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Lady Anne Boleyn (née Hoo; c. 1424 – 6 June 1485) was an English noblewoman, noted for being the great grandmother of Anne Boleyn and therefore the maternal great-great grandmother of Elizabeth I of England.
26 de sept. de 2022 · Lady Anne Hoo (1425-1484) was the daughter of Sir Thomas Hoo, First Baron Hoo and Hastings of Bedford and Hastings, and the wife of Lord Mayor Of London Geoffrey Boleyn. The couple had two children, Sir William Boleyn of Blickening (c. 1449 - 1505) and Lady Anne Boleyn (1475 - 1556).
13 de dic. de 2021 · Lady Anne was the daughter of Sir Thomas Hoo, First Baron Hoo and Hastings of Bedford and Hastings, and his first wife Elizabeth Wychingham. [1] . She was the great grandmother of Queen Anne Boleyn (d.1536) and great great grandmother of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). Birth. Anne Hoo was born about 1425 (aged 30 in 1455). [2] Family.
Thomas Hoo married (1st) before 1 July 1428, Elizabeth Wychingham, daughter of Nicholas Wychingham, esquire, of Witchingham, Norfolk, by whom he had a daughter: Anne Hoo (born c.1424), who married Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, mercer and Lord Mayor of London: they were the great-grandparents of Anne Boleyn.
Hoo, Anne (c. 1425–1484) English noblewoman. Name variations: Anne Boleyn. Born around 1425; died in 1484; daughter of Thomas Hoo, Lord Hoo and Hastings, and Elizabeth Wychingham ; married Geoffrey Boleyn (Lord Mayor of London in 1458); children: William Boleyn (c. 1451–1505, grandfather of Anne Boleyn ).
William's mother was Anne Hoo (c.1424-1484), the eldest child of Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings of Luton Hoo in Hertfordshire, and his only child by his first wife Elizabeth Wychingham, a daughter of Sir Nicholas Wychingham of Norfolk.
As for the idea that Anne fabricated her family tree because she was ashamed of the Boleyns and their merchant roots, there is no evidence that Anne was ashamed of the Boleyns. It is thought that she wore a B necklace – B for Boleyn – and why should she be ashamed of a family who had risen to such wealth and favour?
