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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey as played by David O'Hara in Season 4
& played by Owen Day-Jones in Seasons 1 and 2

Poet, Soldier,Courtier


born 1517 - died 19 January, 1547 executed by order of King Henry VIII
Character's backstory: Henry was brought up with Henry VIII's illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy. He was given the title "Earl of Surrey" by courtesy in 1524 on the passing away of his grandfather, when his father Thomas Howard was created 3rd Duke of Norfolk. He accompanied his first cousin Anne Boleyn, the King, and Henry Fitzroy to France, staying there for over a year as a member of the entourage of Francis I. He served with his father against the Pilgrimage of the Grace in 1536 and was known as a mighty soldier.

The Howard Faction were in opposition to the Seymour Faction so when Jane Seymour became queen there was some scheming and he was accused of sympathizing with the Pilgrimage of the Grace even being imprisoned on suspicion. However, the accusations were patently false since he had been involved in putting down the rebellion. By 1541, he was back in favour and had been made a Knight of the Garter.
Henry served the king in the war with Scotland and in 1543 he fought in Flanders with the English army on the side of Charles V. The following year he was wounded at the siege of Montreuil; in 1545-1546.

In 1546, he made the mistake of announcing his opinion of the obviousness of his father's becoming Protector to young Prince Edward. The Seymours finally had their day, when Surrey ill-advisedly displayed royal quarterings on his shield. Arrested along with his father on charges of treason, they were imprisoned in the Tower, condemned and executed on January 19, 1547 on Tower Hill. His father was luckier since King Henry died the day he was supposed to be executed and the execution was stayed.


Gentility: from a Noble Family

Position:


Personality type: For The Tudors, has been described as "arrogant but sensitive". In history he was known for his irascibility and continuous vaunting of his descent from Edward I which resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions.

Signature look:

Endearing trait(s): He introduced blank verse to English in translating two books of Vergil's Aeneid. Along with his friend Sir Thomas Wyatt, he popularized the Petrarchan sonnet form in English. He was the only poet mentioned on the title page of the well-known miscellany (1557) of printer, Richard Tottel.


Annoying trait(s):
David O'Hara playes Henry Howard
David O'Hara
Season 4




Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk - The Tudors WikiOwen Day-Jones
Owen Day-Jones
played The Duke of Norfolk's son
Left - Season 1, Right - Season 2



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Scandals:

"Several other persons whose names are eminent in the Literature of our country have at different times been prisoners in the Fleet. Among these may be mentioned "the darling of the Muses," Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who about the year 1542 , when in the zenith of his fame as a poet and a soldier, was at two different times committed to this prison. On the first of these occasions it was on account of a private quarrel on the second, for eating flesh in Lent and breaking the windows of the citizens of London with stones from his cross-bow the latter, as Mr. Campbell observes "a strange misdemeanour indeed, for a hero and a man of letters". His own excuse was that he acted from religious motives. "He perceived" he said "that the citizens were sinking into papacy and corrupt manners and he was desirous, by an unexpected chastisement, to demonstrate to them that Divine retribution was about to overtake them". Lord Surrey describes the Fleet as "a noisome place with a pestilent atmosphere".

Excerpt from : London: It's Celebrated Characters
And Remarkable Places By J. Heneage Jesse
- in the chapter on Fleet Prison

CHARACTER CONNECTIONS


Family members:
Father: Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
Mother: Elizabeth Stafford - daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Eleanor, Duchess of Buckingham Percy
Brother: Thomas, 1st Viscount of Bindon Howard
Sister: Mary Howard (future wife of Henry Fitzroy)
Sister: Catherine Howard
Half-Brother: Thomas Howard (From Thomas Howard's first marriage to Anne of York Plantagenet, daughter of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville)
Aunt: Lady Elizabeth Howard (Mother of Anne Boleyn)
Uncle: Lord Edmund Howard (Father of Katherine Howard)
1st Cousin: Anne Boleyn, George Boleyn, Mary Boleyn
1st Cousin: Katherine Howard
1st Cousin Once Removed: Princess Elizabeth Tudor


Marriage:
Lady Frances De Vere; daughter of Sir John De Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford and Lady Elizabeth Trussell

Children:
- Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1536 - 1572); married (1) Mary FitzAlan (2) Margaret Audley
- Jane Howard, Countess of Westmoreland (1537 - 1593)
- Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton (1540–1614)
- Margaret Howard, Baroness Scrope of Bolton (1542–1592); married Henry Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton
- Catherine Howard. Baroness Berkeley (c. 1544 - 1596); married Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley




Friends:
Henry Fitzroy - they grew up and were educated together. ["With a Kinges son, my childish years did pass,] *In the series this character dies at a young age but did in fact live till he was 17 years old & married Henry Howard's sister
Thomas Wyatt - although he was older
Thomas, the Younger Wyatt






Enemies:
Edward Seymour
Thomas Seymour




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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey by Holbein
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
(c.1533 aged approx. 16)
The drawing was originally incorrectly identified as
"Thomas" as many drawings were .
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Caption		Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey by Holbein











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OK, it might just be me, but does the portrait of the younger Henry Howard closely resemble Owen Day Jones, as well as the portrait of him at an older age resemble David O' Hara?
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