Claire | September 2, 2014
In today’s part of my series on Anne Boleyn’s life, I’m going to examine the negotiations which aimed to marry Anne Boleyn off to James Butler, son of Sir Piers Butler, and to settle the dispute over the title of Earl of Ormond. This article is based on a chapter of my book The Anne […]
Category: Anne Boleyn's Life series, Early Life |
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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
