The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femmes Fatals Who Changed English HistoryEIGHT 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. |
Contents
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14851526 | vi |
Lusty to Look On Pleasant Demure Sage | vi |
5Three Lady Boleyns at Court | vi |
Mary Boleyn Royal Mistress | xvi |
15261536 | xxxix |
Princess Mary the Queens Aunts | xcviii |
The Fall of the Boleyns | cxxii |
15361603 | cxlix |
After Anne | cl |
The Notorious Lady Rochford | clxvi |
Boleyn Daughters | clxxxvi |
The Last Boleyn Woman | ccxi |
Notes | 49 |
The Kings New Love | xl |
Anne Boleyn the Kings Great Matter | lvii |
Anne the Queen | lxxx |
Bibliography | 60 |
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