Anne Howard | |
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| Countess of Arundel | |
 Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel | |
| Born | Anne Dacre 21 March 1557 Carlisle, Cumberland, England |
| Died | 19 April 1630 (aged 73) Shifnal Manor, Shropshire |
| Buried | Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex |
| Spouse(s) | Philip Howard, 1st Earl of Arundel |
| Issue | Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel |
| Father | Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre |
| Mother | Elizabeth Leyburne |
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Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel (née Dacre; 21 March 1557 – 19 April 1630), was an English poet, noblewoman, and religious conspirator. She lived a life devoted to her son, Thomas Howard, and religion, as she converted to the illegal and underground Catholic Church in England in 1582, in defiance of the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I's policy of Caesaropapism. She was known to be a "woman of strong character, and of religious desposition... whose influence soon made itself felt upon her husband... the increasing seriousness of his thoughts led him in the direction of Romanism...".[1] She was also known as an author of Christian poetry and for literary works written about her.
- ^ Travitsky, Betty. The Paradise of Women: Writings by Englishwomen of the Renaissance. New York: Columbia UP, 1989