Sir William Howard

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Sir William was a Norfolk barrister and was summoned to Parliament as a Justice in 1295. He was employed as counsel by the corporation of Kings-Lynn. Prospering by the law, William Howard of Wiggenhall rose to a Knight and acquired by purchase Grancourt's Manor in East Winch, near Kings-Lynn, where he had his seat in a moated house whose ruins remain to this day. He was probably dead and buried in his chapel at East Winch before November 27, 1308, the date of the patent by which Henry Scrope succeeded him as commissioner of Trailbaston. The two wives of Sir William Howard - Alice Ufford and Alice Fitton were daughters of knightly houses. Before his death his eldest son John Howard, was a knight and already advanced by his marriage with Joan of Cornwall, one of the illegitimate lines, founded by Richard Cornwall, King of the Romans.
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Howard, family prominent in English history. Its head is the duke of Norfolk and earl marshal of England; other titles held by members of the family have been the earldoms of Northampton, Arundel, Nottingham, and Carlisle. The Howards trace their ancestry to Sir William Howard or Haward of Norfolk, who lived about 1260-1308 and was made a justice of the common pleas in 1297. His descendant, John Howard, was made 1st duke of Norfolk by King Richard III in 1483. Thomas Howard, 3rd duke of Norfolk, was England's most powerful peer during the reign of Henry VIII; two of his nieces, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, were married to Henry. After Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, was beheaded (1572) for treason under Queen Elizabeth I, the Howards were deprived of the dukedom, but it was restored to them in 1660.

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William married Alice Ufford about 1300. Alice was born about 1290; died after 1306. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sir John Howard was born about 1305; died in 1331.

John married Lucy Germund about 1269. Lucy was born about 1235; died after 1272. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]