Anne BOLEYN

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Anne Boleyn
(1502-1536)
Born: 1502 at Blickling Hall, Norfolk
Queen of England
Died: 19th May 1536 at Tower Green, London

Anne Boleyn, the second Queen of Henry VIII, was the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, afterwards Earl of Wiltshire, and Lady Elizabeth Howard. Anne was thus the maternal niece of Henry's courtier-statesman, the Duke of Norfolk. She spent some years at the French Court, before 1522, when she first seems to have attracted the notice of King Henry. Her elder sister, Mary, was, for a short time, the King's mistress at about that date. Anne was sought in marriage by the heir of the Percys and was perhaps privately contracted to him. By 1525, however, the King was secretly courting her.

At what date Anne actually became the King Henry?s mistress we do not know for certain. From 1527 onwards, it was publicly known that Henry was seeking a divorce from Catherine of Aragon and it soon became evident that, in spite of Wolsey's remonstrances, he intended Anne to take her place as Queen. She travelled about with him and had magnificent apartments fitted up for her wherever he was until her marriage with him, which took place privately some time on 25th January 1533. We do not even know precisely where the marriage took place - either Whitehall or Westminster - or by whom it was celebrated. But it was made public at Easter and Cranmer, as Archbishop, held an inquiry into its validity, in favour of which he pronounced. Anne was crowned with great magnificence on Whit Sunday.

The hatred of all but the most servile courtiers for Anne and for all the Boleyns was open and avowed. Her only surviving child, afterwards Queen Elizabeth I, was born in the September. But Henry was already tired of Anne and it is pretty clear that she was but a vulgar coquette of neither wit nor accomplishments and, strange to say, without any extraordinary beauty. As to her chastity, both before and after her marriage, it is difficult to pronounce with certainty. Acts of adultery, and even of incest, were alleged against her at her trial, which took place before a court of peers, with her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, as president, in May 1536; but, though sentence was unanimously given against her, it could hardly be called a fair trial, as some of her alleged accomplices had been pre?viously convicted and put to death. She was beheaded on Tower Hill on 19th May 1536.

Anne married on 25 Jan 1532-1533 in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sir Thomas Boleyn, KG, Earl of Wiltshire, b. c 1477, d. Hever, Kent 12 or 13 Mar 1538/9; m. c1500 Elizabeth Howard, d. 3 Apr 1538, buried 7 Apr 1538, daughter of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. [Magna Charta Sureties]

Note: Both MCS & AR give c 1477 as his birthdate. Both give 1465 as his mother's birthdate & 1485 as her marriage (MCS says "bef 1485"). Thus he was born when she was 12 years old and 8 years before her marriage! I have serious doubts about his birth year.

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Then there was the Boleyn bombshell. In 1529 Henry created Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Ormond, after making Red Piers, who had been governor of Ireland, Earl of Ossory. But ten years later, after the Boleyns had fallen from favour, Piers emerged from the interlude with two Earldoms and died the next year in 1539. [Butler Family History]

Thomas married Elizabeth HOWARD about 1500. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas HOWARD, 2nd Duke Of Norfolk and Elizabeth TYLNEY, Countess Of Surrey) was born about 1485 in Ashwellthorpe, Depwade, Norfolk, England; died on 3 Apr 1538; was buried on 7 Apr 1538. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth Howard; married c 1500 Thomas Boleyn, 1st and last Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire. [Burke's Peerage]

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Elizabeth Howard, d. 3 Apr 1538; m. c 1500 Sir Thomas Boleyn, KG, b. c 1477, d. 12 or 13 Mar 1538/9, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Sir William Boleyn, KB, of Blicking, Norfolk; m. Margaret Butler, daughter of Sir Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, by his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Hankeford. [Magna Charta Sureties]

William married Margaret BUTLER before 1485. Margaret was born before 1465 in Kilkenny Castle, Kildare, Leinster, Ireland; died before 20 Mar 1539-1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Margaret Butler, daughter & coheir by 1st wife, b. c 1465, d. between 30 Sep 1539 and 20 Mar 1539/40; m. before 1485 Sir William Boleyn, KB, d. 1505, of Blicking, Norfolk. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Margaret Butler, daughter by (1), b. 1465 (age 20 in 1485), d. 1539; m. 1485, Sir William Boleyn. [Ancestral Roots]

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Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, KG (1483-85 and 1491), KB (Jan 1477/8), PC (1483-85, 1501); born 1443/4; educ. Ipswich and Thetford GSs; yeoman in Edward IV's household from c1466; fought at Battle of Barnet 14 April 1471, Esq. of the Body to Edward IV; Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 1476; MP Norfolk 1478; created 28 June 1483 Earl of Surrey but attainted (as was his father posthumously) by Henry VII's 1st Parliament 1485; attainder reversed 1489 as regards Earldom only; Steward of Household 1483-84; Warden of East and Middle Marches; Lord High Treasurer 1501-22; created 10 July 1510 Earl Marshal of England for life; as Lt General in North won the Battle of Flodden 9 Sep 1513 over the Scots, for which he was rewarded by being created 1 Feb 1513/4 Duke of Norfolk with precedence of any previous Duke of Norfolk (ie. including that of 1397)--effectively therefore, a restoration of his father's principal title--meanwhile making over the Earldom of Surrey to his eldest son for the latter's life; married 1st 30 April 1472 Elizabeth (died 4 April 1497), widow of Sir Humphrey Bourchier and daughter of Sir Frederick Tylney, and had [Thomas - 3rd Duke, Edward, Elizabeth, Marcella/Muriel], with 5 other sons and 2 other daughters. The 2nd Duke married 2nd 8 Nov 1497 Agnes (died May 1545), daughter of Hugh Tilney and sister and heiress of Sir Philip Tilney, of Skirbeck and Boston, Lincs, and had [William-1st Baron Howard of Effingham, Thomas, Elizabeth, Katherine, Anne], along with another son and daughter. The 2nd Duke died 21 May 1524. [Burke's Peerage]

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Sir Thomas Howard, son by the first wife, b. 1443, d. 21 May 1524, Earl of Surrey, Earl Marshal and Duke of Norfolk; m. (1) 30 Apr 1472, Elizabeth, d. 4 Apr 1497, daughter of Sir Frederick Tylney of Ashwellthorpe, widow of Sir Humphrey Bourchier; m. (2) Agnes, daughter of Hugh Tylney, buried 31 May 1545. [Magna Charta Sureties, Line 63-10]

Thomas married Elizabeth TYLNEY, Countess Of Surrey on 30 Apr 1472 in 2ND Husband 1St Wife. Elizabeth (daughter of Frederick TYLNEY, Of Boston & Ashwellthorpe, Sir and Elizabeth CHENEY) was born before 1448 in Ashwellthorpe, Depwade, Norfolk, England; died on 4 Apr 1497 in Abbot Of Readings Place, Baynards Castle, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth (died 4 April 1497), widow of Sir Humphrey Bourchier and daughter of Sir Frederick Tylney. [Burke's Peerage]

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Elizabeth Tylney, died 4 April 1497, daughter of Sir Frederick Tylney, of Boston, co Lincoln. [Magna Charta Sureties, Line 18-11]

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Elizabeth, d. 4 Apr 1497, daughter of Sir Frederick Tylney of Ashwellthorpe, widow of Sir Humphrey Bourchier. [Magna Charta Sureties, Line 63-10]

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Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London 1457, d. 1463. [Magna Charta Sureties]

Geoffrey married Anne HOO in 1425. Anne (daughter of Sir Thomas 1St Baron HOO, Of Luton Hoo and Elizabeth De WYCHINGHAM) was born before 1414 in Blickling, Aylsham, Norfolk, England; died in 1484. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Anne Hoo, age 30+ in 1454/5; m. Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London 1457, d. 1463. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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His [Thomas Hoo's]. . . daughters and coheirs were, by the said Elizabeth [Wychingham], Anne, aged 30 and more at her father's death. . . (1) Anne married, before her father's death, Geoffrey Boleyn, citizen and alderman of London, afterwards knighted, being Lord Mayor of London. She was great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, 2nd Queen Consort of Henry VIII. [Complete Peerage VI:561-5, transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]