Sir Thomas BOLEYN

Male Abt 1487 - 1539  (52 years)


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  • Name Thomas BOLEYN  [1, 2
    • With his father, he was in arms against the cornish rebels at Blackheath in June 1497. He was Knight of the Body to King Henry VIII, and by 1512 was rapidly rising in royal favour. He was Ambassador to the Emperor Maximilian in the Low Countries, P.C. 1518, Ambassador to France January 1518/9, appointed to be present at the Field of Cloth of Gold, Comptroller of the Household 1520, and Treasurer thereof, 1522-25. His acquisition of numerous Stewardships and Keeperships and gradually of high honours marks the progress of the favour which his daughters Mary and Anne in turn, found in the eyes of King Henry VIII. He was creaed Viscount Rachford on 18 June 1525, Earl of Wiltshire in England and Earl of Ormond in Ireland on 8 Dec 1529. He was present at the baptism of his grand-daughter Princess Elizabeth on 10 Sep 1533. His wife died at the Abbot of Reading's place, beside Baynard's Castle, on 3 Apr 1538, and was buried in the Howard aisle in Lambeth Church. He was still at Court in 1538 but had lost most of his influence. Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, died aged sixty-one at Hever on 12 Mar 1538/9, and was buried there. [1]
    Prefix Sir 
    Birth Abt 1487  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Fact Knight of Garter Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Fact 1 Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death 12 Mar 1538/9  [2
    Person ID I72930  Main Tree
    Last Modified 17 Apr 2018 

    Father Sir William BOLEYN, Knt.   d. 1505 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Margaret BUTLER,   b. Abt 1465   d. Between 30 Sep 1539and 20 Mar 1539/40 (Age 75 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 1485  [1, 2
    Family ID F32926  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth HOWARD   d. 3 Apr 1538 
    Marriage Bef 1506  [1, 2
    Children 
    +1. Anne BOLEYN,   b. Abt 1507   d. 19 May 1536, Beheaded on Tower Green for alleged adultery Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years)  [Birth]
    +2. Mary BOLEYN  [Birth]
    Family ID F29522  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Apr 2018 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.).

    2. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.