Robert Howard

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1342

Robert married Margaret de Scales before 10 Mar 1363. Margaret (daughter of Robert de Scales and Katherine de Ufford) died after 8 May 1416; was buried in East Winch, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margaret Howard died on 25 Mar 1434; was buried in Abbey of the Black Friars, Norwich, Norfolk, England.
2. John Howard was born about 1365 in of Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England; died on 17 Nov 1436 in Jerusalem; was buried in Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England.

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• Alternate death: Aft 1388

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Admiral of the Fleet North of the Thames. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1344-45.

John married Alice de Bois before 11 Oct 1338. Alice (daughter of Robert de Bois and Christian Latimer) was born in 1306; died on 6 Sep 1372. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 1374 and 1375

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• Alternate death: Bef 28 Apr 1340

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Or Haward. Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1317-19, 1319-20, 1321-23.

John married Joan de Cornwall about 1309. Joan (daughter of Richard de Cornwall and Joan) died in 1341. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 25 Sep 1342

Robert married Christian Latimer. Christian (daughter of William le Latimer and Alice Ledet) died before 1326. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of East Winch, Norfolk, England
• Alternate death: Aft 3 May 1308

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Also called William de Hayward. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (citation details below):

There seems to be no contemporary evidence to support the later tradition that made him the son of one John Howard and his wife, Lucy Germund. [...]

Howard was twice married. His first wife, Alice, is said to have been the daughter of Robert of Ufford. His second wife, also named Alice, is said to have been the daughter of John Fitton of Wiggenhall and had previously been married to Simon Constable of Burton Constable in Yorkshire, who had died in prison in 1294 while refusing to plead on a number of criminal charges, including that of poisoning his first wife. Alice was successful in obtaining her dower from Constable's lands, although there was also a rival second wife, Katherine of Weelsby. Howard seems to have married Alice between 1297 and 1300, by which date he had been knighted. His son and heir, John, was almost certainly a child of his first marriage, and this may also have been the case with his second son, William.

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He was killed by an arrow at the siege of Berwick.

Richard married Joan before 1280. Joan died after 10 Oct 1321; was buried in Asthall, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Said by some to have been a daughter of John Fitz Alan (d. 1267) of Oswestry, Shropshire.

Robert married Amicia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 5 Dec 1304

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Crusader in 1270. Fought at Falkirk, 1298, and at Caerlaverock, July 1300, where he was a knight banneret.

William married Alice Ledet before 8 Nov 1268. Alice (daughter of Walter Ledet and Ermentrude) died before 8 Mar 1317. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Richard of England.

Count of Poitou; Earl of Cornwall; elected king of Germany ("King of the Romans") in 1256, but never wielded actual power in that role.

"Constable of Wallingford Castle, 1216; knighted 2 Feb. 1224/5 by his br., Henry III, who a few days afterwards, 13 Feb. 1224/5, granted him, as Richard the King's brother, the county of Cornwall during pleasure. This grant, which resembles that to Henry FitzCount above, can hardly be held to have conferred the Earldom; nevertheless, not long after, viz. 30 May 1227, he is officially styled Earl of Cornwall, and must be assumed to have been invested with the Earldom in or shortly before that year. He was Count of Poitou before 18 Aug. 1225. Lieut. of Guienne, 1226-27; Chief Commissioner for making a truce with France, 1230; Keeper of the Honour of Wallingford, 1230-31; of the Honour of Knaresborough, 1235; took the Cross, 1236; was on an Embassy to the Emperor Friedrich, 1237; Lord of the forest of Dartmoor 1239; Com. in Chief of the Crusaders, 1240-41, when he entered a truce with the Soldan of Babylon. Joint Plenipoteniary to France, and Ambassador to Pope Innocent IV, 1250; Privy Councillor 1253; Joint Guardian of England, 1253-54. He acquired vast estates and great wealth by farming the Mint, the Jews, &c., and doubtless in consequence thereof, was elected, at Frankfort, 13 Jan. 1256/7, by the Princes of the Empire, King of the Romans, being crowned 17 May 1257, at Aachen. In Oct. 1259 he was Ambassador to Pope Alexander IV. He was a faithful adherent of the King, his br., against the rebellious Barons, and both were taken prisoners at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264. He m., 1stly, 30 Mar. 1231, at Fawley, near Marlow, Bucks, Isabel, widow of Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, da. of William (Marshal), Earl of Pembroke, by Isabel suo jure Countess of Pembroke, da. and h. of Richard (de Clare), also Earl of Pembroke. She d. 17 Jan 1239/40, in childbed, at Berkhampstead, of jaundice, and was bur. at Beaulieu, Hants, her heart being sent to Tewkesbury Abbey. He m., 2ndly, 23 Nov. 1243, at Westm. Abbey, Sancha, 3rd da. and coh. of Raymond Berengar, Count of Provence, by Beatrice, da. of Tomaso, Count of Savoy. She, who was crowned Queen (with her husband) 1257, d. 9 Nov. 1261, and was bur. at Hailes Abbey, co. Gloucester, which her husband had in 1251, founded. He m., 3rdly, 16 June 1269, Beatrice, da. of Walram de Fauquemont, Seigneur de Montjoye, by Jutta, da. of Otto, Count of Ravensburg in Wesphalia. He d. at Berkhamstead Castle, Herts, having been bled for ague, 2 Apr. 1272, and was bur. in Hailes Abbey afsd., aged 63, his heart being sent to Rewley Abbey, Oxon, of which, also he was the founder. His widow d. s.p. on the Vigil of St. Luke, 17 Oct. 1277, and was bur. at the Friars Minors, Oxford." [Complete Peerage]

Richard married (Unknown mistress of Richard of Cornwall). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 22 Nov 1268

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"Fought in Gascony, 1253. Sheriff of York and Constable of York Castle, 1254-1260. As a knight of King Henry III he guaranteed the safe journey of the King and Queen of Scotland to Henry III in 1260. He adhered to King Henry III against the Barons. Sheriff of York and Constable of Scarborough Castle, 1266." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Complete Peerage says "He was Sheriff of Yorkshire from July 1254, being reappointed in 1258, and continuing until May 1260. He was appointed again in May 1266, and appears to have acted till Christmas 1267, though in Michaelmas 1267 his son William was his deputy."

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• Alternate death: 1256

Walter married Ermentrude. Ermentrude died after 8 Nov 1268. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Complete Peerage (VII:464) calls her "Ermentrude [? De Lisle]".

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• Alternate birth: 1167

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Nicknamed "Lackland".

"With regard to the birthdate of John, there have been disagreements as to the exact date and year, because of discrepancies in the sources. This was recently discussed in detail in Lewis (2002), where the conclusion was reached that 1166 was more likely than 1167. A statement in the early thirteenth century that John received that name because he was born about the time of the feast of St. John (27 December) would, if true, indicate that date as a plausible date of birth [Ex chronico anonymi canonici, ut videtur, Laudensis, RHF 13, 678-9]. However, that source only indicates a birth on about that date ('circa festum S. Johannis natus fuit'), not on it." [Stewart Baldwin, The Henry Project]

For at least part of his upbringing, he was raised in the remarkable household of his father Henry II's justiciar Ranulph de Glanville, along with, among others, the Walter brothers, nephews of Glanville's wife Bertha de Valognes. Theobald Walter would become, under John, chief butler of England and Ireland and the founder of enduring lordships in Munster and Leinster. Hubert Walter would become archbishop of Canterbury, Ranulph de Glanville's successor as justiciar of England, and then, in John's kingship, chancellor of England. Also raised and educated in the same household was Geoffrey fitz Peter, who would become John's justiciar.

John married Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England on 24 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Isabel (daughter of Adémar and Alix de Courtenay) died on 31 May 1246; was buried in Fontévrault Abbey, near Chinon, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 3 Jun 1246
• Alternate death: 4 Jun 1246, Fontévrault Abbey, near Chinon, Anjou, France

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Countess of Angoulême. Crowned Queen of England on 8 Oct 1200.

Wischard married Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]