William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham

William Howard
Baron Howard of Effingham
Spouse(s)	Katherine Broughton Margaret Gamage
Issue Agnes Howard Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham Sir William Howard Edward Howard Henry Howard Douglas Howard Mary Howard Frances Howard Martha Howard Katherine Howard Joan Howard Agnes Howard
Noble family	House of Howard-Effingham
Father	Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
Mother	Agnes Tilney
Born	1510
Died	12 January 1573

William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham (c. 1510 – 12 January 1573), was the eldest son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk by his second wife, Agnes Tilney. Howard served four monarchs, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, in various official capacities, most notably on diplomatic missions and as Lord Admiral and Lord Chamberlain of the Household.

Lord William Howard was born about 1510, the eldest son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk by his second wife, Agnes Tilney, the daughter of Hugh Tilney of Skirbeck and Boston, Lincolnshire and a daughter of Walter Tailboys.

Howard was brought to court at a young age after completing his education at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1531 he was sent on an embassy to Scotland by King Henry VIII, and accompanied the King to Boulogne in October 1532. In May 1533, as deputy to his stepbrother, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, he served as Earl Marshal at the coronation of his niece, Anne Boleyn, the daughter of his half sister, Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire. On 10 September 1533, Howard bore the canopy over his great-niece princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth I). In 1534 Howard went to Scotland. His instructions including getting the measurements of James V of Scotland from the Bishop of Aberdeen, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland. Then Howard's tailor would make Henry VIII's nephew a new suit of clothes as a present. Howard would then broach the subject of the two Kings meeting in person. In February 1535 he was sent again to Scotland to invest James V with the Order of the Garter and brought a present of 'great horses.' Howard met James V at Stirling Castle on Good Friday. They discussed a possible meeting of the two Kings at Newcastle at Michaelmas. Margaret Tudor praised his abilities and wrote that her son James V, "lykkis hym right weill."