Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard's Uncle, Thomas Howard

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, is often vilified as one of the Tudor century's most unpleasant characters. His was a family marked by treason, beheadings and incarceration - a dynasty whose pride and ambition secured only their downfall. But can this uncle to two wives of Henry VIII be rescued at all from infamy?

To unpick this complex man, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Robert Hutchinson, author of House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty.

This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:48.0	Seeing your father stripped of his land, the states and titles
0:52.0	and being thrown into prison would not be an easy starting life for anyone.
0:56.0	And should your family, once one of the most powerful in England, fall from grace,
1:02.0	your life would perhaps be harder still because you had started from that position of privilege.
1:07.0	If you should go on to become rather hardened, selfish, arrogant even,
1:14.0	we might say this was a certain degree of self-preservation.
1:19.0	But Thomas Howard, the Duke of Norfolk, does rather stretch our sympathies.
1:24.0	And he certainly hasn't tended to be treated with sympathy or kindness by the annals of history.
1:29.0	Instead, this uncle of not one but two wives to Henry VIII is largely vilified.
1:36.0	If the experiences of his young life were not enough to forgive him for his behaviour,
1:41.0	what did he do to become regarded as one of the chewed assentries most unpleasant characters?
1:46.0	And can we at all rescue him from this infamous hall of fame?
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