William Carey & Mary Boleyn
William Carey & Mary Boleyn
Mary Boleyn Is Widowed .
William Carey was a handsome young man who had become a gentleman of the privy chamber, and was also a distant relative of Henry VII.
The King attended the wedding and gave the couple 6s and 8d as a wedding present.
Mary became the mistress of King Henry VIII around 1522.William Carey may, or may not, have known about his wife’s affair with the king.
William earned grants and gifts for his good service, but these may have been given as Mary's 'good service' to the KIng.
During this time frame, Mary gave birth to a daughter Katherine. Her birthdate is unknown but estimated to be c. 1523, leading to speculation she may have been the daughter of the king, and not William Carey.
The conception date of Mary’s son Henry, appears to have been when her alleged affair with the king had ended.
On the 22nd June 1528, Mary was widowed.Mary's first husband William Carey, died during the Sweating Sickness epidemic of 1528.
The location of his death and where he is buried, are unknown.
Whatever property William owned when he died, went to his son Henry.
Mary's husband had left her with considerable debts.Mary's financial circumstances became so desperate that she was reduced to begging the king's adviser Thomas Cromwell, to speak to Henry and Anne on her behalf.
Anne arranged for Mary's son, her nephew, to be educated at a respectable monastery.
Anne also interceded to secure her widowed sister had an annual pension of £100.
Sometime during 1533/1534 Mary, without permission, married a man named William Stafford.Stafford was a soldier in the garrison at Calais and later a gentleman usher to King Henry VIII.
Due to her marriage to William Stafford and for not seeking permission from her father or sister, Queen Anne Boleyn, Mary and her new husband were banished from court.
Mary's life between 1534 and her sister's exEcution on 19th May 1536 is difficult to trace.She was most likely residing at Rochford Hall in Essex.
There is no record of her visiting her parents, and no evidence of any correspondence with, or visits to, her sister Anne or her brother George, while they were imprisoned in the Tower of London.
It is likely that Mary never had any contact with her niece, Elizabeth I, who was to become one of the most iconic monarchs in English history.
Mary Boleyn lived to see her children gain some royal favor.Her teenage daughter Catherine was appointed a maid of honor to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s fourth wife.
Sometime in 1540, Catherine made a good match, marrying Sir Francis Knollys, a popular member of Henry VIII’s household.
Catherine also became one of her cousin Elizabeth Tudor’s, closest friends.
Mary's son Henry Carey, would be ennobled as Lord Hunsdon in Queen Elizabeth's reign.Elizabeth was kind to her Boleyn relatives, especially Mary’s children.
Mary died of unknown causes, on 19th July 1543, in her early forties.She had outlived her more famous brother and sister, by seven years.
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