EIGHT GENERATIONS OF BOLEYN WOMEN FROM THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO
1603 The Boleyn family appeared from nowhere at the end of the
fourteenth century, moving from peasant to princess in only a few
generations. The women of the family brought about its advancement,
beginning with the heiresses Alice Bracton Boleyn, Anne Hoo Boleyn
and Margaret Butler Boleyn, who brought wealth and aristocratic
connections. Then there was Elizabeth Howard Boleyn, who was
rumoured to have been the mistress of Henry VIII, along with her
daughter Mary and niece Madge, who certainly were. Anne Boleyn
became the king's second wife and her aunts, Lady Boleyn and Lady
Shelton, helped bring her to the block. The infamous Jane Boleyn,
the last of her generation, betrayed her husband before dying on
the scaffold with Queen Catherine Howard. The next generation was
no less turbulent and Catherine Carey, the daughter of Mary Boleyn,
fled from England to avoid persecution under Mary Tudor. Her
daughter, Lettice, was locked in bitter rivalry with the greatest
Boleyn lady of all, Elizabeth I, winning the battle for the
affections of Robert Dudley but losing her position in society as a
consequence. Finally, another Catherine Carey, the Countess of
Nottingham, was so close to her cousin, the queen, that Elizabeth
died of grief following her death. The Boleyn family was the most
ambitious dynasty of the sixteenth century, rising dramatically to
prominence in the early years of a century that would end with a
Boleyn on the throne.
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