Admiral's Men A theatre company, known first as Lord Howard's Men, under the patronage from 1576/7 to 1603 of Charles, Lord Howard, first Earl of Nottingham, who became Lord High Admiral in 1585. On James I's accession, they became Prince Henry's Men (1603–12), and after that the Elector Palatine's, or Palsgrave's, Men (1613–25).

They were the main rivals to Shakespeare's company, the Lord ...