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Definition of Catherine Howard
1. Noun. Queen of England as the fifth wife of Henry VIII who was accused of adultery and executed (1520-1542).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catherine Howard
Literary usage of Catherine Howard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"... of Cleves—His marriage with Catherine Howard—State of Affairs in Scotland—Discovery
of the queen's dissolute life—A parliament—Ecclesiastical affairs. ..."
2. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1824)
"*»*Our principal information of the crimes and death of Queen Catherine Howard
is derived from two sources only; from a Letter which the Lords of the ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"So Francis Dereham and Catherine Howard called each ... atad Catherine Howard,
which the bishop apparently did his best to encourage. No one, of course, ..."
4. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1853)
"When Queen Catherine Howard, who certainly had been guilty of incontinence before
her marriage, but against whom there was no sufficient evidence of such ..."
5. A Student's History of England, from the Earliest Times to 1885: From the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1891)
"Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. 1540—1543.—In 1540 Henry married a fifth
wife, Catherine Howard. Norfolk, who was her uncle, gained the upper hand at ..."