Claire | December 22, 2015

On this day in 1541, members of the Howard and Tilney family, plus their staff, were tried for misprision of treason for covering up the “unlawful, carnal, voluptuous, and licentious life” of Queen Catherine Howard while she lived with the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk at Lambeth. The people listed in the trial documents included Lord […]

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Tags: Agnes Tilney, Agnes Tylney, Catherine Howard, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, fall of Catherine Howard, Howards and Tilneys, Joan Bulmer, Katherine Howard, Katherine Tilney, trial of Howards and Tilneys

Claire | December 20, 2013

On this day in 1541, A “very sickly” Agnes Tilney, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London after the fall of her granddaughter, Queen Catherine Howard, begged Henry VIII for forgiveness. She also confessed to having another £800 hidden at Norfolk House. The poor woman must have been terrified, as […]

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Tags: Agnes Tilney, Catherine Howard, Howards, Katherine Howard

Claire | December 4, 2013

On 4th December 1541, Thomas Wriothesley and William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton, wrote to Sir Ralph Sadler, Henry VIII’s principal secretary, regarding a visit they had made to Agnes Tilney, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk and step-grandmother of Queen Catherine Howard. They reported that “she was not so sick as she made out, but able enough […]

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Tags: Agnes Tilney, Catherine Howard, Catherine Howard's fall, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, Duchess of Norfolk, Francis Dereham, Katherine Howard

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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Tags: Agnes Tilney, Catherine Howard, Elizabeth Tilney, Howard Family, Katherine Howard, Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk

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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Tags: Agnes Tilney, Catherine Howard, Katherine Howard, The Howards

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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Tags: Agnes Tilney, Catherine Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, Francis Dereham, Howards, Katherine Howard, Thomas Culpeper