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Thomas BOLEYN, Kg, Earl Wiltshire & Ormond, Sir

Thomas BOLEYN, Kg, Earl Wiltshire & Ormond, Sir[1]

Male Abt 1477 - 1539  (~ 62 years)

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  • Name Thomas BOLEYN  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Suffix Kg, Earl Wiltshire & Ormond, Sir 
    Born Abt 1477  Blickling, Aylsham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    _UID F3082237ED2448AA8EA88A93C40A35E49160 
    Died 13 Mar 1539  Hever, Sevenoaks, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 7
    Person ID I13483  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 5 Feb 2012 

    Father William BOLEYN, Sir,   b. Abt 1455, Blickling, Aylsham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Oct 1505  (Age ~ 50 years) 
    Mother Margaret BUTLER,   b. Bef 1465, Kilkenny Castle, Kildare, Leinster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 20 Mar 1539-1540  (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Married Bef 1485  [8, 9
    Family ID F6895  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth HOWARD,   b. Abt 1485, Ashwellthorpe, Depwade, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Apr 1538  (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Married Abt 1500  [2, 3
    Alt. Marriage Bef 1506  [10
    Alt. Marriage 
    Children 
     1. Mary BOLEYN,   b. Abt 1504, Hever, Sevenoaks, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Jul 1543, Chilton Foliat, Hungerford, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 39 years)
     2. Anne BOLEYN,   b. Abt 1507, Blickling, Aylsham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 May 1536, Tower Of London, Middlesex, England (Beheaded) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 29 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F6896  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • 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]

  • Sources 
    1. [S579] Jim Weber.

    2. [S289] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles M o s l e y Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 26 May 2003., 2091 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 17-12, 64-11 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 120-39, 22-36 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S765] Butler Family History, 7th Edition 1991, by Lord Dunboyne, Kilkenny Castle Book Shop, 14 (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, VI:627 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, VI:627 (e) (Reliability: 3).

    8. [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 17-11 (Reliability: 3).

    9. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 120-38 (Reliability: 3).

    10. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 22-36 (Reliability: 3).