Henry
Howard, the son of Thomas Howard, Duke
of Norfolk, was born in 1516. He was a close friend of Henry Fitzroy,
Duke of Richmond, the illegitimate son of Henry
VIII.
Henry Fitzroy eventually married Henry Howard's sister.
Howard
served under his father in Scotland (1542) and France (1544) and became
Governor of Boulogne in 1545. An opponent of the Protestant religion,
Henry
VIII ordered
his arrest and execution in 1547. A talented poet, his Songs
and Sonnets were published posthumously in 1557.
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