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Boleyn family

  • Anne BoleynAnne Boleyn laughed on the scaffold, joking that she had a little neck.
  • Lady Margaret ButlerFrom around 1519, Lady Margaret Boleyn was declared unable to manage her own estates.
  • Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of WiltshireElizabeth Boleyn outlived two of her children by barely two years. Both were executed in one week of May 1536.
  • Boleyn familyAnne Boleyn and her brother George were both executed in 1536. Their family's line still lived on.
  • George Boleyn, Viscount RochfordGeorge Boleyn's execution crowd fell almost completely silent to hear his scaffold speech.
  • Mary BoleynMary Boleyn married a penniless soldier, and her sister the queen disowned her. She was banished from court in 1534.
  • Henry Carey, 1st Baron HunsdonHenry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, was dying when Queen Elizabeth I offered to make him Earl of Wiltshire. He refused, and his reply carried a sting: "Madam, as you did not count me worthy of this honour in life, then I shall account myself…
  • Geoffrey BoleynHever Castle came to the Boleyn family in 1462 when Geoffrey Boleyn bought its manor.
  • William BoleynHenry VII made Sir William Boleyn responsible for the beacons that warned of attack on English shores.
  • Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of WiltshireWas Thomas Boleyn a ruthless father who used his daughters, or a diplomat who had already earned his rise?

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