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Charles Howard | |
|---|---|
| Known for | Lover of Margaret Douglas; brother of Katherine Howard |
| Partner | Margaret Douglas |
| Parent(s) | Lord Edmund Howard Joyce Culpeper |
| Relatives | Katherine Howard (sister) Sir George Howard (brother) Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (paternal uncle) |
| Family | Howard |
Charles Howard was a gentleman at the court of Henry VIII of England.
Charles Howard was the eldest son of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, and the elder brother of Sir George Howard. His maternal grandmother, Isabel Worsley mentions him first of her Howard grandchildren.[1] As a scion of the mighty Howard family, his uncle, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was able to find him a position at court. Charles' fortunes improved in 1540, when his sister Katherine Howard became King Henry VIII's fifth wife.[2]
Gareth Russell writes:
Charles Howard received a few properties from the king, £100 a year, a licence to import 1,000 tons of Gascon wine and French timber, and a place as a gentleman of the Privy Chamber. But in comparison to the treasures that were heaped upon them in popular legend, the Howards were left wanting.[3]
Charles went on to create a mesalliance with the King's niece, Margaret Douglas, the daughter of Henry's sister, Margaret Tudor, Queen Dowager of Scotland.[2] Gareth Russell writes:
Charles Howard seems to have had the Howard charisma seeping out of his fingertips, and if he was not quite the stuff of the council chamber, he at least fitted in perfectly to the merrymaking routine that dominated the court in the latter half of 1540.[4]
One seventeenth-century account states that he was killed fighting in France three years after his rustication in 1541.[5]
- ^ Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII (2017) by Gareth Russell, p. 14.
- ^ a b "Margaret DOUGLAS (C. Lennox)".
- ^ Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII (2017) by Gareth Russell, p. 144.
- ^ Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII (2017) by Gareth Russell, p. 145.
- ^ Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII (2017) by Gareth Russell