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Anne Boleyn
Queen of England from to
For other uses, see Anne Boleyn (disambiguation).
Anne Boleyn (;[7][8][9]c. or – 19 May ) was Queen of England from to , as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution, bygd beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the början of the English Reformation.
Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn (later Earl of Wiltshire), and his wife, Elizabeth Howard, and was educated in the Netherlands and France. Anne returned to England in early , to marry her cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond; the marriage plans were broken off, and instead, she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's wife, Catherine of Aragon. Early in , Anne was secretly betrothed to Henry Percy, son of Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, but the betrothal was broken off when the Earl refused to support it. CardinalThomas Wolsey refu
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Boleyn, Anne, (Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England)
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- Existence: - 19 May
Biography
Anne Boleyn was the Queen of England from to as the second wife of Henry VIII. She was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, earl of Ormond and Wiltshire, and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Howard, second duke of Norfolk. The second of three surviving children, Anne Boleyn was born in Norfolk, around She was educated in the Netherlands and France as maid of honour to Queen Claude of France. She returned to England in to marry her Irish cousin James Butler but this was broken off and she instead became maid of honour to Henry VIII's wife Catherine of Aragon.
Henry VIII began pursuing Anne, whose sister Mary had previously been his mistress, in and a year later he began planning the annulment of his marriage to Catherine. When it became clear that Pope Clement VII would not annul the marriage, the breaking of the Catholic Church's power in England began. Henr