{{short description|16th-century English nobleman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox nobility | name = Lord Edmund Howard | image = Tournament Scene, by Jörg Breu the Elder (Getty 103R3E).jpg | caption = Tournament scene, [[Jörg Breu the Elder]] c. 1510–1515 | spouse = [[Jocasta Culpeper|Joyce Culpeper]]<br>Dorothy Troyes<br>Margaret Mundy (or Munday) | issue = Henry Howard<br>[[Charles Howard (courtier)|Sir Charles Howard]]<br>[[Sir George Howard (courtier)|Sir George Howard]]<br>[[Katherine Howard|Katherine, Queen of England]]<br>Margaret Howard<br>Mary, Lady Trafford | father = [[Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk]] | mother = [[Elizabeth Tilney]] | noble family = [[Howard family|Howard]] | birth_date = {{circa|1478}} | birth_place = | death_date = 19 March 1539 (aged 60–61) | death_place = | burial_place = |}} '''Lord Edmund Howard''' ({{circa|1478}} – 19 March 1539) was the third son of [[Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk]], and his first wife, [[Elizabeth Tilney]]. His sister, [[Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire|Elizabeth]], was the mother of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII's]] second wife, [[Anne Boleyn]], and he was the father of the king's fifth wife, [[Katherine Howard]]. His first cousin, [[Margery Wentworth]], was the mother of Henry's third wife, [[Jane Seymour]].
==Family== Edmund Howard, born about 1478, was the third son of [[Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk|Thomas Howard]], later 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and his first wife, [[Elizabeth Tilney]]. He had seven brothers and two sisters of the whole blood: [[Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk]], [[Edward Howard (admiral)|Edward Howard]], Sir John Howard, Henry Howard,{{efn|died young}} Charles Howard, Henry Howard, Richard Howard, [[Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire|Elizabeth Howard]], and Muriel Howard, who married firstly, [[John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle]], and secondly, [[Thomas Knyvett|Sir Thomas Knyvet]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Richardson II|2011|p=414}}.</ref>
By his father's second marriage to [[Agnes Tilney, Duchess of Norfolk|Agnes Tilney]], Howard had seven half-brothers and sisters: John Howard,{{efn|died young}} John Howard, [[William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham]], Charles Howard, [[Lord Thomas Howard]], Henry Howard, Richard Howard, Anne Howard, Dorothy Howard, who married [[Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby]], Katherine Howard, who married firstly [[Rhys ap Gruffydd (rebel)|Rhys ap Griffith]] and secondly [[Henry Daubeney, 1st Earl of Bridgewater]], and Elizabeth Howard, who married [[Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Richardson II|2011|p=414}}.</ref>
==Career== Edmund Howard spent his early years at court.<ref name=":0" /> He spent most of his childhood at court as a pageboy in the service of [[Henry VII of England|King Henry VII]].<ref name=":1">''Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII'' (2017) by Gareth Russell, p. 27.</ref>
In 1509 he was listed as one of the noblemen who organized the jousts for the joint coronation of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] and his first wife, [[Katherine of Aragon]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Weir|2001|p=17}}.</ref> Although his eldest brother, [[Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk]], became a dominant figure at court, and another brother, [[Edward Howard (admiral)|Edward Howard]], was a close companion of the King, Edmund appears not to have shared the King's favour and seems to have been considered ineffectual.<ref name=":0">{{Harvnb|Weir|2001|p=424}}.</ref>
Biographers have described Howard as 'a spendthrift who soon dissipated his first wife's lands in Kent and Hampshire and fled abroad to avoid his creditors, leaving his numerous children to be brought up by relatives'.<ref>{{Harvnb|Bindoff|1982|p=564}}.</ref>
Gareth Russell writes:<blockquote>Edmund Howard cannot have been thrilled at the arrival of another daughter. Girls required dowries and Edmund was already struggling financially. Katherine had the bad luck to be born to a man who peaked long before he became a father. Edmund was a toxic combination of corrupt, unstable, and pathetic, but he had not always been that. Those who knew him in his youth described Katherine’s father as ‘a courage and an hardy young lusty gentleman’. One of seven sons, but the third to reach adulthood, he had his father’s and brothers’ athletic capabilities, but lacked their acute social intelligence.<ref name=":1" /> </blockquote>Howard was Marshal of the Horse at the [[Battle of Flodden]] on 9 September 1513, and attended the King at the [[Field of the Cloth of Gold]] in 1520, where he was one of the challengers in the tournaments.<ref>{{Harvnb|Richardson II|2011|p=277}}.</ref> In 1530 or 1531, with the assistance of [[Thomas Cromwell]], Howard was made Controller of [[Calais]]. He was dismissed from the post in 1539, possibly due to ill health after many years of ineffectual service, where he achieved very little, and earned even less.<ref>{{Harvnb|Warnicke|2008}}; {{Harvnb|Bindoff|1982|p=400}}.</ref>
Howard died on 19 March 1539, a year before his daughter, [[Katherine Howard]], became Queen of England.<ref>{{Harnvb|Richardson II|2011|p=418}}.</ref> His widow, Margaret, was among the ladies appointed to serve her step-daughter when her household was formed in August 1540.<ref>{{Harvnb|Weir|2001|p=440}}.</ref> Margaret later married Henry Manock.{{efn|Weir spells the name "Manock"}} Steinman conjectured that Margaret Mundy's third husband was the Henry Manox, who had been music master to Katherine Howard in her youth, and had been involved in sexual indiscretions with her which later contributed to her downfall. Bindoff established that Margaret Mundy's third husband, Henry Manock, made his will on 18 March 1564, in which he disinherited both Margaret and his son.{{sfn|Bindoff|1982|p=564}}{{sfn|Steinman|1869|pp=56–57}} Margaret (née Mundy) was buried at [[Streatham]], [[Surrey]], on 22 January 1565.{{sfn|Richardson II|2011|p=418}}
==Marriages and issue== Howard married firstly [[Joyce Culpeper]] (c.1480 – c.1528), widow of Ralph Leigh, esquire (d. 6 November 1509) of Stockwell (in Lambeth), Surrey, and daughter of Richard Culpeper, esquire, of [[Oxen Hoath|Oxenhoath]], [[West Peckham]], [[Kent]]. By her first marriage, Joyce Culpeper had two sons and three daughters who were thus Howard's stepchildren:<ref>{{Harvnb|Richardson IV|2011|pp=108–109}}</ref>
*Sir John Leigh (d.1566), thought to have supplied the French ambassador [[Antoine de Noailles]] with information in 1553.<ref>[[David Loades]], ''Mary Tudor: A Life'' (Basil Blackwell, 1989), p. 202: Royall Tyler, ''Calendar State Papers Spain'', 11 (London, 1916), p. 333 and footnote.</ref> John Leigh married a wife named Elizabeth, and by her had a daughter, Agnes Leigh (d. before 1590), who married firstly, Sir Thomas Paston (c. 1515 – 4 September 1550), a gentleman of [[Henry VIII of England|King Henry VIII's]] [[Privy Chamber]], the fourth but third surviving son of [[Paston Letters|Sir William Paston]] (c. 1479 – 1554) and Bridget Heydon,<ref>{{Harvnb|Riordan|2004}}; {{Harvnb|Worship|1885|pp=44–5}}.</ref> and secondly, Edward Fitzgerald, (17 January 1528 – 1597), a younger brother of [[Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare]] (1525–1585).<ref>{{Harvnb|Finnegan|2004}}.</ref> *Ralph Leigh (d. before 1563), who married Margaret Ireland, the daughter of William Ireland, esquire, and by her had a son, **John Leigh, esquire, who married Margery Saunders, and a daughter, *** Frances, who married Edward Morgan. *[[Isabel Leigh]], who married firstly, [[Edward Bayntun|Sir Edward Baynton]], secondly, [[Sir James Stumpe]], and thirdly, Thomas Stafford, esquire. *Joyce Leigh, who married John Stanney, esquire. *Margaret Leigh, who married a husband surnamed Rice.
Howard and Joyce Culpeper had three sons and three daughters:<ref>{{Harvnb|Richardson II|2011|pp=417–18}}.</ref> *[[Charles Howard (courtier)|Sir Charles Howard]] *Henry Howard, Esquire *[[Sir George Howard (courtier)|Sir George Howard]] (c.1525–1575) *Margaret Howard (c.1515 – 10 October 1572), who married [[Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle|Sir Thomas Arundell]] of [[Wardour Castle]], and had issue ** [[Matthew Arundell|Sir Matthew Arundell]] ** Charles Arundell *[[Katherine Howard]] (1522–13 February 1542), who married [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] and had no issue. *Mary Howard, who married [[Edmund Trafford (died 1590)|Edmund Trafford]].
Lord Edmund Howard married secondly, Dorothy Troyes, daughter of Thomas Troyes of Hampshire, and widow of Sir William Ulvedale (son of [[Sir William Uvedale]]), about May 1530.
Lord Edmund Howard married thirdly, before 12 July 1537, Margaret Mundy (or Munday), daughter of [[John Mundy (mayor)|Sir John Mundy (or Munday)]], [[Lord Mayor of London]], and widow of Nicholas Jennings. Howard had no issue by his second and third wives.<ref>{{Harvnb|Weir|2001|pp=415, 435}}; {{Harvnb|Richardson II|2011|pp=417–18}}.</ref>
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===Bibliography=== *{{Cite book |last=Bindoff |first=S.T. |year=1982 |title=The House of Commons 1509–1558 |publisher=Secker & Warburg |location=London |volume=II }} *{{Cite ODNB |last=Finnegan |first=David |year=2004 |title=Fitzgerald, Gerald, eleventh earl of Kildare (1525–1585) |id=9557}} *{{Cite ODNB |last=Head |first=David M. |year=2008 |title=Howard, Thomas, second duke of Norfolk (1443–1524) |id=13939}} *{{Cite ODNB |last=Loades |first=David |year=2008 |title=Howard, Sir Edward (1476/7–1513) |id=13891}} *{{Cite book |last=Richardson |first=Douglas |year=2011 |title=Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families |editor-first=Kimball G. |editor-last=Everingham |location=Salt Lake City |edition=2nd |volume=II |ref={{sfnref |Richardson II |2011}} |isbn=978-1449966386 }} *{{Cite book |last=Richardson |first=Douglas |year=2011 |title=Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families |editor-first=Kimball G. |editor-last=Everingham |location=Salt Lake City |edition=2nd |volume=IV |ref={{sfnref |Richardson IV |2011}} |isbn=978-1460992708 }} *{{Cite ODNB |last=Riordan |first=Michael |year=2004 |title=Henry VIII, privy chamber of (act. 1509–1547) |id=70825}} *{{Cite book |last=Steinman |first=G. Steinman |year=1869 |title=Althorp Memoirs |publisher=Printed for Private Circulation |url=https://archive.org/details/althorpmemoirso00steigoog |access-date=7 July 2013 }} *{{Cite ODNB |last=Warnicke |first=Retha M. |year=2008 |title=Katherine (Catherine; nee Katherine Howard) (1518x24-1542) |id=4892}} *{{Cite book |last=Weir |first=Alison |year=2001 |title=Henry VIII, King and Court |publisher=Random House |isbn=9780224060226 |url=https://archive.org/details/henryviiikingcou0000weir |url-access=registration}} *{{Cite journal |last=Worship |first=Francis |year=1885 |title=Account of a MS. Genealogy of the Paston Family |journal=Norfolk Archaeology |location=Norwich |publisher=Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society |volume=IV |issue=1 |pages=1–55 |doi=10.5284/1077306 |doi-access=free}}
==External links== *[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/howard-sir-george-1519-80 Sir George Howard (c. 1519 – 1580), History of Parliament] *[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/mannock-henry-1526-64 Mannock, Henry (by 1526–64), of London; Haddenham, Cambridgeshire; and Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, History of Parliament] Retrieved 7 July 2013 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130921073628/http://www.kateemersonhistoricals.com/TudorWomenL.htm Agnes Leigh in Emerson, Kathy Lynn, A Who's Who of Tudor Women] *[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FITZGERALD1.htm Edward Fitzgerald]
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