Bubba, Wrenn, Bubba wrote: >I always thought Matthew Howard was the son of a Margaret Howard who married an Arundel and migrated to the US after Henry VIII was killing the Howards. > Thomas Arundel, knt. K.B., of Wardout Castle, co. Wilts, and of Shaftsbury, Dorset, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, Knight of the Shire for Dorsetshire, b. abt. 1502. He was married, with settlement dated 20 Nov. 1530, to Margaret Howard, daughter and co-heiress of Lord Edmund Howard (descendant of King Edward I), by Joyce, daughter of Richard Culpeter, of Oxenhoath in West Peckham, Kent (descendant of King Edward I). They had two sons and two or three daughters. ...was beheaded on 26 Feb. 1552, his widow died on 10 Oct. 1571. [Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edition, NEHGS, 1999, pp. 65-6] Jim