HISTORICAL INFORMATION
BIRTH NAME
Katheryn Howard
TENURE
28 July 1540 – 23 November 1541
DATES
1523 – 13 February 1542 (aged 18-19)
CAUSE OF DEATH
Execution by beheading
FAMILY
Edmund Howard (father)
Joyce Culpeper (mother)
Henry Howard (brother)
Charles Howard (brother)
George Howard (brother)
Margaret Howard (sister)
Mary Howard (sister)
John Leigh (maternal half-brother)
Ralph Leigh (maternal half-brother)
Isabel Leigh (maternal half-sister)
Joyce Leigh (maternal half-sister)
Margaret Leigh (maternal half-sister)
Henry VIII (husband, 1540–1542)
Anne Boleyn (paternal cousin)
Jane Seymour (second cousin)
Elizabeth Cheney (great-grandmother)
Elizabeth I (first cousin once-removed)
Edward VI (second cousin once-removed)
Mary Seymour (second cousin once-removed)
Thomas Culpeper (sixth cousin once-removed)
Dorothy Troyes (step-mother)
Margaret Mundy (step-mother)
Agnes Tilney (father's step-mother)
Edward I of England (ancestor)
SIGNATURE
Catherine Howard Signature
"Katheryn"
Katherine Howard was Queen of England from 1540 to 1541 due to her marriage to King Henry VIII. She was his fifth wife and was succeeded by Catherine Parr
About
Born: 1524, Lambeth, London, United Kingdom
Died: February 13, 1542, Tower of London, London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Henry VIII (m. 1540–1541)
Parents: Lord Edmund Howard, Joyce Culpeper
Catherine Howard (c. 1523 – 13 February 1542), also spelt Katheryn Howard,[b] was Queen of England from 1540 until 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, a cousin to Anne Boleyn (the second wife of Henry VIII), and the niece of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Howard was a prominent politician at Henry's court, and he secured her a place in the household of Henry's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, where she caught the King's interest. She married him on 28 July 1540 at Oatlands Palace in Surrey, just 19 days after the annulment of his marriage to Anne. He was 49, and she was between 16 to 17 years old.
