He was dismissed from his post in 1539, and died in March 1539. In 1531, he was appointed Controller of Calais. She also was the second cousin of Jane Seymour, as her grandmother Elizabeth Tilney was the sister of Seymour's grandmother Anne Say.Īfter Catherine's mother died in 1528, her father married two more times. Therefore, Catherine Howard was the first cousin of Anne Boleyn, and the first cousin once removed of Lady Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth I), Anne's daughter by Henry VIII. Her father's sister, Elizabeth Howard, was the mother of Anne Boleyn. With little to sustain the family, her father often had to beg for the help of his more affluent relatives. Catherine had an aristocratic ancestry as a granddaughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443 – 1524), but her father, Lord Edmund Howard was not wealthy, being the third son of his father – under the rules of primogeniture, the eldest son inherited all of the father's estate.Ĭatherine's mother, Joyce Culpeper already had five children from her first husband, Ralph Leigh (c. 1476 – 1509) when she married Lord Edmund Howard, and they had another six together, Catherine being about her mother's tenth child.
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