Peter - and Ashley - welcome to Rootschat. Hope you enjoy it
Peter, I'm slightly puzzled by your comment about the Duke of Norfolk. Anne Boleyn's (late) father in law was Henry VII, as she only married once (unless you count the putitive handfasting with Percy of Northumberland) and her husband was Henry VIII.
Anne's mother was born a Howard, and that was the connection, blood connection rather than marriage, to the Dukes of Norfolk - the Duke of Norfolk at the time of both Anne and Katherine Howard's marriages to Henry VIII was Uncle to both of them. That didn't stop him bringing in a guilty verdict and death sentence on his own niece.
Thomas Boleyn, or Bullen, Anne's father, was the son of a family who had, as it were, sprung from the ranks and one of the most fascinating parts of this thread for me has been watching the posts from so many Bullens or Boleyn descendants. Thomas had a meteoric rise in Tudor England and not all his family or relatives rose with him - to find all the posts about the branches of the family who continued in the country and didn't tread the path to London has been fascinating (as with Ashley's) and can I thank all of them on behalf of those of us obsessed with medieval history for bringing the family so much to life.
(I say 'all of us' but perhaps it's only me!)
