Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was a prominent 16th-century English nobleman and poet credited with pioneering the English sonnet form and introducing blank verse into English literature.

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instanceOf English nobleman
Renaissance poet
Tudor-period nobleman
poet
accusedOf quartering the royal arms of England
treason
causeOfDeath beheading
child Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton
Jane Howard, Duchess of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
contemporaryOf Thomas Wyatt
surface form: Sir Thomas Wyatt
convictedIn trial for treason, 1547
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
dateOfBirth 1516
1517
dateOfDeath 1547-01-19
educatedAt court of Henry VIII
employer Henry VIII of England
era Tudor period
familyName Howard
father Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
genre elegy
poetry
sonnet
givenName Henry
influenced Thomas Wyatt
William Shakespeare
later English sonneteers
influencedBy Italian Renaissance poetry
Francesco Petrarca
surface form: Petrarch
knownFor introducing blank verse into English literature
pioneering the English sonnet form
refining the English or Shakespearean sonnet structure
languageOfWorkOrName English
mannerOfDeath execution
mother Elizabeth Stafford, Duchess of Norfolk
movement English Renaissance
Petrarchism
nobleFamily House of Howard
nobleTitle Earl of Surrey
notableWork Virgil's Aeneid
surface form: Aeneid, Book II (English blank verse translation)

Virgil's Aeneid
surface form: Aeneid, Book IV (English blank verse translation)

English translations of Petrarch’s sonnets
occupation courtier
poet
soldier
participantIn Henry VIII’s 1544 campaign in France
Italian Wars
placeOfBirth Hunsdon
surface form: Hunsdon, Hertfordshire
placeOfBurial Tower Hill, London
surface form: All Hallows-by-the-Tower, London
placeOfDeath Tower of London
positionHeld Knight of the Garter
Lieutenant General of the King on Sea and Land
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Kenninghall, Norfolk
Court of Henry VIII
surface form: court of Henry VIII
sexOrGender male
spouse Frances de Vere

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English Renaissance hasNotableFigure Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
House of Howard notableMember Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Marshal of England positionHeldBy Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Howard family notableMember Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta influenced Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Petrarchan sonnet tradition adoptedBy Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Howard hasNotableBearer Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Thomas Wyatt influenced Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk child Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey