Today in 1542 Agnes Tilney, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, was pardoned after having spent five months in the Tower of London because of her association with Katherine Howard, her step-granddaughter.
Katherine had been living in Agnes’ home when she was young, and it was here, in Lambeth, where she got up to so much trouble with her music tutor, Henry Manox, and with Francis Dereham. Agnes had been taken to the Tower in December to be questioned on what she knew about Katherine’s behavior, and what she may have kept secret. Though she would regain some of her lands, the bulk of it had been stripped away from her, including Norfolk Hall, which became the property of the Duke of Norfolk in 1543.
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Claire Ridgway at the 2018 Tudor Summit talking about Katherine Howard
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast, one of the longest running indie history podcasts, going since 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. She writes books, created the original Tudor Planner (a yearly diary filled with Tudor history) and in 2019 created the world's first Tudorcon (you can "attend" online this year!). She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 20 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history.