William Howard (Antiquarian)

Corby Castle on the River Eden, 2003

Lord William Howard (born December 19, 1563 in Audley End , Essex , † October 1640 in Greystoke ) was an English nobleman and antiquarian , who is also known as Belted Will or Bauld Will .

Life

He was the third son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk († 1572) and his second wife Margaret, a daughter of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden . On October 28, 1577 he married his stepsister Elizabeth, a daughter of Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre . He graduated from the University of Cambridge .

Suspected of treason with his half-brother Philip, Earl of Arundel (the husband of his sister-in-law Anne Dacre), he was captured in 1583, 1585 and 1589. He became a Catholic in 1584 and was expropriated with his brother of his country estate, which he was able to buy back in 1601 for a payment of £ 10,000.

He then lived with his children and grandchildren at Naworth Castle in Cumberland , restored the castle, looked after the estate and ensured law and order in the area. In 1603, at the coronation of James I , he was rehabilitated. In 1611 he bought Corby Castle and added a two-story L-shaped building to the Peel Tower there. In 1618 he became a Commissioner for the Border and took care of law and order.

Lord William was a trained and successful archaeologist who was highly praised by William Camden . Sir Walter Scott mentioned him as Belted Will in the Lay of the Last Minstrel . He had a valuable book collection, the printed works of which are still largely accessible in Naworth, while the manuscripts have been distributed to the College of Arms and other institutions. He corresponded with James Ussher and was friends with Henry Spelman and Robert Bruce Cotton , whose eldest son married his daughter. In 1592 he published an edition of Florence of Worcesters Chronicon ex Chronicis , which he dedicated to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley , and made a family tree of his family.

Web links

Mandell Creighton: Howard, William (1563-1640). In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 28, Smith, Elder & Co., London 1891, pp. 79-81 (English, Wikisource ).

Individual evidence

^ Hugh Chisholm (Ed.): Encyclopædia Britannica , 11th edition. Cambridge University Press , 1911.
↑ Howard, Lord William . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 1: From the earliest times to 1751 , volume 2 : Dabbs-Juxton . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1922, pp. 417 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Charlie Emett: Discovering The Eden Valley. ISBN 0-7509-4184-7 , p. 109.

personal data
SURNAME	Howard, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Howard, Lord William; Belted Will; Bauld Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English nobleman and antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 19, 1563
PLACE OF BIRTH	Audley End , Essex
DATE OF DEATH	October 1640
Place of death	Greystoke

[1] Hugh Chisholm (Ed.): Encyclopædia Britannica , 11th edition. Cambridge University Press , 1911.

[2] Howard, Lord William . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 1: From the earliest times to 1751 , volume 2 : Dabbs-Juxton . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1922, pp. 417 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[3] Charlie Emett: Discovering The Eden Valley. ISBN 0-7509-4184-7 , p. 109.