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Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, 1st Earl of Ormond, 1st Viscount Rochford KG KB (c. 1477 – 12 March 1539), of Hever Castle in Kent, was an English diplomat and politician who was the father of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, and was thus the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I.
Thomas Boleyn, the father of Henry VIII’s second wife, Queen Anne and grandfather to Queen Elizabeth I, has often been portrayed as a villainous figure. Someone who orchestrated his daughter’s rise to power, abandoned her at the eleventh hour and was absent during her execution.
SIR THOMAS BOLEYN, EARL OF WILTSHIRE, was the second son of Sir William Boleyn of Blickling, Norfolk, and grandson of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, a wealthy London merchant, who was lord mayor in 1457.
On 12th March 1539, just under three years after the executions of two of his children, Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire died at Hever Castle, the Boleyn family home, he was in his sixties.
Today, I’m going to look at Sir Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, Earl of Ormonde and Viscount Rochford, the father of Queen Anne Boleyn and an important man at the court of King Henry VIII.
Boleyn's claims to the Earldom of Wiltshire derived from his Irish relatives, his maternal great-grandfather, James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond was the 1st Earl of Wiltshire. On 1 May 1461, he was executed on the orders of King Edward IV, following his victory at the Battle of Towton.
The Boleyn family was a prominent English family in the gentry and aristocracy. They reached the peak of their influence during the Tudor period, when Anne Boleyn became the second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII, their daughter being the future Elizabeth I. [1]
Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire. The Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond. Coat of arms for Thomas Boleyn. Born. 12 June 1478. Hever Castle, Hever, Kent, Kingdom of England. Died. 12 March 1540.
THOMAS BOLEYN, EARL OF ORMONDE AND WILTSHIRE, VISCOUNT ROCHFORD. BORN: 1477. DIED: 1539. Thomas Boleyn by Holbein. The Royal Collection.
Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, 1st Earl of Ormond, 1st Viscount Rochford KG KB (c. 1477 – 12 March 1539), of Hever Castle in Kent, was an English diplomat and politician who was the father of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, and was thus the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I.
