Claire | November 7, 2020

In this latest edition of my Questions about Anne Boleyn series, I consider whether Anne Boleyn and her cousin, Catherine Howard, were pawns of their families and whether the Boleyns and Howards deserve to be blamed for their subsequent executions. Did Thomas and Elizabeth Boleyn, and Elizabeth’s brother, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, force […]

Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, Boleyn Myth, The Boleyns, Thomas Boleyn | 16 Comments »
Tags: Anne Bolwyn pawn, Boleyns, Catherine Howard, Howards, Mary Boleyn, Thomas Boleyn

Claire | May 23, 2017

Thank you to Clare Cherry, co-author of George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier and Diplomat for writing this guest article for us today. Over to Clare… In 1536 five members of the Boleyn family had their lives destroyed, or at the very least fundamentally damaged. Anne and George were put to death on trumped up charges […]

Category: George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, Representations of Anne Boleyn, The Boleyns | 26 Comments »
Tags: Boleyn family, Boleyns, Elizabeth Boleyn, George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, the Boleyns, Thomas Boleyn

Claire | July 23, 2013

Following in from her recent article, “The First Anne Boleyn”, historian and author Elizabeth Norton has kindly written this article on Anne Hoo’s daughter, the second Anne Boleyn… I wrote an article recently on Anne Hoo Boleyn, the first recorded Anne Boleyn. Thanks to Anne Hoo’s importance in the family, her first name became a […]

Category: Background, The Boleyns | 5 Comments »
Tags: Anne Boleyn Heydon, Anne Heydon, Boleyn family, Boleyns, the Boleyns

Claire | June 27, 2013

Just a quick post to alert you to the fact that historian Elizabeth Norton has just published an interesting article on her blog about the link between Anne Boleyn and St Thomas Becket – see Anne Boleyn and St Thomas Becket. It is not something I have mentioned here on The Anne Boleyn Files, but […]

Category: Anne Boleyn General, Background, The Boleyns | 9 Comments »
Tags: Boleyns, Butlers, Elizabeth Norton, Thomas a Beckett, Thomas Becket, Thomas Butler