Claire | February 4, 2014
On this day in 1520, Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn, married William Carey, an Esquire of the Body and a relative and close friend of Henry VIII, in the Chapel Royal at Greenwich. The King attended the wedding. Carey was descended from Edward III, and his maternal grandmother was cousin to Henry VIII’s paternal […]
Category: Boleyn Myth, Mary Boleyn, The Boleyns |
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Tags: Boleyn family, Mary Boleyn, the Boleyns, William Carey
Claire | September 20, 2013
Those of you on The Anne Boleyn Files list of email subscribers will already know this piece of news, but I wanted to let everyone know – my next book, The Anne Boleyn Collection II, will be released on Amazon (worldwide) next week! If you’ve noticed that I’ve been a bit quieter than usual – […]
Category: Anne Boleyn General, Anne Boleyn Myths, Boleyn Myth, Books, George Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, The Boleyns, Thomas Boleyn |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn books, Claire Ridgway, The Anne Boleyn Collection, The Anne Boleyn Collection II, the Boleyns, Tudor books
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 |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn Heydon, Anne Heydon, Boleyn family, Boleyns, the Boleyns
Claire | June 28, 2013
Thank you so much to author and historian Elizabeth Norton for writing this guest post for us… It is often assumed that Anne Boleyn was named after her great aunt, Anne St Leger, the sister of her grandmother, Margaret Butler. Anne was given an important Boleyn family name, however, and her great-grandmother, the earliest recorded […]
Category: Anne Boleyn General, Background, The Boleyns |
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Tags: Anne Hoo, Boleyn family, Elizabeth Norton, Geoffrey Boleyn, the Boleyns
Claire | April 5, 2013
On this day in 1531, Richard Roose (or Rouse), Bishop John Fisher’s cook, was boiled to death after confessing to poisoning the soup (or porridge) that was served to the Bishop and his guests. Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester, survived, but some of his guests, who’d eaten more of the soup, died. People were quick […]
Category: Anne Boleyn Myths, The Tudors, Tudor Characters |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, Bishop Fisher, poisoning, Richard Roose, Richard Rouse, the Boleyns
Claire | February 19, 2013
Let me tell you a story… Mary Boleyn was a classic English rose, taking after her mother’s side of the family, whose innocence was wrecked by her father and sister. Not only was she used and abused by the French king, Francis I, and his cronies, she was pimped out to the English king and […]
Category: Boleyn Myth, Mary Boleyn, Myths and Legends, The Boleyns |
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Tags: Mary Boleyn, the Boleyns
Claire | February 8, 2013
Genealogists, historians and researchers have been discussing Anne Boleyn’s roots for centuries and today there still does not seem to be a complete agreement over the origins of the Boleyns. I am no genealogy expert, but I’ve been researching the Boleyns for years now and this article is a presentation of my findings and a […]
Category: Anne Boleyn General, Background, Boleyn Myth, The Boleyns |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn's family tree, Anne Boleyn's roots, Boulogne, family, family tree, genealogy, the Boleyns
Claire | May 24, 2012
Today we have a guest post from Clare Cherry looking at the two families affected by the events of April and May 1536 and how they are viewed by people today. Thanks, Clare! The Boleyns and the Seymours The Boleyns came from humble beginnings. They were social climbers and upstarts who used their daughters to […]
Category: George Boleyn, Six Wives, The Boleyns, Thomas Boleyn |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, Edward Seymour, George Boleyn, Jane Seymour, John Seymour, the Boleyns, the Seymours, Thomas Boleyn, Thomas Seymour