lochiels: HISTORY MEME | FASCINATING WOMEN [6/10} → Lady Elizabeth Boleyn (née

lochiels:HISTORY MEME | FASCINATING WOMEN [6/10} → Lady Elizabeth Boleyn (née Howard) Countess of Wiltshire (c. 1480 – 3 April 1538)Lady Elizabeth Howard was born in Arundel Castle in Sussex in 1486. She was the daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and Elizabeth Tilney. She was a direct descendant of the Edward I of England. Lady Elizabeth Howard was lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth of York, the mother of King Henry VIII. In 1499, Lady Elizabeth married Thomas Boleyn and moved to his family home at Blickling Castle in Norfolk. In 1509, King Henry VIII crowned King of England and Lady Elizabeth Howard Boleyn was appointed lady-in-waiting to his new queen, Katharine of Aragon. Thomas Boleyn was then knighted and worked as a diplomat for King Henry VIII in the Netherlands and France. Meanwhile, her children were well educated, George was educated at court and her two daughters had been abroad. In contrast to Elizabeth’s first daughter Mary, Anne, is thought to have had a close relationship with her mother. Elizabeth had been in charge of her children’s early education including Anne’s and she had taught her music and religion, as well as arithmetic, embroidery, the family genealogy, good manners, household management, reading, and writing. In 1525, Henry VIII fell in love with Anne, and Elizabeth became her protective chaperone. She accompanied Anne to Court, since Anne was attempting to avoid a sexual relationship with the King. Elizabeth 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. Thomas was create Earl of Wiltshire soon after, and she assumed the title Countess of Wiltshire. Anne was crowned queen four years later.Elizabeth remained in her daughter’s household throughout her time as queen consort. Tradition has it that Anne’s daughter, Elizabeth I was named after her maternal grandmother. However, it is more likely that she was named after Henry’s mother, Elizabeth of York, although we cannot rule out the possibility that she was named after both grandmothers.She sided with the rest of the family when her eldest daughter, Mary, was banished in 1535 for eloping with a commoner, William Stafford. Mary had initially expected her sister’s support (Anne had been Mary’s only confidante within the Boleyn family since 1529), but Anne was furious at the breach of etiquette and refused to receive her. A year later disaster struck for the Boleyn family, it was a surprising and sad fall from grace in 1536. Two of her children had been executed for crimes they did not commit. Elizabeth passed away two years later at Baynards Castle, London. It is possible she could have died from a ‘broken heart’.  -- source link
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