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- [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Elizabeth Tilney Howard 1445-1497.
Lady Elizabeth Tilney Bourgchier Howard - Countess of Surrey, Lady-in-waiting to Queen consort Elizabeth Woodville, Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen's daughter, Elizabeth of York, joint godmother to Princess Margaret Tudor.
Daughter of Sir Frederick Tilney, of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, and Boston, Lincolnshire, and Elizabeth Cheney of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire. Granddaughter of Sir Philip Tilney and Isabel Thorpe, Lawrence Cheyne, Esq., High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Elizabeth Cokayne.
Wife of Sir Humphrey Bourgchier, son of sir John Bourgchier and Margery Berners. Sir Humphrey was killed at the Battle of Barnet on 14 April 1471, fighting on the Yorkist side.
Secondly, Elizabeth became the wife of Sir Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, by his first wife, Katherine, the daughter of William Moleyns. They were married 30 April 1472, as arranged by King Edward IV. Sir Thomas was the also son of Elizabeth's son's guardian after the death of his father.
During her marriage to Sir Humphrey, she became a lady in waiting, and carried the train of Queen Elizabeth at her coronation at Westminster Abbey in May of 1465, accompanied the Queen into sanctuary when the King was forced from the throne, and was present at the birth of future King Edward V.
When Sir Thomas was wounded at the Battle of Bosworth and imprisoned in the Tower, his dukedom of Norfolk was forfeited, but Elizabeth was able to keep her own rights. There are letters from Elizabeth to John Paston written from the Isle of Sheppey, with complaints of claims on her rights and trouble with an interring aides to King Henry VII. In December of 1485 she was living in London and closed to her still imprisoned husband.
Finally, in Nov 1487, her husband was released, his earldom and estates restored, and he entered the service of King Henry VII. Both Thomas and Elizabeth attended the coronation of Elizabeth of York, who requested Elizabeth as her Lady of the Chamber.
Elizabeth died 04 April 1497 and was buried in the nun's choir of the Convent of the Minoresses of Aldgate. Her will left instructions to distribute her money to the poor of Whitechapel and Hackney. Sir Thomas Howard would receive licence (dispensation dated 17 August 1497) to marry her cousin, Agnes Tilney, who had six or seven more children.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107757460/elizabeth-howard
- [S164] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2004;), Source number: 8261.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JJK.
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1450 - 1497 (47 years)
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