Boleyn
ANNE (bō'len or bul-ān'), second wife of Henry VIII. of England, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk, born, according to some accounts, in 1507, but more probably about 1501. She attended Mary, sister of Henry, on her marriage with Louis XII., to France, as lady of honor, returning to England about 1523, and becoming lady of honor to Queen Catherine. The king, who soon grew passionately enamored of her, without waiting for the official completion of his divorce from Catherine, married Anne in January, 1533, having previously created her BOLIDES Marchioness of Pembroke. When her pregnancy revealed the secret, Cranmer declared the first marriage void and the second valid, and Anne was crowned at Westminster with unparalleled splendor.
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ANNE BOLEYN ever, in turn supplanted by her own lady of honor, Jane Seymour. Suspicions of infidelity were alleged against her, and, in 1536, the Queen was brought before a jury of peers on a charge of treason and adultery, and found guilty. She was beheaded May 19, 1536.