Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey


Frances Howard,, Countess of Surrey was the daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell. She married firstly, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and his wife Elizabeth Stafford, by whom she had two sons and three daughters:
Late in 1546, while Frances was expecting her fifth child, her husband was accused of treason and he was subsequently executed in January 1547.
She married secondly Thomas Staynings, by whom she had one child.