born 1443
died May 21, 1524, Framlingham, Suffolk, Eng.
English noble prominent in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII .
Son of the 1st duke of Norfolk, he was made steward of the royal household and created earl of Surrey in 1483. While fighting for Richard III , he was taken prisoner (and his father killed) in the Battle of Flodden . Norfolk later served as lord treasurer and a privy councillor, and he helped arrange the marriage of {{link=Margaret Tudor">Margaret Tudor to James IV of Scotland. In 1520 he was guardian of England during Henry VIII's absence in France.