Claire | August 29, 2011
I am still on the trail of the lost Boleyns, the boys Thomas and Henry thought to have died in infancy or childhood, so don’t worry, I’m like a dog with a bone! But while I was doing some research on the Boleyn family this weekend, trying to find sources for what authors write about […]
Category: Background, The Boleyns |
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Tags: Boleyn family, Elizabeth Boleyn, Henry Boleyn, Hever, the Boleyns, Thomas Boleyn the Younger
Claire | March 17, 2011
As today is St Patrick’s Day – Happy St Patrick’s Day to all our Irish visitors! – I thought it was only fitting to look at Anne Boleyn’s Irish roots. “Anne Boleyn was Irish?!”, I hear you cry! Well, no, but she was descended from a noble family’s whose family seat was in Ireland through […]
Category: Background, Early Life, The Boleyns |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, background, Boleyn family, Earl of Ormonde, James Butler, Margaret Butler, Sir Piers Butler, the Boleyns, the Butlers