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4 unusual facts about Earl of Nottingham


Catherine Howard, Countess of Nottingham

In July 1563, Catherine married Charles Howard (1536–1624), later 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral of England, and first Earl of Nottingham (1597).

Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham

Daniel Finch was the son of Heneage Finch (later the first earl of Nottingham and Lord Chancellor of England) and Elizabeth Harvey, daughter of Daniel Harvey.

Hamlet Winstanley

John Finch, rector of Winwick and brother of the Earl of Nottingham, gave him access to his collection of paintings, and enabled him to study in London at the academy of painting, founded in 1711, in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk

In April 1372, custody of both Thomas and his elder brother, John, was granted to Blanche Wake, a sister of their grandmother, Joan of Lancaster.


John Dunbar, Earl of Moray

He died at York from wounds received from the Earl of Nottingham during a tournament.


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Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham

Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham (25 December 1610 – 26 April 1681) was the son of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham by his second wife, the former Margaret Stuart.

John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk

He was the younger son of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, and succeeded his elder brother Thomas as 5th Earl of Norfolk and 3rd Earl of Nottingham in 1405.

Richard Niccols

The families of the Earl of Nottingham, Sir Thomas Wroth, and James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, were his major literary patrons.