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Boleyn family
- Anne BoleynAnne Boleyn went to the scaffold on the 19th of May 1536 wearing a red petticoat beneath a loose grey gown of damask trimmed in fur, and she laughed.
- Lady Margaret ButlerLady Margaret Boleyn was born around 1454 at Kilkenny Castle in County Kilkenny, Ireland, the daughter of Thomas Butler, the 7th Earl of Ormond.
- Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of WiltshireElizabeth Boleyn entered the world around 1480 within the wealthy Howard family. Her father was Sir Thomas Howard, who later became the 2nd Duke of Norfolk.
- Boleyn familyJohn Boleyn of Salle, Norfolk first appears on the register of Walsingham Abbey. A man named Simon de Boleyne possibly purchased lands in that village of…
- George Boleyn, Viscount RochfordGeorge Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, stepped onto Tower Hill on the morning of the 17th of May 1536 to face the axe. The crowd watching was, by all accounts…
- Mary BoleynMary Boleyn spent most of her life in the shadow of her famous sister, yet her own story cuts just as deep. Born around 1499, most likely at Blickling Hall…
- Henry Carey, 1st Baron HunsdonHenry Carey entered the world on the 4th of March 1526 as the second child of William Carey and Mary Boleyn. His mother was the sister of Anne Boleyn, who…
- Geoffrey BoleynGeoffrey Boleyn was a hatter's apprentice from Norfolk who died as one of the wealthiest merchants in London, a knighted Lord Mayor who had purchased two of…
- William BoleynWilliam Boleyn was born at Blickling Hall in Norfolk in 1451, the younger son of a man who had risen from merchant to mayor.
- Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of WiltshireHe was born in about 1477 at Hever Castle in Kent. His father Sir William Boleyn had purchased Blickling Hall in Norfolk from his own father Sir Geoffrey…