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Boleyn

Sir William Bullen,
mar Margaret Butler and had issue:

1. Sir Thomas Bullen,
   of Hever Castle, Kent (also here),
   granted title of Earl of Ormonde 1527 (taken from its true heirs in the Butler family), NOT 1528,
   picture of him in Hever as "Ormond",
   his family fell 1536, George and Anne executed,
   he died 1538 [or poss. 1537],
   the Earldom of Ormonde went back to the Butler family,
   had issue:

   
   

   1. George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, executed 1536.

      
      

   2. Mary Boleyn (see here),
      also mistress of Henry VIII,
      mar William Carey and had issue:
      1. Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (see here).
         It has been suggested that Henry VIII was his real father.

      2. Catherine Carey (see here).
         It has been suggested that Henry VIII was her real father.

      
      

   3. Anne Boleyn (see here),
      courted by Henry VIII from 1526,
      she mar 1533 to Henry VIII and had issue.

   4. Thomas Boleyn,
      bur in Penshurst church, not far from Hever Castle.