John , Kg, 1st Duke of Norfolk HOWARD

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Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by FrederickLewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr.,, 22-34
The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by WalterLee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 63-9
Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles MosleyEditor-in-Chief, 1999, 2091
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                   John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, as also Marshal and Earl Marshal ofEngland, so created 28 June 1483 (by Richard III, who seems illegally tohave stripped his own nephew Edward, Duke of York (one of 2 Princes inthe Tower) of an identically worded dignity, as also by writ of summons15 Oct 1470 (though previous references to him as Lord Howard are to befound as early as Nov 1467) Lord (Baron) Howard, KG (1472), PC (1483); b1421/2; served Hundred Years War in France 1452-53, MP Norfolk 1455,Yorkist in Wars of Roses, knighted by Edward IV at Yorkist victory ofTowton 29 March 1461; Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 1461 and Oxon 1467;Constable of Colchester and Norwich Castles 1461; Treasurer Household1467-74; Governor Calais early 1470's; commanded English Fleet in navalvictory over Scots in Firth of Forth 1482; Admiral of England, Irelandand Aquitaine 1483, Steward Duchy Lancaster 1483; married c1443 Katherine(died 1465), daughter of Sir William de Moleyns; married 2nd by 22 Jan1467 Margaret, daughter of Sir John Chedworth and widow of (a) JohnNorreys, of Bray, Berks, and (b) Nicholas Wyfold, Lord Mayor of London,and was killed leading Richard III's archers at the front of the army atthe Battle of Bosworth 22 Aug 1485.  [Burke's Peerage]

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Knight of the Garter; named first Duke of Norfolk in June 23, 1483;killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field August 22, 1485, the last of theWars of the Roses, in the service of Richard III.