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[[Category:House of Boleyn]][[Category: Blickling Hall, Blickling]] [[Category: Prisoners of the Tower of London]] [[Category:This Day In History May 02]] [[Category:This Day In History May 17]] [[Category:This Day In History May 19]] ---- ==Biography== : Anne "Nan" Boleyn was the second wife of Henry VIII, and mother of Elizabeth I. [[image: Boleyn-1.png]] : An unpopular queen, she was eventually destroyed by Cromwell in a political showdown. Framed for treason, she was conveniently charged with incest and adultery that continues to fuel the stuff of tabloids. Whether Henry VIII gave the order or tacitly agreed to her enemies' plan, she was still beheaded in [[:Category:This Day In History May 19|1536]]. Thereafter, her only daughter Elizabeth I was deemed illegitimate. : Anne was a notoriously loud nag. She even threatened to have Cromwell (once an ally) executed ... which led to his final and fatal blow by rounding up a posse to make sure she'd never get him first. But suffice it to say... in her own time as queen consort, she was seriously hated for her politics and the crushing of cultural religious beliefs that became codified in brutal laws. ... Not to mention the fact that Katherine was adored from go. : It was only after Anne's daughter ascended the throne that chroniclers worked to rehabilitate her reputation. And to Elizabeth's credit, she worked hard to keep the peace between Catholics and Protestants. In any case, Anne Boleyn is the force behind the English move to follow a Protestant faith and destroy the ancient Abbeys. If it wasn't for her, it's hard to say if the English Reformation would have happened at all.By [[Ogle-460|Bree Ogle]]. Writing based on a number of sources researched throughout the years. Earlier historians considered 1507 to be the accepted birth date, but in 1981 the art historian Hugh Paget successfully demonstrated that a letter Anne had written in 1513 from Brussels when she was a maid of honour in that court, a position which was only open to a 12- or 13-year-old, was not the hand of a six-year-old. Ives – Life & Death of Anne Boleyn, as referenced by Wikipedia Article ===Sources=== * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn: Fraser, A. (1993). The Wives of Henry VIII. NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Print. : Weir, A. (n.d.). The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn. NY: Ballantine Books. Epub. ===Footnotes=== }

Birth	1507	Hever, Kent, England
Death	19 May 1536	London, City of London, Greater London, England
Burial		London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England

Father	Thomas Boleyn "Earl of Wiltshire" (1477 - 1539)
Mother	Elizabeth Howard (1480 - 1538)
Sibling	Thomas Boleyn (1499 - 1520)
Sibling	George Boleyn "Viscount Rochford" (1502 - 1536)
Sibling	Mary Boleyn (1510 - 1543)