Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire

Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, 1st Earl of Ormond,On 22 February 1538, the earldom of Ormond was restored to Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond 1st Viscount Rochford KG. KB ( – 12 March 1539), of Hever Castle in Kent, was an English diplomat and politician who 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 was further ennobled as Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond.

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Category:1470s births
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