In 1485 both his father (then styled Earl of Surrey) and his grandfather John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, had fought for King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, in which the latter was killed, thus bringing the Tudor King Henry VII to the throne. Due to their alliegance to the losing side, the Howard family's titles became forfeit.
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