Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey

Who was Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey?

Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey was the daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell. She married firstly, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth Stafford, by whom she had two sons and three daughters:

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, married Mary FitzAlan Margaret Audley Elizabeth Leyburne.

Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, who died unmarried.

Jane Howard, who married Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland.

Margaret Howard, who married Henry Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton.

Katherine Howard, who married Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley.

She married secondly Thomas Staynings, by whom she had one child.