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Elizabeth Tilney, grandmother of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, and her cousin Agnes Tilney, their step-grandmother by Marilyn Roberts

Claire | September 14, 2012

How very strange that the news item about the Tilney scroll has come up just as I am finishing a short article I thought Claire might be able to use sometime on Elizabeth Tilney, grandmother of both Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard. Thank you, Claire, for bringing this wonderful find to our attention. When The
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Category: Background | 4 Comments »
Tags: Agnes Tilney, Catherine Howard, Elizabeth Tilney, Howard Family, Katherine Howard, Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk

5th May 1542 – Duchess Agnes Pardoned

Claire | May 5, 2012

Today, we have a guest article from author and historian Marilyn Roberts who wrote a series of articles on the Howards for us before Christmas. Over to Marilyn… We last met Agnes, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk and the other prisoners on 13th February 1542, pondering their futures on the day of her step-granddaughter Katherine Howard’s
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Category: Six Wives, Tudor Characters | 7 Comments »
Tags: Agnes Tilney, Catherine Howard, Katherine Howard, The Howards

Katherine Howard, the Duchess and Norfolk House by Marilyn Roberts

Claire | December 6, 2011

Marilyn Roberts, who has been working on a book on Norfolk House, has been kind enough to share the following article with us to tie in with the anniversary of the interrogations of the Howard family in December 1541. Katherine Howard, the Duchess and Norfolk House by Marilyn Roberts It is 470 years ago this
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Category: Six Wives, Tudor Characters, Tudor Events | 14 Comments »
Tags: Agnes Tilney, Catherine Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, Francis Dereham, Howards, Katherine Howard, Thomas Culpeper