Lady Margaret Butler

Lady Margaret Butler
Bornc. 1454
Kilkenny Castle, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Diedc. 1539 (aged 84–85)
England
Noble familyButler
Spouse(s)Sir William Boleyn
IssueAnne Boleyn
Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
John Boleyn
Anthony Boleyn
Jane Boleyn
Alice Boleyn
Margaret Boleyn
William Boleyn
James Boleyn
Edward Boleyn
FatherThomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond
MotherAnne Hankford
Arms of Butler, Earl of Ormond: Gules, three covered cups or[1]

Lady Margaret Boleyn[2] (c. 1454 – 1539) was an Irish noblewoman, the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. She married Sir William Boleyn and through her eldest son Sir Thomas Boleyn, was the paternal grandmother of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII of England, and great-grandmother of Anne and Henry's daughter, Elizabeth I of England.

  1. ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 864
  2. ^ As wife of a Knight, she would also be known as Lady Boleyn, like her daughter-in-law was before Thomas Boleyn became Viscount Rochford.