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Definition of Boleyn
1. Noun. The second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I; was executed on a charge of adultery (1507-1536).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boleyn
Literary usage of Boleyn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Some letters of Boleyn's are preserved among t lie Lambeth MSS. and the State
Papers. There are some curious allusions to Boleyn in the ..."
2. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1868)
"It would be well for the memory of the lovely Boleyn, if all the other ...
Thomas Boleyn of Salle, in Norfolk, the patriarch of Anne Boleyn's line, ..."
3. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1893)
"Mary and Anne Boleyn 4 CONTROVERSI which has gone on by fits for many years
past, -JA- seems to have failed in settling the vexed question of the ..."
4. The Reign of Henry VIII from His Accession to the Death of Wolsey by John Sherren Brewer (1884)
"must be remembered that poor Mary Boleyn had solicited Master Secretary's powerful
influence in her favour, " for the love that well I know you do bear to ..."
5. Testamenta Vetusta: Being Illustrations from Wills, of Manners, Customs, &c by Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1826)
"My body to be buried in the Cathedral of Norwich, near the sepulture of Dame Ann
Boleyn, my mother; I will that my son Thomas Boleyn, according to the will ..."
6. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1825)
"Sir Thomas Boleyn to King Henry VIIIth an• flouncing the Election of the ...
Sir Thomas Boleyn to Cardinal Wolsey upon the Christening of the Duke of ..."
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