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| | Earls and dukes of Norfolk - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Norfolk was a brutal and licentious man, but was a supporter of the Roman church, being, as he himself admits, "quick against the sacramentaries." As a soldier he was serviceable to Henry VIII., but as a diplomatist he was a failure, being far inferior to Wolsey and to Cromwell. |
 | | Thomas Howard, 4th duke (1536-1572), son of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, was born on the 10th of March 1536. |
 | | Norfolk's first wife, Mary (1540-1557), daughter and heiress of Henry Fitzalan, 12th earl of Arundel, bore him a son, Philip, who in consequence of his father's attainder was not allowed to succeed to the dukedom of Norfolk, but became 13th earl of Arundel in succession to his maternal grandfather in 1580. |
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