Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, though better known as the Earl of Surrey and the victor of the Battle of Flodden, was the son of John, 1st Duke of Norfolk, and Katharine Moleyns. He was, in his youth, a loyal partisan of the House of York and even acquiesced in the usurpation of King Richard III of England, for whom he fought at Bosworth and where his father fell. King Henry VII, after attainting him and keeping him for three years in the Tower, released him and restored to him his Earldom of Surrey. He, thenceforward, served the Tudors loyally till his death. He watched the Scottish border against the rebel, Perkin Warbeck, in 1497 and became, on the accession of Henry VIII, one of the leaders in the Privy Council. By sound strategy, he outmanoeuvred the King of Scots in September 1513 and, by sound tactics, overpowered the enormous Scottish army, though at a heavy cost to his own, on Flodden Field. For this service, the Dukedom of Norfolk was restored to him in the next year. He never really liked the Cardinal Wolsey, the King's Chief advisor, and resisted his power and thwarted his policies as long as he could. However, at last, Norfolk obliged to bow to the King's wishes and, as a proof of this, was compelled to preside, in his extreme old age, at the judicial murder of his friend, the Duke of Buckingham, 1521.