John Howard (died 1437)

Sir John Howard (died 1437) with his second wife Alice Tendring. 1637 drawing by Henry Lilly, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, of stained glass depiction in Stoke-by-Nayland Church in Suffolk. Displaying arms of Howard impaling Tendring
Arms of Sir John Howard (died 1437): Gules, a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy argent. After the Battle of Flodden in 1513 his descendant the 2nd Duke of Norfolk was granted an augmentation of honour to these arms by King Henry VIII

Sir John Howard (c. 1366–1437), of Wiggenhall and East Winch, in Norfolk, England, was a landowner, soldier, courtier, administrator and politician. His grandson was John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, the great-grandfather of two queens, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, two of the six wives of King Henry VIII.[1]

  1. ^ J.S. Roskell; L. Clark; C. Rawcliffe (eds.), "Howard, Sir John (c.1366–1437), of Wiggenhall and East Winch, Norf., Stoke Nayland, Suff., Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, and Fowlmere, Cambs.", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386–1421, retrieved 27 February 2018