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Mary Boleyn, also known as Lady Mary, (c. 1499 – 19 July 1543) was the sister of English queen consort Anne Boleyn, whose family enjoyed considerable influence during the reign of King Henry VIII.
Mary was one of the mistresses of Henry VIII for an unknown period of time. It has been rumoured that she bore two of the king's children, though Henry did not acknowledge either of them as he had acknowledged Henry FitzRoy, his son by another mistress, Elizabeth Blount. Mary was also rumoured to have been a mistress of Henry VIII's rival, King Francis I of France, for some period between 1515 and 1519.
Mary Boleyn was married twice: in 1520 to William Carey, and again, secretly, in 1534, to William Stafford, a soldier from a good family but with few prospects. This secret marriage to a man considered beneath her station angered both King Henry VIII and her sister, Queen Anne, and resulted in Mary's banishment from the royal court. She died seven years later, having spent the remainder of her life in obscurity.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Mary Boleyn, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Mary Boleyn, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Wilkinson, Josephine: Mary Boleyn – The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress, Amberley Publishing, Gloucestershire, UK. 2010.
Chapter 1 'The Early Years, 1500–1514' pp. 7-13.
« ... While it is possible that Mary Boleyn was born at Hever Castle, it is more probable that she came into the world at Blickling Hall, near Aylsham in Norfolk. ... The date of Mary's birth is as difficult to pinpoint as the place. No documents in which the event might have been recorded have survived, and such evidence that does exist is little more than circumstantial. To add to the difficulties it is not even clear in which order the Boleyn children were born. While the consensus seems to be that George, the only surviving son, was the youngest Boleyn, born in about 1504 historians have long argued about whether Mary or Anne was the elder. .... »
Here the author, presents some of the evidence that has been relied upon to support the conclusion of Anne having been born first. Then she presents the evidence to the contrary. Mostly relying on "the original sources, the earlier the better." After which she concludes:
« ... It can be accepted therefore, that Mary was the eldest daughter of the Boleyns. Scholarly consensus generally holds that she was born c.1500 with Anne following a year or so later. .... »
Chapter 13 'The Bitter End, 1536-1543' pp. 176-177.
As for the date of Mary's death, Josephine Wilkinson states:-
« (after "On 13 February 1542 ...") No more is heard of Mary until May 1543, when she and William were granted livery of lands belonging to Mary's grandmother, Margaret Boleyn by way of jointure. Two months later, on 30 July 1543, Mary died at Rochford Hall. She was almost forty-three years old. It is not known where she is buried; logic would dictate that her tomb should be at Rochford, but if she does rest there, her grave is unmarked. .... »
NOTE: However, this date and location of her death is by no means certain. And has been disputed by others, including Alison Weir in the following source reference.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Weir, Alison: Mary Boleyn – The Mistress of Kings, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, Canada. 2011.
Chapter 1 'The Eldest Daughter' pp. 3-4, 11-17.
« Blickling Hall, one of England's greatest Jacobean showpiece mansions, lies not two miles northwest of Aylsham in Norfolk. ... Blickling was where the Boleyn siblings' lives probably began, ...
Scholars have long disputed which of the surviving daughters was the oldest, some insisting that it was probably Anne,[29] but there survives good evidence that it was Mary.[30]
29: "For example, Warnicke Retha: The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the court of Henry VIII (Cambridge, 1989); Claremont, Francesca: Catherine of Aragon (London, 1939)"
30: "For example, Loades, David: The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Stroud, 2009) (first published as Henry VIII and His Queens, Stroud, 1994); Plowden, Alison: The Other Boleyn Girl (www.bbc.co.uk).
Here the author discusses the various sources of conflicting/confusing evidences. And then she concludes:
« Mary was older than Anne, so she must have been born in 1500-01 at the very latest, probably earlier, although there may well have been no more than a year between them.[54] Mary's year of birth is usually given as 1498 [55] or 1499.[56]
54: Plowden: The Other Boleyn Girl.
55: Powell, Roger: Royal Sex: Mistresses and Lovers of the British Royal Family (Stroud, 2010).
56: Hughes, Jonathan: "Mary Stafford (c.1499-1543)" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 2004-09).
Chapter 12 'A Poor Honest Life' p. 250.
« ... It is often stated—on the premise that she had come into possession of it on her grandmother's death—that she died at Rochford Hall in Essex, a house she would have known from childhood, and where she is said to have made a home with William Stafford. But as Mary owned Rochford Hall for precisely four days, there would surely not have been time for her to take possession, and the most she could probably have managed was a visit of inspection—given that her health permitted; so it is doubtful if she ever lived there. She died on July 19, 1543,[84] leaving her eighteen-year-old son Henry Carey, to enjoy the Butler inheritance in her stead. It is possible that her death was sudden,[85] but the cause is unknown. .... »
84: "According to her inquisition postmortem in the National Archives, cited by Round, J.H.: The Early life of Anne Boleyn: A Critical Essay (London, 1886)."
85: Beauclerk-Dewar Peter, and Powell, Roger: Right Royal Bastards: The Fruits of Passion (Burke's Peerage, 2006; republished as Royal Bastards: Illegitimate Children of the British Royal Family, Stroud, 2008)."
- ↑ Also see the website: 'The Anne Boleyn Files" > '19 July 1543 – The Death of Mary Boleyn' – Posted By Claire on July 19, 2014
« ... Like so much with Mary Boleyn, we do not know what she died of, where she was when she died, where she was laid to rest, how old she was when she died… and it is speculation that she was allowed to live at Rochford Hall before formally inheriting it in 1543. Although it is said that Mary ordered a dovehouse to be built at Rochford Hall in 1540, I have not been able to find a primary source record for this.[3] .... »
3: "Weir, Alison (2011) Mary Boleyn: The Great and Infamous Whore, Appendix II, p.250" [This appears to be the same book, with a somewhat racier title, as that referenced above: Weir, Alison: Mary Boleyn – The Mistress of Kings, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, Canada. 2011.] S4
Accessed on 26/05/2021 at: '19 July 1543 – The Death of Mary Boleyn'
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