[MR] Wikipedia: George Boleyn

[Garth Groff via Atlantia]

Noble Friends,

Today in 1536 George Boleyn, Viscount of Rochford, and brother of Anne 
Boleyn, was executed on what were likely falsified charges of incest 
with the Queen and treason against Henry VIII: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boleyn,_2nd_Viscount_Rochford . 
Henry and Thomas Cromwell arranged the trumped up charges and fixed 
trials of both George and Anne so the King could marry Lady Jane 
Seymour, already pregnant with Henry's child.

Executed with George Boleyn were four other men who were dragged into 
Cromwell's plot: Henry Norris, Sir Francis Weston, William Brereton and 
Mark Smeaton. Smeaton had confessed to treason under torture, but he and 
the others were certainly innocent.

George Boleyn was married to Jane Parker, lady-in-waiting to Anne. Jane 
gave testimony against her husband and Anne, probably motivated by 
spite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Boleyn,_Viscountess_Rochford . 
Jane was heavily involved in the adultery committed by Henry's 4th wife, 
Catherine Howard, and went to the block with the fallen queen. It would 
seem that she finally got what what she deserved for bringing down her 
own husband.

Yours Aye,


Lord Mung Napier, That Crazy Scot