SIR KNIGHT., MP, Sheriff of Essex John Howard CRUSADER 1365 AUG 22 8999

SIR KNIGHT., MP, SHERIFF OF ESSEX
John Howard CRUSADER Sex: Male

Birth Date	1365 AUG 22 Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England
Death Date	1437 Al Quds or Jerusalem, Niyabat al Quds, Mamluk Sultanate
Father	Robert Howard Knight, of Wiggenhall - East Winch and Tendring	Born: 1336	Died: 1388
Mother	Margaret de Scales	Born: 1339	Died: 1416

John Howard Notes:	Biography John was a descendant of Sir William Howard, j.c.p. under Edward I, who possibly came of burgess stock from Bishopâ€™s Lynn. His grandfather, Sir John Howard, served as admiral of the northern fleet (1335-7), and by the mid 14th century the family was of quasi-baronial importance with interests and connexions scattered throughout East Anglia. The Howard estates, accumulated through marriage and purchase, included five manors near Bishopâ€™s Lynn and the property of Johnâ€™s grandmother, the de Boys heiress, at Fersfield and Garboldisham in south Norfolk and Brook Hall near Dunwich in Suffolk. Johnâ€™s father died in 1389, when he was about 23, but his mother lived on until 1416. Most of the inheritance passed to him at his fatherâ€™s death, however, and that same year his landed holdings were augmented considerably following the demise of his father-in-law, Lord Plaiz.2 Howardâ€™s marriage to Lord Plaizâ€™s only daughter had been purchased nine years earlier for 300 marks, and now, besides the Plaiz manors at Toft, Weeting and Knapton in Norfolk, he acquired properties outside East Anglia, namely â€˜Benetfield Buryâ€™ in Stansted Mountfichet, Oakley and Moze (Essex), Chelsworth (Suffolk) and Fowlmere (Cambridgeshire). These estates, valued at over Â£117 a year when his wife died in 1391, he retained for life â€˜by the courtesyâ€™. Howardâ€™s second wife brought him properties on the border of Essex and Suffolk, the most notable being the manor of Stoke Nayland. The estates thus acquired by marriage qualified Sir John for election to Parliament by three shires. In 1404 he was numbered among the few landowners of England whose net incomes amounted to over 500 marks a year.3
Notes:	Howardâ€™s career had begun by March 1387 when he was already a knight and serving at sea in the fleet commanded by Richard, earl of Arundel. He was closely connected with Sir Simon Felbrigg, a cousin on his motherâ€™s side, with whom he was associated in a religious foundation in 1392, and it may have been Felbrigg who introduced him to the royal household. (Sir Simon had married a kinswoman of Queen Anne and from 1395 appeared on ceremonial occasions as the Kingâ€™s standard-bearer.) On 10 Mar. 1394 Howard was retained by Richard II for life with an annuity of Â£40. That September he joined the Kingâ€™s expedition in Ireland, returning in the following spring. The cancellation of his appointment as sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in December 1396 was evidently of no lasting political significance, for he was nominated as a j.p. in Suffolk in the following July. Howardâ€™s election to Parliament in the autumn of 1397 probably owed much to his position as one of the Kingâ€™s retainers, for Richard required supporters in the Commons for the enforcement of his stringent measures against the Appellants of 1387-8. During the recess he was commissioned to seize and supervise estates forfeited by Gloucester, Arundel and Warwick, and in December he was instructed to treat with the men of Essex and Hertfordshire for payment of a communal fine of Â£2,000 and to return to Parliament when it re-assembled at Shrewsbury ready, in conjunction with his fellow shire knight, Robert Tey, to give a personal account to the King of that commissionâ€™s activities. When Richard set off on his second voyage to Ireland, in the spring of 1399, Sir John again accompanied him.4
Notes:	Howardâ€™s royal annuity was not confirmed by Henry IV, but he soon accommodated himself to the new regime and his influence as a landed magnate remained unimpaired. He continued to serve on royal commissions and as a j.p. without interruption, and he now became steward of the liberty of Bury St. Edmunds. Sir Johnâ€™s chief interests lay not with his hereditary estates bordering the Wash, but rather in the property acquired by his marriages. Thus, he officiated as sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1400-1 (during which term he was summoned to the great council of August 1401), and of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1401-3; and it was as knight of the shire for Cambridgeshire that he was returned to Parliament for the second time, in 1407.5 But his family holdings ensured that at least to some extent he would be active in Norfolk. Earlier in his career he had devoted some attention to Raveningham college, an important foundation with which his father and his father-in-law, Lord Plaiz, had been much concerned, and he assisted in the removal of the college first to Norton Subcourse (Norfolk) and then to Mettingham castle (Suffolk). Something of his standing in East Anglian society is suggested by that of his associates: for instance, his brother-in-law, Constantine, Lord Clifton, owned Buckenham castle and other substantial estates, of which he was a feoffee. He served as trustee of the properties of Joan, Lady Fitzwalter (d.1409); among those given a fiduciary interest in his own estates was another kinsman, Robert, 5th Lord Scales; and in 1413 he was named as supervisor of the will of Maud de Vere, dowager countess of Oxford. It is not known precisely when he joined the circle of Joan de Bohun, countess of Hereford, but he had evidently done so by 1402 and thereafter he became close to the countess by whom he was engaged as a councillor. It seems likely that his son John (the issue of his first marriage) was a member of Joanâ€™s household, for when the young man made his will in 1409 he named her, along with his father, as overseer. Others connected with Countess Joan included Robert Tey, for whom Howard acted as a feoffee, and Sir William Marney, who asked him to be godfather to one of his sons. It was in association with Marney that Howard became a trustee of the estates of the Essex lawyer, Richard Baynard. Then, too, he was well known to Sir Thomas Erpingham, formerly chamberlain to Henry IV and steward of the household of Henry V, who after the death of Howardâ€™s son John married his widow, Joan Walton.6
Notes:	As sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1414-15, Howard became involved in preparations for Henry Vâ€™s first expedition to France, and in January 1416 he was pardoned Â£180 charged on his account in consideration of the expenses incurred at that time. In the summer of 1420 there was grave danger of a breach of the peace at the Suffolk assizes between the followers of Howard and Sir Thomas Kerdestonâ€ , a distant kinsman of his wife, and the prospect of a riot prompted Sir Thomas Erpingham to inform the Kingâ€™s Council so that both men might be warned to cease â€˜alle suche gederyng of strengthe and of meigntenanceâ€™. Both Howard and Kerdeston were described as â€˜weel ykynde and of gret allyaunceâ€™, able to gain support â€˜as weel of lordys of estate as of othre gentilmen as knyghtis and squyersâ€™.7 Howard naturally found no difficulty in securing marriages for his children and grandchild with important gentry families. Young John had been married to the Walton heiress, and now, in 1420, Howard obtained for Robert, his elder son by his second wife, the hand of Margaret Mowbray, daughter of Thomas, duke of Norfolk (d.1399), and sister to John, the Earl Marshal, who was to be acknowledged duke in 1425. One eventual outcome of this match was that part of the inheritance of the great comital houses of Mowbray and Fitzalan became vested in the Howard family in the person of Sir Johnâ€™s grandson, Johnâ€ , who was to be summoned to Parliament as Lord Howard in 1470 and created Earl Marshal and duke of Norfolk by Richard III. Meanwhile, in about 1425 Howard secured for his grand daughter Elizabeth (the only child of his son John) the hand of John de Vere, the young earl of Oxford, who had refused a marriage proposed to him by the Kingâ€™s Council in order to wed her. The price was high: Sir John settled on Elizabeth many of the family properties near Lynn and all of the former de Boys manors; and he assured de Vere that she would inherit the Plaiz and Walton estates of her parents. These settlements were to lead, after his death, to bitter feuds between the earl of Oxford and Lord Howard, which influenced their fateful alignment in the civil wars.8 After his third Parliament, in 1422, Howard became less active than before in local administration, although he continued to be a j.p. in Suffolk and to serve as a commissioner to raise royal loans. In February 1436 he himself was requested for a loan of 100 marks in aid of the duke of Yorkâ€™s expedition to France. A year or so later he set out on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, only to die at Jerusalem on 17 Nov. 1437. His body was apparently brought back for burial next to his second wife, at Stoke Nayland.9
John Howard Will:	died in Jerusalem on 17 November 1437. His remains were brought back to England and buried beside his second wife at Stoke-by-Nayland

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Alice Tendring LADY Sex: Female

Birth Date	1365 Tendring Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England
Death Date	1426
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Alice Tendring LADY Notes:	Alice TENDRING7,191,1194,1195 was born about 1365 in Tendring Hall, Stoke By Nayland, Suffolk, England. 1194 She died on 18 Oct 1467 in Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England. 1194 She was buried in Stoke Neyland, Suffolk, England.1194 2 SOUR S2511686 Spouse: Sheriff Of Essex John HOWARD. Sheriff Of Essex John HOWARD and Alice TENDRING were married in 1387 in Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England. Children were: Margaret HOWARD, Henry Esq. HOWARD, [Sir Knight] Robert HOWARD, Henry HOWARD.
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Robert Howard of Stoke Neyland SIR KNIGHT

b.1385
d.1437

Alice Tendring

Margaret de Mowbray

1 John Howard SIR 1st Duke of Norfolk b.1421

Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk b.1443

Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk b.1490

Catherine 1st wife of Howard b.1496

Henry Howard Earl of Surrey b.1517

Mary Howard b.1518

Thomas Howard 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon b.1520

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Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-
Knight, of Wiggenhall - East Winch and Tendring Robert Howard b.1336 d.1388	SIR Admiral of the Navy John Howard II b.1310 East Winch, Norfolk, England d.1388 See Notes	SIR KNIGHT Sheriff of Norfolk John Howard b.1276 d.1331	SIR KNIGHT Justice of Common Pleas William Howard WILLIAM OF WIGGENHALL b.1242 Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England d.1308 See Notes
				Knight, of Wiggenhall - East Winch and Tendring Robert Howard b.1336 d.1388
			Alice Fitton b.1246 Norfolk, England d.1310 See Notes	SIR Edmond Fitton of Fitton b.1234 d.1296 See Notes	Ellis Fitton b.1210	Alan de Fitton b.1190 d.1251 See Notes
							Alice Fitton b.1246 Norfolk, England d.1310 See Notes
						Alice Fitton b.1246 Norfolk, England d.1310 See Notes


		LADY Joan Plantagenet de cornwall b.1285 d.1342 See Notes	Richard de Cornwall, of Thunnock b.1252 d.1296 See Notes	1st Earl of Cornwall King of the Romans Richard plantagenet de Cornwall plantagenet b.1209 d.1272 See Notes	KING of England John I LACKLAND KING of England JOHN I b.1166 d.1216 See Notes	king of England Henry II CURTMANTLE KING of England Henry II b.1133 d.1189 See Notes	Count of Anjou, Maine and Mortain GEOFFREY Plantagenet, d'Blois V THE FAIR - THE HANSOME House of::Plantagenet (Founder) b.1113 d.1151 See Notes	KING of JERUSALEM Fulk of Anjou V THE YOUNGER b.1089 d.1143 See Notes	count of Anjou Fulk IV THE SURLY Fulk le RÃ©chin b.1043 d.1109 See Notes	MORE>
								countess of Maine Ermengarde de Beaugency b.1092 d.1126 See Notes
							Empress Matilda of England and Queen of Germany Matilda HOLY ROMAN EMPRESS b.1102 d.1167 See Notes	KING OF ENGLAND Henry I BEAUCLERC b.1068 d.1135	king of england William WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR b.1024 d.1087	MORE>
								Matilda of Scotland MATILDA THE GOOD b.1079 d.1118
						Queen consort of Castile Eleanor d Aquitaine b.1122 d.1204
							Queen consort of Castile Eleanor d Aquitaine b.1122 d.1204
					Queen Consort of England Isabella of Angouleme pp b.1188 d.1246
						Queen Consort of England Isabella of Angouleme pp b.1188 d.1246
				Queen Consort of England Isabella of Angouleme pp b.1188 d.1246


Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024-persons	-
Margaret de Scales b.1339 d.1416

2 persons	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 Persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-

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