200px|right|thumb|Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
'''Earl of Suffolk''' is a title that has been created four times in the Duke of Suffolk (1448 creation). The fourth creation came in Lord Thomas Howard was the second son of summoned to Parliament in right of his mother as '''Baron Howard de Walden''', and in 1603 he was further honoured when he was created '''Earl of Suffolk'''. His second son the Hon. Thomas Howard was created Earl of Berkshire in 1626. 

Lord Suffolk was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. He had already in 1610 been summoned to the Cambridgeshire. Lord Suffolk had no sons and on his death in 1689 the barony of Howard de Walden fell into Scipio Africanus. The Earl was childless and on his early death in 1722 the barony of Chesterford and earldom of Bindon became extinct.

He was succeeded in the earldom of Suffolk by his uncle, the eighth Earl. He died unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother, the ninth Earl. His wife King George II. On Lord Suffolk's death the titles passed to his son, the tenth Earl. He represented Bere Alston in the House of Commons. He was childless and on his death the line of the eldest son of the first Earl failed. The earldom was inherited by the late Earl's third cousin, the fourth Earl of Berkshire, who became the eleventh Earl of Suffolk as well (see the Castle Rising, Malmesbury and St Michael's. On his death in 1783 the line of the fourth son of the first Earl of Berkshire failed.   

The late Earl was succeeded by his third cousin, the fifteenth Earl. He was the great-grandson of Colonel the Hon. Philip Howard, seventh son of the first Earl of Berkshire. Lord Suffolk and Berkshire was a General in the Army. On his death the titles passed to his son, the sixteenth Earl. He represented Arundel in the House of Commons. His son, the seventeenth Earl, sat as Whig Member of Parliament for Malmesbury. When he died the titles passed to his son, the eighteenth Earl. He represented Malmesbury in Parliament as a Liberal. He was succeeded by his son, the nineteenth Earl. He was killed in action in the First World War. His eldest son, the twentieth Earl, was a bomb disposal expert. He was killed in 1941 while trying to defuse an unexploded bomb and was posthumously awarded the George Cross. As of 2007 the titles are held by his eldest son, the twenty-first Earl, who succeeded on his father's death in 1941.

The Hon. Edward Howard, younger son of the first Earl of Suffolk, was created Baron Howard of Escrick in 1628.

The family seat is Malmesbury, Wiltshire.

==Earls of (Norfolk and) Suffolk, First Creation==
*Ralph the Staller, 1st Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk (c. 1011-1068)
*Ralph de Guader, 2nd Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk (c. 1040-c. 1096) (forfeit 1074)

==Earls of Suffolk, Second Creation (1337)==
*Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk (1298-1369)
*William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1330-1382)

'''サフォーク伯'''(''Earl of Suffolk'') はハワード・ドゥ・ワーデン男爵トマス・ハワードの時の事である。これまでに何度か公爵位も叙爵されている。

現在のサフォーク伯の従属称号は以下のとおり。
* バークシャー伯 (1626年 創設)
* アンドーバー子爵 (1622年 創設)
* ハワード・オブ・チャールトン男爵 (1622年 創設)
* ハワード・ドゥ・ウォールデン男爵 (1597年 創設・1689年 分離)
上記の称号はいずれもイングランド貴族(Peerage of England)に属している。後継者が使用する儀礼称号はアンドーバー子爵。

伯爵家の現在の居住地はウィルトシャー州マームズブリー近くのチャールトンハウスである。

== サフォーク伯 第1期 (1337年) ==
* ロバート・ドゥ・アフォード (初代サフォーク伯) (1298年-1369年)
* ウィリアム・ドゥ・アフォード (第2代サフォーク伯) (1330年-1382年)

== サフォーク伯 第2期 (1385年)==
*マイケル・ドゥ・ラ・ポール (初代サフォーク伯) (1330年-1389年) (1388年 剥奪)
*マイケル・ドゥ・ラ・ポール (第2代サフォーク伯) (1367年-1415年) (1398年 復帰, 1399年 剥奪, 1399年 復帰)
*マイケル・ドゥ・ラ・ポール (第3代サフォーク伯) (1394年-1415年)
*ウィリアム・ドゥ・ラ・ポール (第4代サフォーク伯) (1396年-1450年) (1444年に侯爵に、1448年に公爵に)

== サフォーク公 第1期 (1448年)==
*ウィリアム・ドゥ・ラ・ポール (初代サフォーク公) (第4代サフォーク伯) (1396年-1450年) (1450年 剥奪)
*ジョン・ドゥ・ラ・ポール (第2代サフォーク公) (第5代サフォーク伯) (1442年-1492年) (1463年 復帰)
*エドムンド・ドゥ・ラ・ポール (第3代サフォーク公) (第6代サフォーク伯) (1472年-1513年) (1493年 公爵領明け渡し。1504年 公爵位剥奪)