Agnes (Tilney) Howard (1477 - bef. 1545)

Born 1477 in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England

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Died before 9 Nov 1545 before age 68 in Thetford Abbey, Norfolk, England

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Biography

Agnes (Tilney) Howard is Notable.

Agnes Howard (née Tilney) (c. 1477 – May 1545) was the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. Two of King Henry VIII's Queens were her step-granddaughters, Anne Boleyn, and Katherine Howard. After her mother's death, Katherine Howard was in the Dowager Duchess's care during her youth, and as a result of the Duchess's lax guardianship, committed sexual indiscretions while in the Duchess's household which led to her execution as Queen. Agnes' brother, Sir Philip Tilney of Shelley (d.1533), was the paternal grandfather of Edmund Tilney (1535/6–1610), Master of the Revels to Queen Elizabeth and King James. Edmund Tilney's mother, Malyn, was implicated in the scandal surrounding Queen Katherine's downfall.

Research note

Agnes died in 1545 and was buried at Thetford Abbey on the 31st of May. On 13 October her remains were removed to Lambeth Church in Surrrey as she had directed in her will.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Howard (née Tilney), Agnes, duchess of Norfolk (b. in or before 1477, d. 1545) Catharine Davies

• "Royal Ancestry" 2013 by Douglas Richardson Vol. III. p. 337

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Howard,_Duchess_of_Norfolk

• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=12159473&pid=-307186004

• Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2010), 3 vols, Volume 2, page 274, HOWARD 12.

• Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd edn (2011), 4 vols, Volume 2, page 414, HOWARD 11. (Agnes's father gets an Esq in this version.)

• Marlyn Lewis.

• Visitation of Norfolk Page 163: Howard