William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham

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William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham KG (around 1510 - January 12, 1573 in Hampton Court Palace ) was an English Grand Admiral and nobleman .

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William Howard was born around 1510 to Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk , and his second wife Agnes Tilney . He attended Trinity Hall College at the University of Cambridge .

As the younger son of the country's first aristocratic family, Howard could not inherit any of the titles or offices from his father ( Duke of Norfolk , Earl of Arundel , Earl of Surrey etc. and Earl Marshal of England), but of course there was still a way up State offices open at the court of the Tudors . So, because he was interested in the Navy, he finally became Lord High Admiral in 1554 with the rank of Grand Admiral. Howard immediately took part in the crackdown on the Wyatt conspiracy . Queen Maria I therefore raised him on March 11, 1554, in recognition of his services, probably also because of his Catholic faith, because she was a Catholic herself and wanted to re-Catholicize the country, to the peer of the empire with the title of Baron Howard of Effingham and made him in the same year knight of the Order of the Garter .

Howard continued to hold important offices under the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I. So he held the influential office of Lord Chamberlain of the Household for a period of 15 years (1557–1572) . In 1572/3 he was finally keeper of the lord seal .

William Howard of Effingham was married twice. He had a daughter with his first wife, who died early, and four sons and five daughters with his second wife, including his heir to the title, Charles . He was also Lord High Admiral and was made Earl of Nottingham in 1597 . Howard is also said to have had an illegitimate daughter.

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility, Princely Houses Volume VII , p. 500. 538

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 133
predecessor Office successor
New title created Baron Howard of Effingham
1554-1573 		Charles Howard
Edward Clinton Lord High Admiral
1554–1558 		Edward Clinton
Edward Hastings Lord Chamberlain of the Household
1558-1572 		Thomas Radclyffe
William Cecil Lord seal keeper
1572–1573 		Thomas Smith
personal data
SURNAME Howard, William, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howard, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English Grand Admiral
DATE OF BIRTH around 1510
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1573
Place of death Hampton Court Palace