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Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton KG (25 February 1540 – 15 June 1614) was an important English aristocrat and courtier. He was suspected throughout his life of being Roman Catholic, and went through periods of royal disfavour, in which his reputation suffered greatly.
29 de mar. de 2024 · Henry Howard, earl of Northampton was a Roman Catholic intriguer during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, known for his unscrupulousness and treachery. He was the second son of the poet Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, and the younger brother of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk.
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton. (1540-1614), Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Sitter associated with 5 portraits. A Roman Catholic intriguer during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, and had a reputation for treachery.
HENRY HOWARD, Earl of Northampton (1540-1614), born at Shottesham, Norfolk, on 25 Feb. 1539-40, was second son of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey; was younger brother of Thomas Howard, fourth duke of Norfolk and uncle of Philip Howard, first earl of Arundel.
23 de may. de 2018 · Howard, Henry, 1st earl of Northampton (1540–1614). Howard's father Lord Surrey was executed when he was 7. In Edward VI's reign, he was tutored by John Foxe, the protestant martyrologist, but at Mary's accession a catholic bishop took over. The indiscretions of his elder brother the 4th duke of Norfolk blighted his prospects in ...
1 de jun. de 2011 · 01 June 2011. PDF. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Issue Section: Book Reviews. By the time of his death in 1614 Henry Howard, earl of Northampton, was probably the most powerful nobleman in Jacobean politics, mocked in libels as an oleaginous but powerful flatterer, a crypto-Catholic, and an arch-manipulator of the court.
Introduction. Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, whom Francis Bacon hailed as ‘the Learnedst Counsellor in this kingdom’, was undoubtedly one of the major scholarly intellects, as well as as one of the most prolific writers, of the Elizabethan-Jacobean period.
