William Howard

Bef 1256 - Bef 1308  (< 52 years)

• Name	William Howard
  Birth	Bef 1256	of Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of East Winch, Norfolk, England   [1]
  Alternate death	Aft 3 May 1308  [2]
  Death	Bef 24 Aug 1308  [3]
  Person ID	I15828	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2021

  
  

  Children	+ 1. John Howard,   b. of Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England d. Bef 23 Jul 1331 + 2. William Howard
  Family ID	F9891	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.