Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel


The Earl of Arundel
Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel and English Catholic martyr.
Born28 June 1557
Strand, London, England
Died19 October 1595(1595-10-19) (aged 38)
Tower of London, London
BuriedChapel of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London 1595 – 1624

Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle 1624 – 1971

Arundel Cathedral 1971 to present.
Noble familyHoward
Spouse(s)Anne Dacre
IssueThomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel
ParentsThomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
Lady Mary FitzAlan
Arms of Philip Howard from 1557 to 1572: Quarterly of 4: 1: Gules, on a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy argent an escutcheon or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth by an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first (Howard, with augmentation of honor); 2: Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or armed and langued azure a label of three points argent (Plantagenet, arms of Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk); 3: Chequy or and azure (de Warenne, Earl of Surrey); 4: Gules, a lion rampant golden, heraldry of the FitzAlan Family

Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (28 June 1557 – 19 October 1595) was an English nobleman. He was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Howard lived mainly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; he was charged with being a Roman Catholic, quitting England without leave, and sharing in Jesuit plots. For this, he was sent to the Tower of London in 1585. Howard spent ten years in the Tower, until his death from dysentery.