Paternal Family Tree: Howard
Maternal Family Tree: Maud Vaux -1569
Bernard Howard and Catherine Tattershall were married. He the son of Henry Howard 15th or 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk and Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk.
On 7th March 1626 [his father] Henry Howard 15th or 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk [aged 17] and [his mother] Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk [aged 16] were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Esmé Stewart 3rd Duke Lennox and [his grandmother] Katherine Clifton Duchess Lennox [aged 34]. He the son of Thomas Howard 14th or 21st Earl of Arundel 4th Earl of Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk [aged 40] and Alethea Talbot Countess Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk [aged 41]. They were half fifth cousins.
In 1641 Bernard Howard was born to Henry Howard 15th or 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk [aged 32] and Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk [aged 31].
On 4th October 1646 [his grandfather] Thomas Howard 14th or 21st Earl of Arundel 4th Earl of Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk [aged 61] died. His son [his father] Henry [aged 38] succeeded 14th or 22nd Earl Arundel, 5th Earl Surrey, 2nd Earl Norfolk, 12th Baron Maltravers, 12th Baron Arundel, 15th Baron Mowbray, 16th Baron Segrave. [his mother] Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk [aged 36] by marriage Countess Arundel, Countess Norfolk, Countess Norfolk.
Around 1652 [his brother] Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk [aged 23] and [his sister-in-law] Anne Somerset Countess Norfolk [aged 21] were married. She the daughter of Henry Somerset 1st Marquess Worcester and Anne Russell Countess Worcester. He the son of [his father] Henry Howard 15th or 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk [aged 43] and [his mother] Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk [aged 42]. They were fifth cousin once removed.
On 17th April 1652 [his father] Henry Howard 15th or 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk [aged 43] died. His son [his brother] Thomas [aged 25] succeeded 16th or 23rd Earl Arundel, 6th Earl Surrey, 3rd Earl Norfolk, 13th Baron Maltravers, 13th Baron Arundel, 16th Baron Mowbray, 17th Baron Segrave.
On 3rd June 1654 [his grandmother] Alethea Talbot Countess Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk [aged 69] died. Her grandson [his brother] Thomas [aged 27] succeeded 14th Baron Furnivall, 18th Baron Strange Blackmere, 15th Baron Talbot.
In 1660 [his brother] Thomas Howard 5th Duke of Norfolk [aged 32] was restored 5th Duke Norfolk by King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland in response to a petition by Parliament it having previously been forfeited in 1572 by his great-great-grandfather Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk who had been executed for his involvement in the Ridolphi Plot.
John Evelyn's Diary. 1st August 1662. Mr. H. Howard [aged 34], his brothers Charles [aged 32], Edward [aged 25], Bernard [aged 21], Philip [aged 33], now the Queen's [aged 23] Almoner (all brothers of the Duke of Norfolk, still in Italy), came with a great train, and dined with me; Mr. H. Howard leaving with me his eldest and youngest sons, Henry [aged 7] and Thomas [aged 5], for three or four days, my son, John [aged 7], having been sometime bred up in their father's house.
On 16th January 1668 George Villiers 2nd Duke of Buckingham [aged 39] fought a duel at Barn Elms with Francis Talbot 11th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 45] with whose wife Anna Maria Brudenell Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 25] he was conducting a relationship. The duel may, less plausibly, be about Talbot's first wife Anne Conyers although Pepys appears to contradict this. Francis Talbot 11th Earl of Shrewsbury was fatally wounded dying two months later. Following the duel George Villiers 2nd Duke of Buckingham commenced living with Shrewsbury's wife Anne Maria. His wife Mary Fairfax Duchess Buckingham [aged 29] returned to live with her parents.
Admiral Robert Holmes [aged 46] and Jenkins acted as seconds to George Villiers 2nd Duke of Buckingham. Jenkins was killed.
John Talbot of Lacock [aged 37] and Bernard Howard [aged 27] acted as seconds to Francis Talbot 11th Earl of Shrewsbury. Note. Bernard Howard a guess based on name and age.
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Samuel Pepys' Diary. 17th January 1668. Up, and by coach to White Hall to attend the Council there, and here I met first by Mr. Castle [aged 39] the shipwright, whom I met there, and then from the whole house the discourse of the duell yesterday between the Duke of Buckingham [aged 39], Holmes, and one Jenkins, on one side, and my Lord of Shrewsbury [aged 45], Sir John Talbot [aged 37], and one Bernard Howard [aged 27], on the other side: and all about my Lady Shrewsbury [aged 25]1, who is a whore, and is at this time, and hath for a great while been, a whore to the Duke of Buckingham. And so her husband challenged him, and they met yesterday in a close near Barne-Elmes, and there fought: and my Lord Shrewsbury is run through the body, from the right breast through the shoulder: and Sir John Talbot all along up one of his armes; and Jenkins killed upon the place, and the rest all, in a little measure, wounded. This will make the world think that the King [aged 37] hath good councillors about him, when the Duke of Buckingham, the greatest man about him, is a fellow of no more sobriety than to fight about a whore. And this may prove a very bad accident to the Duke of Buckingham, but that my Baroness Castlemayne [aged 27] do rule all at this time as much as ever she did, and she will, it is believed, keep all matters well with the Duke of Buckingham: though this is a time that the King will be very backward, I suppose, to appear in such a business. And it is pretty to hear how the King had some notice of this challenge a week or two ago, and did give it to my Lord Generall [aged 59] to confine the Duke, or take security that he should not do any such thing as fight: and the Generall trusted to the King that he, sending for him, would do it, and the King trusted to the Generall; and so, between both, as everything else of the greatest moment do, do fall between two stools. The whole House full of nothing but the talk of this business; and it is said that my Lord Shrewsbury's case is to be feared, that he may die too; and that may make it much the worse for the Duke of Buckingham: and I shall not be much sorry for it, that we may have some sober man come in his room to assist in the Government. Here I waited till the Council rose, and talked the while, with Creed, who tells me of [his brother] Mr. Harry Howard's' [aged 39] giving the Royal Society a piece of ground next to his house, to build a College on, which is a most generous act. And he tells me he is a very fine person, and understands and speaks well; and no rigid Papist neither, but one that would not have a Protestant servant leave his religion, which he was going to do, thinking to recommend himself to his master by it; saying that he had rather have an honest Protestant than a knavish Catholique. I was not called into the Council; and, therefore, home, first informing myself that my Lord Hinchingbrooke [aged 20] hath been married this week to my Lord Burlington's [aged 55] daughter [aged 23]; so that that great business is over; and I mighty glad of it, though I am not satisfied that I have not a Favour sent me, as I see Attorney Montagu [aged 50] and the Vice-Chamberlain have [aged 58]. But I am mighty glad that the thing is done.
Note 1. Anna Maria, daughter of Robert Brudenel, second Earl of Cardigan [aged 60]. Walpole says she held the Duke of Buckingham's horse, in the habit of a page, while he was fighting the duel with her husband. She married, secondly, George Rodney Bridges, son of Sir Thomas Bridges of Keynsham, Somerset [aged 51], Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles IL, and died April 20th, 1702. A portrait of the Countess of Shrewsbury, as Minerva, by Lely.
Calendar of State Papers Charles II 27 Jan 1668. 27th January 1688? Petition of John Bennett, high bailiff of Westminster, to the King, for similar recommendation to Bernard Howard [aged 47], Sir John Talbot [aged 57], and Sir Robert Holmes [aged 66], who were engaged in the encounter in which William Jenkins was slain, but his Majesty is inclined to pardon them before conviction. [Ibid. No. 94.]
In 1674 [his mother] Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk [aged 64] died.
On 14th March 1674 [his son] Bernard Howard was born to Bernard Howard [aged 33] and Catherine Tattershall. He married Anne Roper, daughter of Christopher Roper 5th Baron Teynham and Elizabeth Browne Baroness Teynham, and had issue.
Around 1675 [his brother] Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk [aged 46] and [his sister-in-law] Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk [aged 32] were married. He the son of [his father] Henry Howard 15th or 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk and [his mother] Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk.
In 1675 [his brother] Cardinal Philip Howard [aged 46] was appointed Cardinal by Pope Clement X [aged 84].
On 13th December 1677 Thomas Howard 5th Duke of Norfolk [aged 50] died in Padua unmarried. He had suffered mental disabilities all his life. His brother Henry [aged 49] succeeded 6th Duke Norfolk, 17th or 24th Earl Arundel, 7th Earl Surrey, 4th Earl Norfolk, 18th Baron Segrave, 19th Baron Strange Blackmere, 17th Baron Mowbray, 16th Baron Talbot, 15th Baron Furnivall, 14th Baron Maltravers, 14th Baron Arundel. Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk [aged 34] by marriage Duchess Norfolk. The marriage being so unpopular with his family they went abroad for some time.
On 13th January 1684 [his brother] Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk [aged 55] died. His son [his nephew] Henry [aged 29] succeeded 7th Duke Norfolk, 18th or 25th Earl Arundel, 8th Earl Surrey, 5th Earl Norfolk, 2nd Earl Norwich, 18th Baron Mowbray, 19th Baron Segrave, 16th Baron Furnivall, 20th Baron Strange Blackmere, 17th Baron Talbot, 15th Baron Maltravers, 15th Baron Arundel, 2nd Baron Howard of Castle Rising, Earl Marshal. Mary Mordaunt Duchess Norfolk [aged 25] by marriage Duchess Norfolk.
John Evelyn's Diary. 27th January 1685. I din'd at Lord Sunderland's [aged 43], being invited to heare that celebrated voice of Mr. Pordage, newly come from Rome; his singing was after the Venetian recitative, as masterly as could be, and with an excellent voice both treble and basse; Dr. Walgrave accompanied it with his theorba lute, on which he perform'd beyond imagination, and is doubtlesse orie of the greatest masters in Europe on that charming in strument. Pordage is a priest, as Mr. Bernard Howard [aged 44] told me in private. There was in the roome where we din'd, and in his bed-chamber, those incomparable pieces of Columbus, a Flagellation, the Grammar-schoole, the Venus and Adonis of Titian; and of Vandyke's that picture of the late E. of Digby (father of the Countess of Sunderland [aged 39]), and Earle of Bedford [aged 68], Sr Kenelm Digby, and two Ladys of incomparable performance; besides that of Moses and the burning bush of Bassano, and several other pieces of ye best masters. A marble head of M. Brutus, &c.
In 1694 [his brother] Cardinal Philip Howard [aged 65] died.
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In 1717 Bernard Howard [aged 76] died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 20 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 6 Grand Son of King James II of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 22 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 14 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk 
6 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Howard Earl of Surrey 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stafford Duchess Norfolk 
5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford 
5 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Vere Countess of Surrey 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Trussell Countess of Oxford 8 x Great Granddaughter of King William I of Scotland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Philip Howard 13th or 20th Earl of Arundel 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Fitzalan 11th or 18th Earl of Arundel 
4 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Fitzalan 12th or 19th Earl of Arundel 5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Percy Countess Arundel 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Fitzalan Duchess Norfolk 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset 
4 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Grey 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Wotton Marchioness Dorset 
Grandfather: Thomas Howard 14th or 21st Earl of Arundel 4th Earl of Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland 
6 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Dacre 3rd Baron Dacre Gilsland 7th Baron Greystoke 5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Greystoke 6th Baroness Greystoke Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 
4 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Dacre 4th Baron Dacre Gilsland 8th Baron Greystoke 5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury 
3 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Talbot Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Hastings Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 
3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Dacre Countess Arundel 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Leybourne
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Leybourne
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Pennington
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Leybourne Duchess Norfolk
father: Henry Howard 15th or 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury 3 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury 4 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Hastings Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury 5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Dacre 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Greystoke 6th Baroness Greystoke Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Gilbert Talbot 7th Earl of Shrewsbury 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Manners 11th Baron Ros Helmsley 
6 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland 
4 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne St Leger Baroness Ros of Helmsley 
3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Gertrude Manners Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Paston 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland 10 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bridget Heydon 9 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Grandmother: Alethea Talbot Countess Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Cavendish 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Cavendish 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Scudamore 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cavendish 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Carrington Smith
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Smith
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Cavendish Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Harwick
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Hardwick 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Pinchbeck 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Bess of Hardwick Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Leeke of Hasland 7 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Leeke 8 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Vaux 
Bernard Howard 6 x Great Grandson of King James II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Matthew Stewart 2nd Earl Lennox 
10 x Great Grandson of King David I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stewart 3rd Earl Lennox Great Grandson of King James II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Lennox Granddaughter of King James II of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Stewart Duke Orkney 2 x Great Grandson of King James II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Stewart 1st Earl Atholl 2 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel or Elizabeth Stewart Countess Lennox 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Sinclair Countess Atholl 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Esme Stewart 1st Duke Lennox 3 x Great Grandson of King James II of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Queuille Lady Aubigny
Grandfather: Esmé Stewart 3rd Duke Lennox 
4 x Great Grandson of King James II of Scotland
Great x 1 Grandmother: Catherine Balsac Duchess Lennox
mother: Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk 5 x Great Granddaughter of King James II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Clifton of Walsingham Parva 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Clifton of Barrington
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Clifton
Great x 1 Grandfather: Gervase Clifton 1st Baron Clifton 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Stanley 1st Baron Monteagle 
3 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Stanley 2nd Baron Monteagle 4 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Vaughan Baroness Grey Wilton 
10 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Stanley 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Grandmother: Katherine Clifton Duchess Lennox 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Darcy 1st Baron Darcy Templehurst 
5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Arthur Darcy 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dousabella Tempest 
5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Darcy 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Carew of Beddington in Surrey 
5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Carew 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bryan 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Katherine Darcy 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Fermor 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine Fermor
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Vaux 1st Baron Vaux Harrowden
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Vaux