Individual Details

Sheriff of Essex & Hertford, son of Robert Howard and Margaret Scales. He was born in Wiggenhall, County Norfolk, and died November 17, 1436 in Palestine.


Arundel Castle, Arundel, West Sussex, was the family home of the Howards, Dukes of Norfolk when they were not imprisoned in the Tower of London. This castle has overlooked the charming town of Arundel and the River Arun for almost 1,000 years. The Castle featured beautiful landscaped grounds and a fully restored Victorian kitchen garden. Arundel contains a Library with a spectacular carved and vaulted ceiling. There is a restaurant serving lunches and afternoon teas and a delightful gift shop.

Castle Howard is still in the hands of the Howard family, Dukes of Carlisle. Ann Howard, see below, married her cousin, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, who was also a descendant of Katherine Mylde and William deTendring by Alice deTendring and John Howard. It is a magnificent palace and one of Britain’s most spectacular stately homes. The impressive Great Hall and beautiful rooms are filled with fine furniture, paintings, and objects d’art. The extensive grounds feature lakes, lovely woodland, and a rose garden. For more details, see www.castlehoward.co.uk


Found on the website www.historyofparliamentonline.org:
"The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History"
Members 1386-1421
"HOWARD, Sir John (c.1366-1437), of Wiggenhall and East Winch, Norf., Stoke Nayland, Suff., Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, and Fowlmere, Cambs"
He was son and heir of Robert Howard who d. 1389 of Wiggenhall and East Winch by Margaret, dau of Robert, 3rd Lord Scales (d. 1369) and Katherine, sister and coheir of William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk.
John married (1) about 1380 to Margaret, daughter of John the 5th Lord Plaiz. Before June of 137 he was married to Alice, daughter and heir of Sir William Tendring of Tendring Hall and Stoke Nayland, by Katherine, the widow of Sir Thomas Clopton.
He was knighted by March of 1387.
John served in Parliament from Essex - Sep 1397 - and from Cambridgeshire in 1407 and Suffolk in 1422.
John's grandfather, Sir John Howard, served as admiral of the northern fleet in 1335-7. The Howard estates included five manors and the property of John's grandmother, the deBoys heiress, in south Norfolk and in Suffolk. John's father died in 1389 when he was about 23, and although his mother lived until 1416, he received most of his inheritance at the death of his father. Both marriages added considerably to his land holdings, qualifying him for Parliament from there shires. In 1404 he was one of few landowners of England with a net income of over 500 marks a year.
John died in Jerusalem, 17 Nov 1437, during a pilgimage to the Holy Land but his body was apparently returned for burial next to his second wife, at Stoke Nayland.

Birth	Ca 1366
Marriage	Bef Jun 1397	Alice de Tendring
Death	17 Nov 1436	Jerusalem

Spouse	Alice de Tendring ( - 1426)
Child	Henry Howard ( - 1437)

Father	Sir Robert Howard (1342 - 1388)
Mother	Margaret de Scales ( - 1416)