Biography of George Howard 1525-1580

Before 1492 Ralph Leigh (age 12) and [his mother] Joyce Culpepper (age 11) were married.

After 6th November 1509 [his father] Edmund Howard (age 31) and [his mother] Joyce Culpepper (age 29) were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk (age 66) and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey.

Around 1525 George Howard was born to Edmund Howard (age 47) and Joyce Culpepper (age 45).

Around 1528 [his mother] Joyce Culpepper (age 48) died.

After 1528 [his father] Edmund Howard (age 50) and Dorothy Troyes were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey.

Before 12th July 1537 [his father] Edmund Howard (age 59) and [his step-mother] Margaret Mundy (age 27) were married. The difference in their ages was 32 years. He the son of [his grandfather] Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey.

On 19th March 1539 [his father] Edmund Howard (age 61) died.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 25th March 1555. The xxv day of Marche, the wyche was owre lade [day,] ther was as gret justes as youe have sene at the tylt at Vestmynster; the chalyngers was a Spaneard and ser Gorge Haward (age 30); and all ther men, and ther horsses trymmyd in whyt, and then cam the Kyng (age 27) and a gret mene [menée, ie retinue] all in bluw, and trymmyd with yelow, and ther elmets with gret tuyffes [tufts ie plumes.] of blue and yelow fether, and all ther veffelers [whifflers ie forerunners] and ther fotemen, and ther armorers, and a compene lyke Turkes red in cremesun saten gownes and capes, and with fachyons [falchions], and gret targets; and sum in gren, and mony of dyvers colers; and ther was broken ij hondred stayffes and a-boyff.

In 1575 George Howard (age 50) was appointed Captain Boulogne.

In 1580 George Howard (age 55) died.

Tudor Tracts Chapter 4. [10 Sep 1547]. But if I should (as cause, I confess, there was enough) make here any stay in his commendation therefore, or of the forward courage of Sir George Haward, who bear the King's Majesty's Standard in the Battle; or of the circumspect diligence of Sir William Pickering and Sir Richard Wingfield, Sergeants of the Band to the Foreward; or of the prompt forwardness of Sir Charles Brandon, another captain there; or of the painful industry of Sir James Wilford, Provost Marshal, who placed himself with the foremost of this Foreward; or of the good order in march of Sir Hugh Willoughby and William Dennis Esquire, both captains; or of the present heart of John Challoner, a captain also in the battle; or of the honest respect of Edward Chamberlain, Gentleman Harbinger [Quartermaster] of the Army, who willingly as then, came in order with the same Foreward; or of right many others in both these Battles (for I was not nigh the Rereward) whose behaviour and worthiness were, at that time, notable in mine eye (although I neither knew then all of them I saw; nor could since remember of them I knew) I might well be in doubt it should be too much an intrication to the matter, too great a tediousness to the reader. And therefore to say on.