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1541Dec, 10

Francis Dereham

Francis Dereham, English courtier (b. c. 1513)
Francis Dereham (c. 1506/09 – executed (1541-12-10)10 December 1541) was a Tudor courtier whose involvement with Henry VIII's fifth Queen, Catherine Howard, in her youth, was a principal cause of the Queen's execution, as well as his own.

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