Everything about Henry Howard Earl Of Surrey totally explained
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey KG (
1517 –
19 January 1547) was an
English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English
Renaissance poetry.
Life
He was born in Hunsdon,
Hertfordshire, England, the eldest son of
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and his second wife, Lady Elizabeth Stafford (daughter of
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham), so he was descended from kings on both sides of his family tree. He was reared at
Windsor with
Henry VIII's illegitimate son
Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond, and they became close friends and, later, brothers-in-law. He became
Earl of Surrey in
1524 when his grandfather died and his father became
Duke of Norfolk.
In
1532 he accompanied his first cousin
Anne Boleyn, the King, and the Duke of Richmond to
France, staying there for more than a year as a member of the entourage of
Francis I of France. In
1536 his first son,
Thomas (later 4th Duke of Norfolk), was born,
Anne Boleyn was executed on charges of treason, and
Henry Fitzroy died at the age of 17 and was buried at one of the Howard homes,
Thetford Abbey. That was also the year Henry — who took after his father and grandfather in military prowess — served with his father against the
Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion protesting the
dissolution of the monasteries.
Death and burial
He was imprisoned with his father by Henry VIII, who, consumed by his own paranoia, was convinced that Henry Howard had planned to usurp the crown from his son
Edward. He was executed for
treason on
19 January 1547 sentenced on 13 January 1547 (his father was saved from execution only by its being set for the day after Henry happened to die) his son
Thomas became heir to the Dukedom of Norfolk instead, inheriting it on the 3rd Duke's death in
1554.
He is buried in a spectacular painted alabaster tomb at
St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham.
Marriage and issue
He married Lady
Frances de Vere, the daughter of
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford and
Elizabeth Trussell, Countess of Oxford. They had five children:
Literary legacy
He and his friend
Sir Thomas Wyatt were the first English poets to write in the
sonnet form that
Shakespeare later used, and Henry was the first English poet to publish
blank verse in his translation of the second and fourth books of
Virgil's
Aeneid. Together, Wyatt and Surrey are known as "Fathers of the English Sonnet."
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