Jane Howard, Countess of Westmorland

Jane Neville (née Howard), Countess of Westmorland (1533/37 – buried 30 June 1593), was an English noblewoman who had a role in the Northern Rebellion in 1569 against Elizabeth I of England.

[1] Jane was born between 1533 and 1537,[2] though it is likely towards the latter end, otherwise she would be nine years older than her future husband, being the first or second of five children of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and his wife Lady Frances de Vere.

Her grandparents on her father's side were Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth Stafford.

In 1548 his children were placed in the care of their aunt, Mary FitzRoy, who appointed the martyrologist, John Foxe, as their tutor.

About 1563/4 Jane Howard married Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, who had succeeded to the earldom after his father's death on 10 February 1564.

However Westmorland was given refuge by Lord Kerr at Ferniehirst Castle in Roxburghshire, and eventually escaped by sea in 1570 to the Spanish Netherlands, where he remained an exile until his death.

On 25 June 1604 two of his daughters, Katherine and Anne, were granted pensions of 200 marks a year by King James.