See also
| Husband: | Thomas Boleyn - Earl of Wiltshire, Earl of Ormond [Ireland] and Viscount Rochford ( - ) | |
| Wife: | Elizabeth Howard ( - ) | |
| Children: | Anne Boleyn - 2nd wife of Henry VIII ( -1536) | |
| Mary Boleyn ( -1543) | ||
| Name: | Thomas Boleyn - Earl of Wiltshire, Earl of Ormond [Ireland] and Viscount Rochford | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Title | Earl of Wiltshire, Earl of Ormond [Ireland] and Viscount Rochford1 | |
| Name: | Elizabeth Howard | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Thomas Howard (1443-1524) | |
| Mother: | Elizabeth Tylney ( -1497) | |
Anne Boleyn - 2nd wife of Henry VIII
Spouse: Henry Tudor - King Henry VIII
| Name: | Anne Boleyn - 2nd wife of Henry VIII | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Henry Tudor - King Henry VIII (1491-1547) | |
| Children: | Elizabeth Tudor - Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) | |
| Note: | Anne Boleyn (/ˈbʊlɪn/, /bəˈlɪn/ or /bʊˈlɪn/)[3][4] (c. 1501[1] – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII, and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right.[5] Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation. Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, and was educated in the Netherlands and France, largely as a maid of honour to Claude of France. She returned to England in early 1522, to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond; the marriage plans were broken up by Cardinal Wolsey, and instead she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's wife, Catherine of Aragon. Early in 1523 Anne was secretly betrothed to Henry Percy, son of the 5th Earl of Northumberland. In January 1524, Cardinal Wolsey broke the betrothal, Anne was sent back home to Hever Castle, and Percy was married to Lady Mary Talbot, to whom he had been betrothed since adolescence. In February/March 1526, Henry VIII began his pursuit of Anne. She resisted his attempts to seduce her, refusing to become his mistress – which her sister Mary had been. It soon became the one absorbing object of Henry's desires to annul his marriage to Queen Catherine so he would be free to marry Anne. When it became clear that Pope Clement VII would not annul the marriage, the breaking of the power of the Catholic Church in England began. In 1532, Henry granted Anne the Marquessate of Pembroke. Henry and Anne married on 25 January 1533. On 23 May 1533, Thomas Cranmer declared Henry and Catherine's marriage null and void; five days later, he declared Henry and Anne's marriage valid. Shortly afterwards, the Pope decreed sentences of excommunication against Henry and Cranmer. As a result of this marriage and these excommunications, the first break between the Church of England and Rome took place and the Church of England was brought under the King's control. Anne was crowned Queen of England on 1 June 1533. On 7 September, she gave birth to the future Queen Elizabeth I. Henry was disappointed to have a daughter rather than a son but hoped a son would follow and professed to love Elizabeth. Anne subsequently had three miscarriages, and by March 1536, Henry was courting Jane Seymour. Henry had Anne investigated for high treason in April 1536. On 2 May she was arrested and sent to the Tower of London, where she was tried before a jury of peers – which included Henry Percy, her former betrothed, and her own uncle, Thomas Howard – and found guilty on 15 May. She was beheaded four days later. Modern historians view the charges against her, which included adultery, incest, and witchcraft, as unconvincing. Following the coronation of her daughter Elizabeth as queen, Anne was venerated as a martyr and heroine of the English Reformation, particularly through the works of John Foxe.[6] Over the centuries, she has inspired or been mentioned in numerous artistic and cultural works. As a result, she has retained her hold on the popular imagination. Anne has been called "the most influential and important queen consort England has ever had",[7] since she provided the occasion for Henry VIII to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and declare his independence from Rome. |
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| Title (1) | frm 1 Sep 1532 | Marchioness of Pembroke2 |
| Title (2) | frm 1 Jun 1533 | Queen Consort2 |
| Sent to the Tower of London | 2 May 15362 | |
| Tried | 15 May 1536 | Tower of London2 |
| Death | 19 May 1536 | Tower Green, London2 |
| Burial | St Peter's in the Tower3 | |
Spouse: Henry Tudor - King Henry VIII
| Name: | Mary Boleyn | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse 1: | William Carey ( -1528) | |
| Spouse 2: | Henry Tudor - King Henry VIII (1491-1547) | |
| Spouse 3: | William Stafford ( -1556) | |
| Children: | Henry Carey ( -1596) | |
| Catherine Carey (c. 1524- ) | ||
| Death | 19 Jul 15434 | |
| 1 | Vicary Gibbs (ed.) and others, "The Complete Peerage" (13 volumes (in 14 parts). London: The St Catherine Press Ltd. 1910-1959 Volume 14 (addenda and corrigenda). Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd. 1998. Microprint edition of volumes 1-13. Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. First published 1982; reprinted 2000.). Volume 10, page 403. |
| 2 | Ibid. Volume 10, page 404. |
| 3 | Ibid. Volume 10, pages 404, 405. |
| 4 | Anthony Hoskins, "Mary Boleyn's Carey children - offspring of King Henry VIII?" (Genealogists' Magazine (London), volume 25, number 9, pages 345-352 (March 1997)). 346. |