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Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, was the highest-ranking English nobleman during the early reign of Elizabeth I. Although outwardly Protestant, he became involved in plans to marry Mary, Queen of Scots, and in Catholic conspiracies against Elizabeth’s government.

Norfolk was imprisoned after the Northern Rebellion and executed for treason in 1572 following the Ridolfi Plot. His fall demonstrated the danger posed by dynastic ambition and religious politics in Elizabethan England.

Sam Burnell’s A Queen’s Conspirator uses Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, in his early Elizabethan role as commander of English forces sent north during the Scottish Reformation. After Jack Fitzwarren offends Norfolk, the duke sends him into the intervention around besieged Leith, tying the fictional soldier’s fate to England’s increasingly open support for the Lords of the Congregation. Norfolk represents the military face of a policy that Cecil and Elizabeth also try to conduct through secrecy and deniability.

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Richard Fitzwarren Tudor Historical in Order

by Sam Burnell 11 books 4.3(10,803)

The Richard Fitzwarren Tudor Historical series, also known as Mercenary for Hire or the Tudor Mystery Trials, follows the fictional brothers Richard and Jack Fitzwarren through the violent political and religious changes of mid-sixteenth-century England. The sequence begins with the Seymour scandal surrounding the young Princess Elizabeth, moves…

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