Margaret (Butler) Boleyn (abt. 1455 - bef. 1540)

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Descendants

Died before 20 Mar 1540 before about age 85 in England

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Biography

Margaret was the younger daughter, and co-heiress, of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, and his first wife Anne Hankford.^[1][2] Her birth year is uncertain. A footnote in Volume X of the revised edition of Cokayne's Complete Peerage says she was 20 in 1485,^[3] pointing to a birth date of about 1465, but this cannot be reconciled with the dates of Margaret's children, including the first of her daughters called Anne, who died in 1479, a few years old.^[4] Wikipedia says Margaret was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, but no source is given for this.^[5] Her father also had interests in England.

Before 16 November 1469 (when she is referred to as William's wife in a property agreement with Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury and others^[6]) Margaret married William Boleyn.^[1][2] They had eleven children:

• Thomas^[1][2]
• William^[1][2]
• James^[1][2]
• Edward^[1][2]
• John^[1][2]
• Anthony^[1][2]
• Margaret^[1][2]
• Anne, who died in 1479^[1][2][4]
• another Anne, who married John Shelton^[1][2]
• Alice, who married Robert Clere^[1][2]
• Jane/Amata, who married Philip Calthorpe^[1][2]

William Boleyn died in 1505. In his will he left Margaret an annuity of 100 marks.^[7][8]

In 1515 Margaret inherited from her father lands in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire and Oxfordshire^[1][2] and Newhall in Essex.^[9][10]

For the last 20 years or so of her life, Margaret was said to have been incapable of managing her affairs.^[11][12] In 1521 she appointed her son James to look after her properties in Ireland.^[13]

In 1538 she and her son Thomas sold the manors of Aylesbury and Bierton, Buckinghamshire.^[14]

Margaret died a little before 20 March 1539/40.^[1][2] Orders for Inquisitions Post Mortem were issued in 31 Henry VIII (21 April 1539-20 April 1540).^[15]

Research Notes

Margaret was a grandmother of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. I, pp. 385-386, BUTLER 11, Google Books
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. II, pp. 55-56, BUTLER 12
3. ↑ G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. X, St Catherine Press, 1945, p. 133 footnote b, viewable on Familysearch
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} John Sell Cotman. Engravings of sepulchral brasses in Norfolk and Suffolk, Vol. I, Henry G Bohn, 1839, p. 23, Internet Archive
5. ↑ Wikipedia: Lady Margaret Butler
6. ↑ The National Archives, ref. BCM/H/1/3/2, Discovery Centre catalogue entry
7. ↑ Nicholas Harris Nicolas. Testamenta Vetusta, Vol. II, Nichols and Son, 1826, p. 465, Google Books
8. ↑ The National Archives, ref. PROB 11/14/790, Discovery Centre catalogue entry
9. ↑ Archaeologia, Vol. III, 1775, pp. 20-21, Hathi Trust
10. ↑ 'Parishes: Fritwell', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 6, ed. Mary D Lobel (London, 1959), pp. 134-146, British History Online, accessed 2 August 2022
11. ↑ W Rye. "The Murder of Amy Robert, Appendix VI: The Insanity of Margaret Boleyn" in The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany, Vol. III, Part I, A H Goose and Co., 1885, pp. 319-320, Google Books
12. ↑ G E Cokayne, Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. X, p. 137, footnote b
13. ↑ The National Archives, C 147/104, Discovery Centre catalogue entry
14. ↑ Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, ref. 705:349/12946/498729, National Archives Discovery Centre catalogue entry
15. ↑ The National Archives, ref. E 150/87/6, Discovery Centre catalogue entry

See also:

• Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700, 8th ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992, p. 118, line 120/38

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 2 August 2022 and was reviewed the same day by Thiessen-117.

Margaret (Butler) Boleyn is in a Richardson-documented trail from the Alsop Gateway Ancestors (Timothy, Elizabeth and George) to Magna Carta Surety Barons Roger le Bigod and Hugh le Bigod (Magna Carta Ancestry, vol. I, pages 6-9 ALSOP) which was badged in August 2022. See the trails HERE.

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