2 May 1536 – The arrests of Queen Anne Boleyn and Lord Rochford
The Court Gate of the Byward Tower, Tower of London On the morning of Tuesday 2nd May 1536,…
George Boleyn
18 April 1536 – Chapuys encounters Anne Boleyn
On 18th April 1536, the first Tuesday after Easter, Eustace Chapuys, the imperial ambassador, arrived at Henry VIII's…
George Boleyn and the Admiral of France – November 1534
On 11th November 1534, Philippe de Chabot, Seigneur De Brion and Admiral of France, landed on English soil.…
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There are now over 2,000 blog posts and over 870 pages here on The Anne Boleyn Files site,…
Anne Boleyn’s head was not put on a spike
Thank you to Jen for inspiring this post. She emailed me yesterday with the question "Was Anne Boleyn's…
In Memory of Five Innocent Men – 17 May 1536
I sometimes feel that Sir Henry Norris, Sir Francis Weston, William Brereton, Mark Smeaton and George Boleyn, Lord…
17 May 1536 – These bloody days have broken my heart
The famous Tudor poet Thomas Wyatt the Elder wrote two poems about the executions he witnessed in 1536…