Anne Boleyn
Noble person
1501 – 1536
Who was Anne Boleyn?
Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation. Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, and was educated in the Netherlands and France, largely as a maid of honour to Claude of France. She returned to England in early 1522, to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond; the marriage plans ended in failure and she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's wife, Catherine of Aragon.
Early in 1523 there was a secret betrothal between Anne and Henry Percy, son of the 5th Earl of Northumberland. In January 1524, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey broke the betrothal, Anne was sent back home to Hever Castle, and Percy was married to Lady Mary Talbot, to whom he had been betrothed since adolescence. In February/March 1526, Henry VIII began his pursuit of Anne. She resisted his attempts to seduce her, refusing to become his mistress – which her sister Mary had been.
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- Born
- 1501
Hever - Also known as
- สมเด็จพระราชินีแอนน์ โบลีน
- Boleyn Anna
- Anne Boleyn
- Ana Bolein
- Болейн, Анна
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Henry VIII of England
(1533/01/25 - 1536/05/17)
- Henry VIII of England
- Children
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- England
- Died
- May 19, 1536
Tower of London - Resting place
- Church of St Peter ad Vincula
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on July 23, 2013
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