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HOWARD, CATHERINE (d. 1542)

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HOWARD, See also:CATHERINE (d. 1542) , the fifth See also:queen of See also:Henry VIII.. was a daughter of See also:Lord See also:Edmund Howard and a See also:grand-daughter of See also:Thomas Howard, 2nd See also:duke of See also:Norfolk @1. 1524). Her See also:father was very poor, and Catherine lived mainly with See also:Agnes, widow of the 2nd duke of Norfolk, See also:meeting the See also:king at the See also:house of See also:Stephen See also:Gardiner, See also:bishop of See also:Winchester. Henry was evidently charmed by her; the See also:Roman See also:Catholic party, who disliked the See also:marriage with See also:Anne of See also:Cleves, encouraged his attentions; and after Anne's See also:divorce he was privately married to Catherine at Oatlands in See also:July 154o. Soon afterwards she was publicly acknowledged as queen. Before her marriage Catherine had had several lovers, among them being a musician, Henry Mannock, or Manox; her See also:cousin, Thomas Culpepper; And See also:Francis See also:Dereham, to whom she had certainly been betrothed. After becoming queen she occasionally met Dereham and Culpepper, and in See also:November 1541 See also:Archbishop See also:Cranmer informed Henry that his queen's past See also:life had not been stainless. Cranmer had obtained his knowledge indirectly from an old servant of the duchess of Norfolk. Dereham confessed to his relations with Catherine, and after some denials the queen herself admitted that this was true; but denied that she had ever been betrothed to Dereham, or that she had misconducted herself since her marriage. Dereham and Culpepper were executed in See also:December 1541 and their accomplices were punished, but Catherine was released from See also:prison. Some fresh See also:information, however, very soon came to See also:light showing that she had been unchaste since her marriage; a See also:bill of See also:attainder was passed through See also:parliament, and on the 13th of See also:February 1 542 the queen was beheaded.

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Strickland, Lives of the Queens of See also:England (vol. iii. 1877).

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