Philip Howard, 1st earl of Arundel, was…
December 1583 CE
Philip Howard, 1st earl of Arundel, was the eldest son of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, executed for high treason in 1572, and of Lady Mary, daughter and heiress of Henry Fitzalan, 12th earl of Arundel.
On the death of his maternal grandfather, the 12th earl, in February 1580 he had become earl of Arundel.
His wife Anne had become a Roman Catholic in 1582 and was committed by Queen Elizabeth to the charge of Sir Thomas Shirley.
Arundel is himself suspected of disloyalty and is regarded by the discontented Roman Catholics as the center of the plots against the Queen's government and even as a possible successor.
He is with some reason in 1583 hsuspected of complicity in Throckmorton's plot and prepares to escape to Flanders, but his plans are interrupted by a visit from Elizabeth at his house in London and by her subsequent order to confine himself there.