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Lady Alice Howard (Tendring)

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Birthplace: Tendring Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
Death: October 18, 1426 (60)
Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England (United Kingdom)
Place of Burial: Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir William Tendring and Katherine Tendring
Wife of Sir John Howard, Kt., MP, Sheriff of Essex
Mother of Sir Robert Howard of Stoke Neyland and Henry Howard
Half sister of John Tendring; Elizabeth Tendring; Thomas Clopton of Long, Suffolk and Sir William Clopton, Knight, of Kentwell

Managed by: James Fred Patin, Jr.
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About Lady Alice Howard

Alice TENDRING7,191,1194,1195 was born about 1365 in Tendring Hall, Stoke By Nayland, Suffolk, England. 1194 She died on 18 Oct 1467 in Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England. 1194 She was buried in Stoke Neyland, Suffolk, England.1194 2 SOUR S2511686

Spouse: Sheriff Of Essex John HOWARD. Sheriff Of Essex John HOWARD and Alice TENDRING were married in 1387 in Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England. Children were: Margaret HOWARD, Henry Esq. HOWARD, [Sir Knight] Robert HOWARD, Henry HOWARD.


Lady Alice Tendring Howard

Alice was the only child of Sir William Tendring and Katherine Mylde, the widow of Thomas Clopton. Her older half brother was Sir William Clopton.

Alice was the second wife of the Sheriff of Essex, Sir John Howard and Lord of Wigenhall, the son of Sire Robert Howard and Margaret Scales. They were married before June 1397 at St Mary's.

They had two sons:

  • Sir Robert Howard, Sheriff
  • Henry Howard, Esq.

Alice and John made Tendring Hall the seat for the powerful Howard family. Alice was buried next to John at St Mary's, the church her husband commissioned its rebuilding after Alice's father's death. Their son, Sir Robert, would marry into the equally powerful Mowbray family.

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Lady Alice Howard's Timeline

1365
October 21, 1365
Tendring Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1385
1385
Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1387
1387
Tendring, Essex, England (United Kingdom)
1426
October 18, 1426
Age 61
Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England (United Kingdom)
October 1426
Age 60
Saint Mary, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom