Anne Hankford (c. 1431 – 13 November 1485) was the first wife of
Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond (c. 1426- 3 August 1515). She was the great-grandmother of
Anne Boleyn.
She was a daughter and co-heiress of Sir
Richard Hankford
Sir Richard Hankford (c. 1397–1431) was holder by right of his wife (''jure uxoris'') of the feudal barony of Bampton and part of the feudal barony of Barnstaple in Devon, England.
Biography
He was the son of Richard Hankford (died 1419), MP fo ...
(c. 1397 – 1431) of
Annery, Monkleigh, Devon,
feudal baron of Bampton (grandson of Sir
William Hankford
Sir William Hankford KB (or Hankeford) (c. 1350 – 1423) of Annery in Devon, was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1413 until 1423.
Origins
His parentage is not known, but he came from a gentry family which origin ...
(c. 1350 – 1423),
Chief Justice of the King's Bench
Chief may refer to:
Title or rank
Military and law enforcement
* Chief master sergeant, the ninth, and highest, enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force
* Chief of police, the head of a police department
* Chief of the boa ...
) by his second wife Lady Anne Montagu (d.1457), a daughter of
John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (c. 1350 – 1400). Her paternal grandparents were Richard Hankford and Thomasine de Stapeldon. Her maternal grandparents were
John Montagu and
Maud Francis, daughter of Sir Adam Francis,
Lord Mayor of London.
She married Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond before 1450. He was the youngest son of
James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond
James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond (23 May 1393 – 23 August 1452) was the son of James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond. He was called 'The White Earl', and was esteemed for his learning. He was the patron of the Irish literary work, 'The Book of the ...
and
Joan de Beauchamp. They had two daughters:
*
Lady Margaret Butler (c.1454 – 1539) married
Sir William Boleyn
Sir William Boleyn, KB (1451 – 10 October 1505) of Blickling Hall in Norfolk and Hever Castle in Kent, was a wealthy and powerful landowner who served as Sheriff of Kent in 1489 and as Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1500. He was the fathe ...
, by whom she had issue, including
Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, the father of
Anne Boleyn,
Mary Boleyn
Mary Boleyn, also known as Lady Mary, (c. 1499 – 19 July 1543) was the sister of English queen consort Anne Boleyn, whose family enjoyed considerable influence during the reign of King Henry VIII.
Mary was one of the mistresses of Henry VII ...
, and
George Boleyn, by his wife
Lady Elizabeth Howard
*Lady Anne Butler (born c. 1455) who married Sir James St. Leger.
*Theobold Butler (1477–1560)
Anne died on 13 November 1485, in the same month of the restoration of the estates and title of Ormonde to her husband by King
Henry VII's first Parliament. Thomas Butler and his brothers had been declared traitors by King
Edward IV
Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England ...
, who had had statutes made against them at
Westminster. After her death, Thomas Butler married Lora Berkeley, daughter of Sir Edward Berkeley, by whom he had a daughter who died young. In 1509, he was appointed Queen
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine of Aragon (also spelt as Katherine, ; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536) was Queen of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 11 June 1509 until their annulment on 23 May 1533. She was previously ...
's first
Lord Chamberlain.
[ Fraser, Antonia ''The Wives of Henry VIII.'' Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1992. pp. 59, 117]
Notes
References
thepeerage.comAccessed December 18, 2007
* Bruce, Marie Louise ''Anne Boleyn.'' New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972
1431 births
1485 deaths
Ormond
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