Frans purvis anne boleyn biography

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.

Frans purvis anne boleyn biography

The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start 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