page_title: Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
section_title: First wife
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk / Marriages and issue / First wife
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Elizabeth Leyburne, Duchess of Norfolk
context_page_description: Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, KG was an English nobleman and politician. Although from a family with strong Catholic leanings, he was raised a Protestant. He was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I through her maternal grandmother, and held many high offices during her reign.
  Norfolk was the son of the poet, soldier and politician Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. He commissioned Thomas Tallis, probably in 1567, to compose his renowned motet in forty voice-parts, Spem in alium.
  He was executed for his role in the Ridolfi Plot.
context_section_description: Thomas Howard's first wife was Mary FitzAlan, daughter of Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel.  She died after a year of marriage, having given birth to a son, who, on the death of his grandfather, inherited the Arundel title and estates:
  Philip Howard (28 June 1557 – 19 October 1595), who  became the 20th Earl of Arundel.
  It is from this marriage that modern Dukes of Norfolk derive their surname of 'FitzAlan-Howard' and their seat in Arundel. Though her funeral effigy is found at Framlingham church, Mary FitzAlan was not buried there but first at the church of St. Clement Danes, Temple Bar and then, under the direction of her grandson's will, at Arundel.
caption: Portrait of Elizabeth Leyburne attributed to Hans Eworth, c. 1560
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