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tutor throne, the Howards would be at the top of that list. They were dukes, generals, poets,

queens, and they were also prisoners, traitors, and victims of the executioner's acts. They reached

dazzling heights of influence only to fall into disgrace again and again. Yet,

somehow, generation after generation, they clawed their way back into royal favor. The Howard's story

runs straight alongside the Tudor dynasty itself. When the Tudors rose at Bosworth in 1485, the Howards were there. And when the

dynasty ended in 1603, the Howards were still at court. Their family produced two Queens of

England, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, nieces of the formidable Duke of Norfolk. Another Howard,

Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, was one of the most brilliant

poets of the age. Yet, nearly all of them faced imprisonment in the Tower of London, and

several were executed on charges of treason. In this episode, we are going to trace the Howard family

through the Tudor period, their early rehabilitation under Henry the 7th,

their military glory under Henry the 8th, the dangerous marriages and alliances that led them to the

scaffold, and their survival against all odds into the reign of Elizabeth.

Hello, friend, and welcome back to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network, and the original Tudor History podcast telling stories of Tudor England since 2009.

I am your host, Heather. I am delighted that you are here with me to talk about

the Howards. I don't know whether you've noticed a pattern going on here the last couple of weeks,

but I've been doing this thing where I've been going through and tracing one family through the period,

and I realized that I hadn't yet done the Howards, which seems like a really big missing. I've done

the Grays and I think we did the Persis and we've done some of the other families, the Nevels,

but we never actually have done the Howards yet. So it's time to remedy that. So let's get into it.

Now the Howards rose from an established Norfolk Gentry family into the high nobility in the 15th century.

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