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Lord William Howard (
December 19,
1563 – October,
1640), known as "Belted or Bauld (bold) Will," third son of
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (executed in
1572), and of his second wife Margaret, daughter of
Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, was born at
Audley End in
Essex.
He married on
October 28,
1577 Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre of Gillesland, and proceeded subsequently to the
University of Cambridge. Being suspected of treasonable intentions together with his elder brother,
Philip, earl of Arundel (husband of his sister-in-law Anne Dacre), he was imprisoned in
1583,
1585 and
1589. He joined the
church of Rome in
1584, both brothers being dispossessed by the queen of a portion of their Dacre estates, which were, however, restored in
1601 for a payment of £10,000.
Howard then took up his residence with his children and grandchildren at
Naworth Castle in
Cumberland, restored the castle, improved the estate and established order in that part of the country. In
1603, on the accession of
James, he'd been restored in blood. In
1618 he was made one of the commissioners for the border, and performed great services in upholding the law and suppressing marauders. Lord William was a learned and accomplished scholar, praised by
Camden, to whom he sent inscriptions and drawings from relics collected by him from the Roman wall, as "a singular lover of valuable antiquity and learned withal." Sir
Walter Scott referred to him as
Belted Will in the
Lay of the Last Minstrel.
He collected a valuable library, of which most of the printed works remain still at Naworth, though the manuscripts have been dispersed, a portion being now in the Arundel manuscripts in the
Royal College of Arms; he corresponded with
Ussher and was intimate with Camden,
Spelman, and
Cotton, whose eldest son married his daughter. He published in
1592 an edition of
Florence of Worcester's
Chronicon ex Chronicis, dedicated to
Lord Burghley, and drew up a
genealogy of his family.
He died in October
1640 at Greystock, to which place he'd been removed when failing in health to escape the Scots who were threatening an advance on Naworth. He had a large family of children, of whom Philip, his heir, was the grandfather of
Charles, 1st earl of Carlisle, and Francis was the ancestor of the Howards of Corby.
There is a school in Brampton, Cumbria named after William Howard.
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