Lady Elizabeth Howard, later Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond (c. 1480 – 3 April 1538) was the eldest of the two daughters Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk had by his first wife Elizabeth Tilney. She was also a direct descendant of King Edward I. She is most famous for having been the mother of Anne Boleyn, who became the second wife of King Henry VIII of England. As such, she was also the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabe...
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Lady Elizabeth Howard, later Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond (c. 1480 – 3 April 1538) was the eldest of the two daughters Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk had by his first wife Elizabeth Tilney. She was also a direct descendant of King Edward I. She is most famous for having been the mother of Anne Boleyn, who became the second wife of King Henry VIII of England. As such, she was also the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth I.
Little is known of her but a rough chronology of her life can be pieced together through the comments and mythologies of her contemporaries.
Her family managed to survive the fall of their patron, King Richard III who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 and supplanted by the victor King Henry VII. Elizabeth successfully joined the royal court as a young girl. It was while she was at court, that she wed Thomas Boleyn, an ambitious young courtier, sometime before 1500, probably in 1498. According to Thomas, his wife was pregnant...
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