Catherine HOWARD^[1]

Abt 1525 - 1543  (~ 18 years)

• Name	Catherine HOWARD  [2, 3]
  Alt. Birth	Abt 1521  [2]
  	Alt. Birth
  Born	Abt 1525	Lambeth, London, Middlesex, England   [4]
  Gender	Female
  _UID	E92C85E46E334FFD9F433E3F93CB4A0D7F1C
  Died	13 Feb 1542-1543	Tower Of London, Middlesex, England (Beheaded)   [2, 4]
  Person ID	I13468	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Edmund HOWARD, Sir Knight,   b. Abt 1478, Tisbury, Wiltshire, England ,   d. 1538  (Age ~ 60 years)
  Mother	Joyce CULPEPER,   b. 1480, Oxenheath, Tonbridge, Kent, England ,   d. Aft 1527  (Age 48 years)
  Married	1st Wife   [2]
  Family ID	F6890	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Married	28 Jul 1540	Hampton Court Palace, Richmond, Surrey, England   [2, 4]
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016
  Family ID	F6891	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Catherine Howard; born c 1521/2; married 28 July 1540, as his 5th wife, Henry VIII and was beheaded 13 Feb 1542/3. [Burke's Peerage] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- Following copied from Sonja Griesbach, World Connect db=sgriesbach, rootsweb.com: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- Katherine Howard (1520-1542) Born: 1520 at Lambeth, Surrey Queen of England Died: 13th February 1542 at Tower Green, London Katherine Howard, fifth Queen of Henry VIII (and cousin of her predecessor, Anne Boleyn), was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper. Her mother died when she was a little girl and Katherine was brought up by her grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, in whose household, at Horsham (Norfolk) and then Lambeth (Surrey), she was very carelessly looked after. Katherine seems to have allowed herself to grow accustomed to acts of impropriety. In the year 1540, she was brought to Court, perhaps with the intention of captivating Henry, by the agency of the Catholic party, then swayed by Bishop Gardiner; and she was secretly married to the King in the July of that year. Early in August, Henry acknowledged her as Queen. Her conduct in this capacity was light-minded, if not wicked. Before the next year was out, she was having secret interviews with some of her old lovers, one of whom she actually made her secretary. Henry was utterly taken aback when he discovered evidence of this and of the immorality of his wife's past life. When confronted with this evidence, however, Katherine admitted her previous guilt only, denying that she had ever been unfaithful to Henry. She was, attainted of high treason in January 1542 and executed on February 13th.

  
  

• Sources

  [S579] Jim Weber. [S289] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles M o s l e y Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 26 May 2003., 2091 (Reliability: 3). [S216] Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on, Henry VIII (Reliability: 3). [S116] Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, by David Faris, 2nd Edition 1999, NEHGS, 363 (Reliability: 3).