Duke Thomas Howard
(1536-1572)
4th Duke of Norfolk (from 1554)
Died aged c. 36
Wikidata WikipediaThomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, KG (Kenninghall, Norfolk, 10 March 1536 – Tower Hill, London, 2 June 1572) was an English nobleman and politician. Although from a family with strong Roman Catholic leanings, he was raised a Protestant. He was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I through her maternal grandmother, and held many high offices during her reign. Norfolk was the son of the poet, soldier and politician Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. He is believed to have commissioned Thomas Tallis, probably in 1567, to compose his renowned motet in forty voice-parts, Spem in alium. He was executed for his role in the Ridolfi plot.
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Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon 1538 Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, KG 1540 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1547 Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset 1552 Sir Thomas Wyatt 1554 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk 1572 Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford 1641
Tower Hill, London, United Kingdom where they was executed (1572)