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Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn (later Earl of Wiltshire), and his wife, Elizabeth Howard, and was educated in the Netherlands and France. Anne returned to England in early 1522, to marry her cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond ; the marriage plans were broken off, and instead, she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry ...
Elizabeth's parents, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Anne was executed within three years of Elizabeth's birth. Elizabeth was born at Greenwich Palace on 7 September 1533 and was named after her grandmothers, Elizabeth of York and Lady Elizabeth Howard. [6] She was the second child of Henry VIII of England born in wedlock to survive infancy.
Elizabeth travelled with Anne to view York Place after the fall of the Boleyn family's great political opponent, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey – an intrigue which had given Anne her first real taste of political power. She was crowned queen four years later. Elizabeth remained in her daughter's household throughout her time as queen consort.
The Boleyn family was a prominent English family in the gentry and aristocracy. They reached the peak of their influence during the Tudor period , when Anne Boleyn became the second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII , their daughter being the future Elizabeth I .
Lady Margaret Boleyn [2] (c. 1454 – 1539) was an Irish noblewoman, the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. She married Sir William Boleyn and through her eldest son Sir Thomas Boleyn , was the paternal grandmother of Anne Boleyn , second wife of King Henry VIII of England , and great-grandmother of Anne and Henry's ...
Mary was probably born at Blickling Hall, the family seat in Norfolk, and grew up at Hever Castle, Kent. [5] She was the daughter of a wealthy diplomat and courtier, Thomas Boleyn, later Earl of Wiltshire, by his marriage to Elizabeth Howard, the eldest daughter of Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey and future 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and his first wife Elizabeth Tilney. [4]
Catherine (c. 1524 – 15 January 1569) and Henry Carey (4 March 1526 – 23 July 1596), children of Henry's mistress Mary Boleyn, the sister of his second wife Anne Boleyn, and wife of William Carey. [12] Ethelreda Malte (born c. 1527 – c. January 1559), born to Joan Dingley, alias Dobson; her paternity was claimed by John Malte. [13]
Anne, Lady Shelton (née Boleyn; c. 1483 [1] – 8 January 1556) was a sister of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and one of the aunts of his daughter, Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII.