Elizabeth (Howard) Boleyn (abt. 1480 - 1538)

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Boleyn KG — married before 1499 in Blickling, Norfolk, England

Descendants

Died 3 Apr 1538 at about age 58 in London, England

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Biography

Elizabeth Howard was the eldest of two surviving daughters of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and his first wife Elizabeth Tilney, who were married on 30 April 1472, to 1497. ^[1]

While she was a young unmarried girl, the court poet John Skelton, visiting the Howard seat of Sheriff Hutton Castle, wrote some verses - "The Garland of the Laurel" - in praise of the Howard daughters, whereupon Elizabeth Tinley had the young women present him with an embroidered garland of silk, gold and pearls. This event, taking place before the mother's death in 1497, suggests that the young Howard daughters were then of courtable age. ^[2]

At some time probably before 1500, Elizabeth Howard married Thomas Boleyn, a courtier and bureaucrat in the service of Henry VII and Henry VIII. ^[3] Their marriage had three surviving children:

Mary - m. (1) Sir William Carey (2) Sir William Stafford; d. 1543

Anne - m. Henry VIII; d. 1536

George, Viscount Rochford - m. Jane Parker; d. 1536

Elizabeth Boleyn died on 3 April 1538 at the London residence of the Abbot of Reading, near Bayard's Castle, London, and was buried on 7 April in the Howard aisle of Lambeth church. ^[3]. By that date, she had lost her two younger children. Thomas Boleyn survived until 12 March 1638/9 and was buried at his seat of Hever, Kent.

Sources

1. ↑ Cokayne, GE. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, 2nd Edition, Vol. 9 p. 614. "Norfolk". London: The St Catherine Press, 1945. FamilySearch
2. ↑ Weir, Alison. Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings, pp. 9-10. Random House Publishing Group, 2011. Weir
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Cokayne, GE. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, 2nd Edition, Vol. 10, pp. 39-140. "Ormond". London: The St Catherine Press, 1945. FamilySearch

See Also:

• "Royal Ancestry" 2013 by Douglas Richardson Vol. II. p. 56
• "Royal Ancestry" 2013 by Douglas Richardson Vol. III. p. 339
• Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700, 7th ed., Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992. Access online (search only) at GoogleBooks, Line 120, p.107.