Agnes Howard (née Tilney) (c. 1477 – May 1545) was the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. Two of King Henry VIII's Queens were her step-granddaughters, Anne Boleyn, and Katherine Howard. After her mother's death, Katherine Howard was in the Dowager Duchess's care during her youth, and as a result of the Duchess's lax guardianship, committed sexual indiscretions while in the Duchess's household which led to her execution as Queen. Agnes' brother, Sir Philip Tilney of Shelley (d.1533), was the paternal grandfather of Edmund Tilney (1535/6–1610), Master of the Revels to Queen Elizabeth and King James. Edmund Tilney's mother, Malyn, was implicated in the scandal surrounding Queen Katherine's downfall.
Agnes died in 1545 and was buried at Thetford Abbey on the 31st of May. On 13 October her remains were removed to Lambeth Church in Surrrey as she had directed in her will.[1]
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Test. Ebor. 3, ed. Raine, Surtees Soc. 45 (1864), p. 360 (1497 Nov 8).
Also license to marry in the chapel at Sheriff Hutton Castle, issued by Archbishop Thomas Rotherham.