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Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire.
English diplomat and politician of the Tudor era (1477-1539)
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About Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, 1st Earl of Ormond, 1st Viscount Rochford KG, KB, of Hever Castle in Kent, was an English diplomat and politician. He was the father of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, and was thus the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I. By Henry VIII, he was made a Knight of the Garter in 1523 and was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Rochford in 1525, and in 1529, he was further ennobled as Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond.
Everything about Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire →- Occupation
- diplomat, politician
- Position held
- Lord Privy Seal, Treasurer of the Household, ambassador
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- 1457
- Died
- March 12, 1539