Sir JOHN HOWARD knt was constituted in the ninth year of King Edward III admiral and captain of the king's navy in the North and in the following year had an assignation of 153 7s Od for the wages of himself with his men at arms &c in that service. And the same year having affairs to transact beyond the seas the king granted him his protection dated 24th April 1337 to be in force till the 1st August following Sir John was sheriff of Norfolk in 1345.
He married Alice daughter of Sir Robert de Boys and sister and heiress of Sir Robert de Boys of Fursfield in Norfolk by which alliance the whole inheritance of the Boys's came into the Howard family.
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Sir Admiral of Navy -------------------- John Howard, Knt., of East Winch and Wiggenhall, Norfolk, Admiral of the Fleet north of the Thames, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, Escheator of Norfolk and Suffolk, son and heir. He married before 11 Oct. 1338 Alice de Bois, daughter of Robert de Bois, Knt., of Fersfield and Garboldisham, Norfolk, and Brokes (in Ipswich), Suffolk, by Christian, daughter of William le Latimer, Knt. They had two sons, Robert, Knt., and John, and one daughter, Anne (wife of Robert Pashley, Knt.). Alice was heiress in 1333 to her brother, Robert de Bois, Knt. Sir John Howard was living 14 Nov. 1347, when he was granted license for a weekly market and yearly fair at Wiggenhall, Norfolk. His widow, Alice, died 6 Sept. 1372.
Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson -------------------- Acceded: 1336
Sheriff of Norfolk
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