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Cornelius Howard, Jr. (FFDNA-JS)

Male 1655 - 1717  (62 years)


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  1. 1.  Cornelius Howard, Jr. (FFDNA-JS) was born in 1655 in Virginia (son of Capt Cornelius Howard, Sr. and Elizabeth Gorsuch); died on 22 Feb 1717 in St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland.

    Notes:

    Cornelius Howard shown as a match in Family Finder.

    Melissa P Phelps matched to John
    She shows wife as Mary Katherine Hammond; thru son Cornelius Joshua Howard and wife Elizabeth Gassaway dau of Thomas Gassaway.

    Sharon Lynn Flora matched to me and John as 3-5 cousin.
    She shows wife as Mary Roper, thru son John Howard & Elizabeth Gassaway, dau of Thomas Gassaway & Susana Hanslip.

    Melissa and Sharon only show small match on chrom 2.

    Melissa names:
    Blackburn / Bourne / Brison / Buchanan / Calloway / Carrico (Grayson County, Virginia) / Carter / Clarkson / Colley / Cooper / Freeman / Gardner / Gassaway / Hart / Hash / Haynie / Howard / Jan / Linvill / Mar / Meyer / Miller / Moore / Morgan / Moyer / Parks / Peirce / Pierce (Virginia) / Pool / Poole / Pyke / Rice / Roberts / Rozer / Semmes / Sewall / Simms / Sizemore (North Carolina/Virginia) / Smith / Spears / Stein / Stevens / TOOKER / Wilkerson / Wyatt (North Carolina/Virginia)

    Cornelius married Mary Katherine Hammond (or Roper) about 1683 in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland. Mary was born in 1670 in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland; died on 24 Dec 1714 in St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Cornelius Joshua Howard was born in 1698 in St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland; died in 1777 in Baltimore, Maryland.
    2. John Howard was born about 1698 in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland; died on 18 Mar 1805 in Baltimore Co, Maryland.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Capt Cornelius Howard, Sr. was born in 1636 in Norfolk Co, Virginia (son of Matthew "of the Severn" Howard, Sr. and Anne Evans Hall); died on 15 Oct 1680 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Birth: 1635, Great Britain

    Notes:

    Capt. Howard's will mentioned wife, Elizabeth and five children: Joseph, Cornelius, Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth.
    Capt. Cornelius Howard, Gent., born in Great Britain 1635, died Maryland 1680. Cornelius came to the Severn River area from Norfolk, Virginia, with the Puritan Exodus of 1650-58. He was commissioned Ensign under Capt. Benson, Burgess 1671-1676, Justice of the Peace 1679.

    http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dasisson/va1st.htm
    Captain John SISSON (2) appears as an officer in the royal colonial army and the comrade of wealthy tobacco planters and large landholders of the Tidewater region. Capt. Cornelius Howard, a brother army officer and himself a wealthy planter on the Severn River, . . . in his will affectionately names "Capt John SISSON" as "my brother" (i.e., in friendship) and appointed him executor of his will . . . dated in 1663 (Ref: "Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland" J.D. Warfield, ed., [Baltimore: Kohr & Pollock, 1905]).

    John Sison married, probably in Virginia, Frances Gorsuch, daughter of Rev John Gorsuch. In 1659, John and his wife Frances immigrated to Maryland. In 1660 his daughter Joane was transported to Maryland. John Sison's will, probated 16 Mary 1663 in Anne Arundel County, names wife Frances, eldest daughter Jean Sison, daughter Eliza Sison, brother Benjamin Sison, brother Cornelius Howard (i.e., brother-in-law) . . . John's wife's Frances Gorsuch's sister Elizabeth Gorsuch Howard, the wife of Cornelius Howard. The land of Jane and Elizabeth SISSON is included in the Maryland Rent Rolls of Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties in 1666 and 1667.]

    Cornelius married Elizabeth Gorsuch about 1657. Elizabeth was born about 1637; died after 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Elizabeth Gorsuch was born about 1637; died after 1680.
    Children:
    1. Joseph Howard was born about 1658 in Virginia; died after 1680.
    2. 1. Cornelius Howard, Jr. (FFDNA-JS) was born in 1655 in Virginia; died on 22 Feb 1717 in St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland.
    3. Sarah Howard was born about 1662 in Virginia; died after 1680.
    4. Mary Howard was born about 1664 in Virginia; died after 1680.
    5. Elizabeth Howard was born about 1666 in Virginia; died after 1680.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Matthew "of the Severn" Howard, Sr. was born in 1609 in Wardour, Wiltshire, England; was christened on 19 Jun 1609 in St. Andrew's, Holborn, Middlesex, England (son of 1st Baron, Count Thomas Arundell-Howard and Anne Philipson, (3rd dau)); died on 4 Sep 1659 in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland; was buried in Howard Homestead Cem, Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Emigration: Bef 1631, England
    • Immigration: Bef 1631, Norfolk Co, Virginia
    • Residence: 8 Feb 1637/38, New Norfolk Co, Virginia
    • Residence: 1649, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland

    Notes:

    The English background of Mathew Howard of the Severn in Maryland has been the subject of much interest and not a little controversy as to the origin. That he was of the noble family of England cannot be denied, for, according to the ancient rules of heraldry, any family which has been granted a coat-of-arms is deemed to be ennobled.

    Many visible and invisible indicators point to the belief that he was not of too remote relationship to the Howards of the Peerage, but certainly no title or even a knighthood was possessed by him. But the use of the ancient Howard arms on documents in Maryland and the fact that all of his sons were literate place his family in the social picture above many of the British planters who settled in the Colonies.

    The date of his settlement in America and the political times at home all have some bearing on his life and the motive for his leaving England. His politics were of the Puritan variety. They may have alienated him from the conservative opinions of other members of the family?though many peers espoused the liberality and revolutionary actions of Cromwell and his adherents. His associations in Virginia were definitely with the liberal non-Conformists which was the reason of his leaving that colony and coming to Maryland at the invitation of Lord Baltimore. He was among the first contingency to arrive and settled on the north shore of the Severn opposite the present town of Annapolis around present Greenbury Point more or less under the ancient rights of squatters until patents were granted after certain formalities.

    The first record of Mathew Howard being in the Colony of Virginia was on February 8, 1637/8, when he was seated on the western branch of the Elizabeth River in the Upper County of New Norfolk. His emigration therefore ante-dates that year, but it is not believed to have been too many years.

    Throwing aside any political entanglement of Mathew Howard in England, his desire to settle in the Colonies may have been actuated by sheer adventure and the opportunities which a new world offered to younger sons without estates. There is no record of his bringing in children, but only his wife, Anne, and two man-servants. Consequently, it can be assumed that he had recently married and set out for Virginia shortly thereafter.

    He seemed to have left all connections behind him, and when he settled in Maryland neither he nor his sons commemorated any of his ancestral estates by the naming of their plantations to offer a clue to their life in England.

    As mentioned previously, he was seated on the western branch of the Elizabeth River in Upper Norfolk which is present Nansemond County, where a hot-bed of non-Conformists had developed through mutual interests. It was not until May 27, 1638, that he applied for his head-rights in financing his own passage and that of Anne his wife.

    He had a family by July 6, 1640, as the following human interest item will prove: "Simon Peeter, aged 26, stated that Edy Hanking said that Mathew Howard's wife went walking with Edward Lloide and left the children crying and her husband had to leave work and quiet the children? Eady Hanking shall acknowledge the accusations and as Howard's wife openly forgiveness both at the house of Mr. Wm Julian on Friday next and also at the Parish Church the Sunday following and defray the charges of the Court."

    By 1648 Mathew Howard was the father of six children. Richard Hall, of Lower Norfolk County, died testate in 1648 without issue and named Mathew Howard the Elder as Executor of his estate and bequeathed legacies to the Howard children. He furthermore left "Old Mathew" one yearling stear calf and "my best pair of breeches."

    Children of Mathew and Anne Howard
    1. Anne Howard Greeniffe, born ca 1637.
    2. Elizabeth Howard Ridgely, born ca 1639.
    3. Mathew Howard, Jr., born ca 1640.
    4. Capt. Cornelius Howard, Sr., born ca 1643.
    5. John Howard, Sr., born before 1645.
    6. Samuel Howard, born before 1645.
    7. Mary Howard Hammond, born ca 1645.
    8. Philip Howard, born after 1648.

    On July 3, 1650, Robert Clark, Surveyor General of the Province, stated that he had "laid out for Mathew Howard of the Severn in the County of Ann Arundell planter a parcel of land lying on the south side of the River Severn near a Creek called Marshes Creek... containing and now laid out in the whole for Six Hundred and fifty acres more or less." The 650 acres were undoubtedly due for his own personal adventure into the Province (100 acres) and the remainder for the transportation at his own expense eleven persons whose names were not recorded. His younger children were certainly under age at that time, so it can be assumed that among the eleven were several of his children.

    He perhaps returned to Virginia or his son and namesake remained behind, for on November 15, 1650, the Court of Lower Norfolk ordered that 100 lbs of tobacco be paid to Mathew Howard for the killing of a wolf. It is also evident that he was a resident of Virginia as late as 1652. Lt. Coll. Cornelius Loyd in that year was appointed the Collector of the Western Branch of the Elizabeth River for 97 tithable persons with a quota of 31,330 lbs. tobacco. His remuneration was to be 4, 150 lbs. tobacco and Mathew Howard was to receive 100 lbs. tobacco. In that same year Robert Woody was ordered to pay Mathew Howard 500 lbs. tobacco.

    No record can be found of any last will and testament or even an inventory or administration of his estate. He was deceased by 1659, when Edward Loyd who was the guardian of his youngest son, Philip, had "Howardstone" on the Severn surveyed for Philip Howard, stating that he was an orphan of Mathew Howard. It was not until 1660 or a little later that his sons appeared in the service and annals of the Province.

    The records of Oxford and Cambridge do not reveal that any of the sons of Mathew Howard were sent back to England for their education, but all were literate and manifested a high degree of intellect. It is therefore apparent that they were tutored in Virginia and that the younger ones were later schooled after settlement in Maryland. The family left its mark on Maryland and the scions intermarried with the county gentry of the Province. They were large land and slave owners which were symbols of wealth and position in those days. While the emigrant was undoubtedly of Puritan learnings, the sons conformed to the Established Church and even became members of the local vestries.

    Anne Arundel Gentry: A Genealogical History of Some Early Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland by Harry Wright Newman

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    Matthew Howard, b. 1609.
    Matthew Howard emigrant son of Sir Thomas Howard-Arundel and Ann Philipson his wife. He married Ann about 1630 and embarked within a short time for Virginia with two white servants. Most likely political differences or adventure sent him and his bride to the New World. It must be remembered that he was not the eldest son and therefore the title would not descend to him on the death of his father. At that time it was not uncommon for the second and younger sons of baronial houses to immigrate to Virginia with a retinue of servants and continue a life of culture, ease and wealth which could be found unequalled in the New World.
    The vessel in which Matthew Howard sailed from his native land brought him with his bride to the settlements at the mouth of the James and Elizabeth Rivers and there he joined the group of settlers in what was then known as Lower Norfolk County. He resided for nearly twenty years in that locale and it is believed that is where his eight children were born.
    In 1638 Matthew was granted by Charles I 150 acres of land, his rights by his own immigration and the transportation of his wife, Anne, and two servants. Inasmuch as he demanded no land for transportation of his children, it is conclusive proof that all eight children were born in the new world.
    He was among the first contingency to arrive and settled on the north shore of the Severn opposite the present town of Annapolis around present Greensbury Point. On July 3, 1650, Robert Clark, Surveyor General of the Province, stated that he had "laid out for Mathew Howard of the Severn in the County of Anne Arundell planter a parcell of land lying on the south side of the River Severn near a Creek called Marshes Creek... containing and now laid out in the wholf for 650 acres more or less."
    What caused Matthew and his family to leave the Tidewater Country of Virginia and seek a home in Maryland is not known-only supposition. When he landed in Virginia, Maryland the proprietory province of the Calverts had not been established. It is not unlikely that he wished to reside in the Province of his brother-in-law, Cecil Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore. Again the fact that the county of Anne Arundel was named after his sister perhaps lured him. The tales of beauty and richness of Maryland to the north no doubt reached his ears and in spirit of adventure he sought a new home in the province of his kinsmen. And the land which he surveyed for him and his sons in the vicinity of Round Bay of the Severn is to this day unequalled in beauty and fertility of all the lands bordering the many rivers which empty into the Chesapeake Bay.

    Matthew Howard died intestate some time before 1659, and left behind five sons to carry on the name and all five except one, who became a Quaker, gave themselves to public service and distinguished themselves in the military history of Maryland.

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    opposing viewpoint:
    The ancestry of Matthew HOWARD is unknown. One theory of his ancestry, the HOWARD-ARUNDELL theory has been found to have no validity.

    Another theory, the HOWARD-DOUGLAS theory, is that Matthew was a great grandson of Thomas HOWARD and Margaret DOUGLAS (niece of King Henry VIII). This theory is also highly improbable. The foundation of Moss' theory rests on a false premise, that does not show a union between the HOWARD and DOUGLAS families as he implied.

    Matthew HOWARD's son John HOWARD on his 1695 will affixed a wax seal, which corresponds with the undifferenced arms of the HOWARD family of England, from which descended the HOWARD family of the Duke of Norfolk. The arms were on an escutheon, a bend between six cross crosslets fitchee.

    After the Battle of Flodden in 1513, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, was granted an augmentation that appeared on the bend as a small shield with the demi-lion of the arms of the King of Scotland cut in half with an arrow through its mouth. The seal used by John HOWARD did not contain the augmentation.

    Many writers have stated that the use of the arms by John HOWARD showed that the family was not too distantly related to the Norfolk line. They also believed that the MD Howards would not have used the arms, if they did not have the "legal" right.

    Illegal use of arms was a problem, both in England and America. The purpose of the Herald's Visitations in England in the 16th and 17th centuries were to determine those who did have right to display arms. Little, if any, effort was made by colonial governments to enforce laws regarding Heraldry. Contemporary with when John HOWARD wrote his will, a Mr. Gore, a carriage painter in Boston created arms for socialites there.27

    Undifferenced usage of arms passed at death to a man's eldest son, other sons being allowed to use a differenced version of the arms. In that John HOWARD used the undifferenced, pre-1513 arms of the Ducal HOWARDs his usage was illegal according to the laws of Heraldry. Whether the HOWARD family of MD was entitled to use a differenced version of the Ducal arms is unknown.

    Matthew HOWARD and wife Anne had children:
    1. Elizabeth HOWARD1 b. ca. 1639; m. Henry RIDGELY;5 d. 16696-16727 Anne Arundel Co., MD
    2. Matthew HOWARD1 b. ca. 1641;2 m. Sarah DORSEY;8,28 d. between 3 Oct. 1691 and 12 Jan. 1692 Anne Arundel Co., MD3
    3. Cornelius HOWARD1 b. ca. 1643;2 m. Elizabeth;9 d. between 15 April and 15 Oct. 1680 Anne Arundel Co., MD9
    4. John HOWARD1 b. ca. 1645;2 m.1. Susanna (NORWOOD) widow of Charles STEVENS;10 m.2. Eleanor,12 widow of John MACCUBIN;11 d. between 30 Dec. 1695 and 13 May 1696 Anne Arundel Co., MD
    5. Samuel HOWARD1 b. ca. 1647;2 m. Catherine14 WARNER;13 d. between 28 Feb. 1702 and 9 Nov. 1703 Anne Arundel Co. MD14
    6. Philip HOWARD3 b. ca. 1649;2 m. Ruth BALDWIN;15 d. between 25 July 1701 and 24 Feb. 1701 [1702] Anne Arundel Co., MD
    7. Ann HOWARD1 b. ca. 1651;2 m. James GRENEFFE;4 living 1690

    http://home.netcom.com/~fzsaund/howard.html


    Residence:
    The first record of Mathew Howard being in the Colony of Virginia was on February 8, 1637/8, when he was seated on the western branch of the Elizabeth River in the Upper County of New Norfolk.

    Matthew married Anne Evans Hall before 1636 in of, Wiltshire, England. Anne was born in 1610 in England; died before 1659 in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Anne Evans Hall was born in 1610 in England; died before 1659 in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland.

    Notes:

    Richard Hall, of Lower Norfolk County, died testate in 1648 without issue and named Mathew Howard the Elder as the executor of his estate and bequeathed legacies to the Howard children. To Anne Howard he left a cow calf and a barrow shote; to Elizabeth Howard two cows and all their increase and a sow; to Mathew Howard the Younger a sow shote; to Cornelius Howard a sow and "my hat"; to John Howard "my wigg and new clothes"; and to Samuel howard "my money and tobacco." He futhermore left "Old Mathew" one yearling stear calf and "my best pair of breeches."
    On Nov 15, 1648 Mathew Howard appeared at court and under oath declared that the last will and testament of Richard Hall as offered for probation was true and correct, thereupon administration was granted.
    ("Anne Arundel Gentry" by Harry Wright Newman, Vol 2, p 228)
    Guess: Richard Hall was related to Anne, however not her father as he died "without issue." Perhaps an uncle, brother?

    Children:
    1. Henry Howard was born about 1632; died before 8 Mar 1684.
    2. Samuel Howard was born about 1632 in Norfolk Co, Virginia; died in bett 28 Feb 1702 and 9 Nov 1703 in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland.
    3. John Howard, Sr. was born about 1634 in Lower Norfolk Co, Virginia; died between 30 Dec 1695 and 13 May 1696 in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland; was buried in Howard Family Burial Ground, Round Bay, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland.
    4. 2. Capt Cornelius Howard, Sr. was born in 1636 in Norfolk Co, Virginia; died on 15 Oct 1680 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland.
    5. Mathew Howard, Jr was born about 1640 in Norfolk Co, Maryland; died between 3 Oct 1691 and 12 Jan 1692 in Severn, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland.
    6. Anne Howard was born about 1642; died after 1664.
    7. Elizabeth Howard was born about 1639 in Norfolk Co, Virginia; died between 1669 and 1672 in Anne Arundel Co, Virginia.
    8. Sarah Howard was born about 1645 in of, Virginia; died before 1 May 1717 in of, Virginia.
    9. Philip Howard was born after 1648; died between 25 Jul 1701 and 24 Feb 1702 in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland.
    10. Mary Howard was born after 1655; died after 1688 in of, Somerset Co, Maryland.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  1st Baron, Count Thomas Arundell-Howard was born about 1560 in Wardour Castle, Wiltshire, England (son of Matthew Arundell-Howard and Margaret Willoughby); died on 7 Nov 1639 in Wardour Castle, Wiltshire, England.

    Notes:

    Thomas Arundell of Wardour was born into an ancient Anglo-Norman family. He spent his early life on the Continent, especially in Germany. At an early age, with the consent of Queen Elizabeth and with her letters of recommendation to the Emperor, he went as a volunteer in the Imperial Army to fight the Turks. For his conspicuous gallantry in those wars, he earned the soubriquet "The Valiant." In 1595 at the battle of Gran in Hungary he captured the standard of the Turk's with his own hands. The Emperor, Rudolph II, thereupon created him a COUNT OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, a unique and remarkable Imperial Decree 14th of Dec 1595, made the honour "descendible to all and each of the grantee's children, heirs, posterity, and descendants of either sex, born or to be born, forever."
    Under the terms of this unique document anyone legally descended from Thomas Arundell is a Count or Countess of the Holy Roman Empire.
    The Emporor's edict commended Count Arundell to Queen Elizabeth who reacted furiously to the matter and refused to recognise the title remarking, "I would not have my sheep branded with another man's mark; I would not have them follow the whe of a strange shepherd." On his return to England Count Arundell was thrown into the Fleet prison for two months and banished from court. By 1598 however, Arundell was a knight, and in the following reign James I created him, 4th May 1605, Baron Arundell of Wardour. (Arundells of Wardour)

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    Count Thomas, spent his early life on the Continent, especially in Germany and served in the Imperial Hungarian Army against the Turks. He was created by Rodolph II, Emporer of Germany, a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. The patent of creation, dated Prague, December 14, 1595, conferred the honor upon "you Thomas and all and every one of your children, heirs and legitimate descendants of both sexes already born or that ever hereafter shall be". Thus the warrant conferred the title not only on the eldest son but on every son and daughter and their descendants.
    After winning honors and distinction on the Continent, Thomas Arundel-Howard, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, returned to England, gained favor with the Tudors and was elevated to the peerage in 1605 as 1st. Baron Arundel of Wardour.
    Thomas married in 1583 Maria, daughter of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and had three children. Maria died in 1607. Lord Thomas married secondly Ann, the third daughter of Miles Philipson of Crook, Westmorland, and had six children, one of which was a son Matthew.
    (Vol. 2 #0658)
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    this account said 9 children, including a Thomas by both wives.

    Arundell married secondly, Anne Philipson, third daughter of Miles Philipson of Crook, Westmorland, by whom he had three sons, Matthew, Thomas and Frederick, and six daughters: Katherine (wife of Ralph Eure), Mary (wife of Sir John Somerset), Anne, Frances (wife of John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury), Margaret (wife of John Fortescue), and Clare (wife of Humphrey Weld).[27]

    http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Thomas-Arundel-1st-Baron-of-Wardour/6000000003615785534

    full bio from the same site:
    Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour (ca. 1560 ? 7 November 1639) was the eldest son of Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (ca. 1532/34?24 December 1598), and Margaret Willoughby, the daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire. He distinguished himself in battle against the Ottoman Turks in the service of the Emperor Rudolf II, and was created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. His assumption of the title displeased Queen Elizabeth, who refused to recognize it, and imprisoned him in the Fleet. In 1605 Arundell was created 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour. In the same year he was briefly suspected of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot.

    Life

    Sir Thomas Arundell (ca. 1560 ? 7 November 1639) was the eldest son of Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (ca. 1532/34?24 December 1598), a member of the ancient family of Arundell of Cornwall, and Margaret Willoughby, the daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire. His father inherited extensive former monastic lands, and served in a number of administrative capacities, including high sheriff, custos rotulorum, and Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset. In her youth his mother served for several years in the household of Princess Elizabeth at Hatfield.[1] Arundell's paternal grandparents were Sir Thomas Arundell (executed on 26 February 1552) and Margaret Howard (ca. 1515-10 October 1571), sister of Queen Catherine Howard.[2]

    In 1580 Arundell was imprisoned for his fervent Roman Catholicism.[3] By licence dated 18 June 1585 he married Mary (c.1567?1607), the daughter of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and Mary, the daughter of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague.[4] Arundell's wife was the sister of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. Arundell was fond of Southampton as a youth, writing to Lord Burghley when Southampton was 15 that 'Your Lordship doth love him', and that 'My [own] love and care of this young Earl enticeth me'.[5]

    Although a Roman Catholic throughout his life, Arundell demonstrated his loyalty to the Crown in 1588 by subscribing £100 towards the defeat of the Spanish Armada.[6]

    According to Akrigg, Arundell was 'gifted and scholarly', but by the time he had reached his 30s had failed to find any outlet for his talents and had 'sunk into a melancholic existence', living a 'studious solitary life' at the Wriothesley estates in Hampshire or in the family apartments at Southampton House in London. In 1595 Arundell's father agreed to provide him with horses and £1100 to leave England and serve in the Imperial forces against the Turks.[7] The Queen allegedly recommended him to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.[8] On 7 September 1595 Arundell stormed the breach at Gran, replacing the Turkish standard with the Imperial eagle.[9] In recognition of his service, Arundell was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire on 14 December 1595, and became known as 'the Valiant'.[10]

    Against his father's wishes Arundell took his leave of the Imperial court in mid-December and returned to England. His ship was caught in a storm and wrecked near Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast. He lost all his belongings in the wreck, and counted himself fortunate to stand 'extreamely cold & wett upon the shore'.[11] His assumption of a foreign title created jealousy among his fellow peers in England, and was resented by his father, who objected to his superior rank and disinherited him.[citation needed] The Queen was furious, and threatened to make him renounce the title. She committed Arundell to the Fleet, remarking that ?I would not have a sheep branded with another man's mark?.[12] Arundell remained under arrest till mid-April 1597, when he was freed, but forbidden to appear at court. In the following months he made frequent appeals to the Queen, but was still denied her favour, and again fell prey to depression. In July his father grudgingly allowed Arundell to live with him at Wardour provided that he not bring his wife with him.[13]

    In 1597 Arundell was arrested on vague suspicions of Catholic espionage. The authorities searched his chamber but could prove nothing against him, and released him to his father's custody on the grounds of his wife's failing health. Arundell's father 'insisted on behaving as a jailer', and Arundell was eventually transferred elsewhere.[14]

    Arundell succeeded his father in December 1598. In 1601, his brother-in-law, Southampton, was on trial for his part in the Essex Rebellion of 8 February 1601. Attempting to distance himself from Southampton's misfortune, Arundell wrote a 'treacherous' letter on 18 February to Sir Robert Cecil, protesting that Southampton's 'ears were hardened against wholesome counsel, for which I thought good to estrange myself from him'.[15]

    In March 1605 Arundell and Southampton sent Captain George Weymouth to found a colony in Virginia. The colonists arrived back in England in mid-July. According to the account written by James Rosier, these were the colonists 'we were to leave in the Country by their agreement with my Lord the Right Honourable Count Arundell'. According to Akrigg, Arundell figures much more prominently in Rosier's account than Southampton, leading Akrigg to conclude that 'the whole voyage may best be regarded as a first attempt to found an American colony that would be an asylum for English Catholics', and that Arundell, who in 1596 had planned a venture to the East Indies, was the principal impetus behind the Weymouth voyage.[16]

    On 4 May 1605 King James I created him Baron Arundell of Wardour.[17] Appointed by the new King as colonel of the English regiment serving the Archduke in Spanish Flanders,[18] Arundell made an unauthorized crossing to the continent in September 1605, disobeying royal orders and incurring the King's anger.[19] A few months later he was named by Guy Fawkes under torture, and briefly suspected of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot.[20]

    In 1607 Arundell's eldest son and heir, Thomas, married Blanche Somerset, the daughter of the Earl of Worcester, without Arundell's consent, resulting in an estrangement between father and son. Arundell's first wife, Mary, died a few weeks after the marriage.[21] On 1 July 1608 Arundell remarried. His second wife was Anne Philipson, the daughter of Miles Philipson, of Crook, Westmorland, and Barbara Sandys, sister of Francis Sandys, of Conishead, Lancashire. She died on 28 June 1637 at Lennox House in London, and was buried on 4 July 1637 at Tisbury, Wiltshire.[22]

    During the 1630s Arundell engaged in 'acrimonious religious disputes' with the Bishop of Durham, and in 1637 attempted to sell Wardour Castle to the King.[23] He died at Wardour on 7 November 1639, and was buried at Tisbury.[24]

    Marriages and issue

    Arundell married firstly, Mary Wriothesley, by whom he had two sons and a daughter:[25]
    ?Thomas Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 1586? 19 May 1643), who succeeded him.
    ?William Arundell of Horningsham, Wiltshire, who married Mary Browne, eldest daughter of Anthony Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montague (d.1629), by Jane Sackville, daughter of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset. Before her marriage to William Arundell she was the wife of William Paulet (d.1621), Lord St. John, eldest son of William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester.[26]
    ?Elizabeth Mary Arundell (wife of Sir John Philpot).

    Arundell's first wife, Mary Wriothesley, was buried at Tisbury, Wiltshire, on 27 June 1607.

    Arundell married secondly, Anne Philipson, third daughter of Miles Philipson of Crook, Westmorland, by whom he had three sons, Matthew, Thomas and Frederick, and six daughters: Katherine (wife of Ralph Eure), Mary (wife of Sir John Somerset), Anne, Frances (wife of John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury), Margaret (wife of John Fortescue), and Clare (wife of Humphrey Weld).[27]

    Arundell's daughter Anne married Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore (d. 30 November 1675).[28] In 1632 King Charles I granted him the proprietorship of Maryland. Anne Arundel County, Maryland is named after Calvert's wife, Anne Arundell. She died 23 July 1649, and was buried at Tisbury, Wiltshire
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    Thomas married Anne Philipson, (3rd dau) on 1 Jul 1608 in St Andrews Holborn, Wiltshire, England. Anne (daughter of Miles Philipson) was born about 1585 in of Calgarth, Westmorland, England; died in Jun 1637. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Anne Philipson, (3rd dau) was born about 1585 in of Calgarth, Westmorland, England (daughter of Miles Philipson); died in Jun 1637.
    Children:
    1. 4. Matthew "of the Severn" Howard, Sr. was born in 1609 in Wardour, Wiltshire, England; was christened on 19 Jun 1609 in St. Andrew's, Holborn, Middlesex, England; died on 4 Sep 1659 in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland; was buried in Howard Homestead Cem, Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co, Maryland.
    2. Catherine Arundell was born about 1611; died after 1630.
    3. Mary Arundell was born about 1613; died after 1640.
    4. Hon. Anne Arundel-Howard was born in 1615; died in 1649.
    5. Frances Arundell was born about 1617; died after 1640.
    6. Margaret Arundell was born about 1618; died after 1640.
    7. Clara Arundell was born about 1620 in Wardour Castle, Wiltshire, England; died on 5 Feb 1691 in London, England.
    8. Frederick Arundel-Howard was born about 1622; died after 1630.