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  • Name Elizabeth Howard
    Birth 1480 
    Gender Female
    Death 03 Apr 1538 
    Findagrave.com 05 Jul 2023 
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    Burial Lambeth, Greater London, England -- Plot: Howard Chapel Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • St Mary's Churchyard
    Person ID I1760  Butler Family Tree
    Last Modified 6 Jun 2026

    Father Sir Thomas Howard,   b. 1443, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 May 1524, Framlingham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Relationship natural
    Mother Elizabeth Tylney,   b. 1446, Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 04 Apr 1497, Thetford, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
    Relationship natural
    Marriage Bef 1480 
    Family ID F554  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sir Thomas Boleyn,   b. 1477, Blickling, Broadland District, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Mar 1539, Hever, Sevenoaks District, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
    Marriage Bef 1499 
    Children 
     1. Mary Boleyn,   b. 1499, Blickling, Broadland District, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jul 1543, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F62  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Jun 2026

  • Photos
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  • Notes 


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      found at findagrave.com on 7/5/2023

      Elizabeth Howard Boleyn Famous memorial

      Birth: 1480 Arundel, Arun District, West Sussex, England
      Death: 3 Apr 1538 (aged 57-58) Hever, Sevenoaks District, Kent, England
      Burial: St. Mary's Churchyard, Lambeth, London Borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England
      Plot: Howard Chapel
      Memorial #: 7042957
      Bio:
      English Aristocracy. She is remembered as the mother of Anne Boleyn, who became the ill-fated 2nd wife of English King Henry VIII, and the maternal grandmother of Anne's daughter, Queen Elizabeth I of England. She was born around 1480, the older of the two daughters of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and his first wife Elizabeth Tilney. When she was a young girl, her family managed to survive the fall of their patron, King Richard III, who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in August 1485 and supplanted by the victor, King Henry VII. She became a part of the Royal Court and it was while she was at Court, that she married Thomas Boleyn, an ambitious young courtier, around 1498. Through her marriage, she held the titles of Countess of Wiltshire, Countess of Ormond and Viscountess Rochford. She was a lady-in-waiting at the royal court; first to Elizabeth of York, the wife of King Henry VII of England and then to Catherine of Aragon, King Henry VIII's first wife. In 1519 her daughters, Anne and Mary, were living in the French royal court as ladies-in-waiting to the French Queen consort Claude, the first wife of King Francis I. In contrast to Mary, her daughter Anne, is thought to have had a close relationship with her mother. She had been in charge of her children's early education and she had taught them music and religion, as well as arithmetic, embroidery, the family genealogy, good manners, household management, reading, and writing. In 1525 King Henry VIII fell in love with Anne, and she became her protective chaperone. She accompanied Anne to Court, since Anne was attempting to avoid a sexual relationship with the King. She travelled with Anne to view York Place after the fall of the Boleyn family's great political opponent, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, an intrigue which had given Anne her first real taste of political power. After Anne and King Henry VIII were married in 1533, she remained in her daughter's household throughout her time as queen consort. She sided with the rest of the family when her daughter Mary was banished in 1535 for eloping with a commoner, William Stafford. The following year, the family was overtaken by a much greater scandal as Anne, and her only living son George, the 2nd Viscount Rochford, were executed on fabricated charges of treason, adultery and incest. Her husband and her brother Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, provided no help to Anne or George. Following the family's disgrace, she retired with her husband to their home at Hever Castle, Kent where she died at the age of 57 or 58, only two years after her two younger children were executed, and her husband died the following year.
      Family Members
      Parents
      Thomas Howard 1443-1524
      Elizabeth Tilney Howard 1445-1497
      Spouse
      Thomas Boleyn 1477-1539
      Siblings
      Thomas Howard 1473-1554
      Edward Howard 1476-1513
      Edmund Howard 1478-1539
      Muriel Howard Knyvet 1485-1511
      Katherine Howard 1508-1554
      Half Siblings
      Elizabeth Howard Radclyffe Unknown-1534
      Dorothy Howard Stanley
      Richard Howard Unknown-1517
      Margaret Bourchier Bryan 1468-1551
      John Bourchier 1469-1533
      Anne Bourchier Fiennes 1470-1530
      Anne Howard de Vere 1501-1559
      William Howard 1510-1573
      Thomas Howard 1511-1537
      Children
      Henry Boleyn Unknown-1508
      Thomas Boleyn 1499-Unknown
      Mary Boleyn Carey Stafford 1499-1543
      Anne Boleyn 1501-1536
      George Boleyn 1504-1536
      Maintained by: Find a Grave
      Originally Created by: 1901 (46549766)
      Added: 30 Dec 2002
      URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7042957/elizabeth-boleyn
      Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7042957/elizabeth-boleyn: accessed 05 July 2023), memorial page for Elizabeth Howard Boleyn (1480-3 Apr 1538), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7042957, citing St. Mary's Churchyard, Lambeth, London Borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England; Maintained by Find a Grave.
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      found at findagrave.com bef 7/5/2023

      Elizabeth Howard Boleyn

      Birth: 1480
      Death: Apr. 3, 1538

      Queen Anne Boleyn's mother. Her parents were Thomas Howard, second Duke of Norfolk and Elizabeth Tynley. A descendant of King Edward I and his second wife Margaret of France, Elizabeth married Thomas Boleyn. They were parents of the famous Mary, Anne and George Boleyn. After her daughter downfall, she retired with her husband to Hever Castle, Kent.

      Family links:
      Parents:
      Thomas Howard (1443 - 1524)
      Elizabeth Tilney Howard (1446 - 1497)

      Spouse:
      Sir Thomas Boleyn (1477 - 1538)

      Children:
      Thomas Boleyn (1499 - 1520)*
      Mary Boleyn Stafford (1501 - 1543)*
      George Boleyn (1502 - 1536)*
      Anne Boleyn (1504 - 1536)*

      *Calculated relationship

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      Burial:
      St Mary Churchyard
      Lambeth
      Greater London, England
      Plot: Howard Chapel

      Maintained by: Find A Grave
      Originally Created by: Guada
      Record added: Dec 30, 2002
      Find A Grave Memorial# 7042957
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