Thomas BOLEYN, Kg, Earl Wiltshire & Ormond, Sir

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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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Mary Boleyn, d. 19 July 1543 (sister of Queen Anne, and past mistress of Henry VIII). [Magna Charta Sureties]

Mary Boleyn, sister of Queen Anne; m. William Cary. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Henry Carey, first cousin through his mother (sister of Anne Boleyn) of Elizabeth I, was created by her Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon in Jan 1558/9 shortly after her accession. He had been MP for Buckingham in Edward VI's and Mary I's reigns and was made a Privy Counsellor and Knight of the Garter a little later in Elizabeth's. His mother had been Henry VIII's mistress before the King fell in love with Anne Boleyn, indeed at the time Henry Carey was conceived. Accordingly it has been suffested that he was really Henry VIII's son. If one assumes that Henry Carey's actual father was his official one, there is a connection with the Carys Viscounts Falkland through Henry's uncle Sir John Cary, grandfather of the 1st Viscount. [Burke's Peerage, p. 51]

Mary married on 31 Jan 1520-1521 in 1st Husband 1St Wife. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married before Feb 1522-1523 in No Marriage. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]