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December 2 – The arrest of courtier and poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

| December 2, 2022

December 2 – The arrest of courtier and poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

On this day in Tudor history, 2nd December 1546, in the reign of King Henry VIII, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was arrested. Surrey was a poet, courtier, soldier the eldest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and first cousin of Queens Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. He was arrested after his former […]

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