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Anne Boleyn

1501 - 1536

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Anne Boleyn (; c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation. Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn (later Earl of Wiltshire), and his wife, Elizabeth Howard, and was educated in the Netherlands and France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Boleyn has received more than 26,154,247 page views. Her biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Anne Boleyn is the 4th most popular companion (down from 3rd in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 28th in 2019) and the most popular British Companion.

Anne Boleyn is most famous for being the second wife of King Henry VIII of England. She was executed in 1536 on charges of treason, adultery, and incest.

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  • 81

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 4.57

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Anne Boleyn ranks 4 out of 784. Before her are Nefertiti, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and Fatimah. After her are Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Madame de Pompadour, Aisha, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Madame du Barry, Mihrimah Sultan, Catherine de' Medici, and Klara Hitler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1501, Anne Boleyn ranks 1. After her are Gerolamo Cardano, Pope Marcellus II, Isabella of Austria, Garcilaso de la Vega, Bairam Khan, Queen Munjeong, Yi Hwang, Leonhart Fuchs, Sahib I Giray, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, and Ivan Susanin. Among people deceased in 1536, Anne Boleyn ranks 2. Before her is Erasmus. After her are Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Catherine of Aragon, Baldassare Peruzzi, Germaine of Foix, William Tyndale, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Garcilaso de la Vega, John of Leiden, and Cecilia Gallerani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anne Boleyn ranks 30 out of 8,785. Before her are Alan Turing (1912), Mary II of England (1662), Mick Jagger (1943), Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947), Charles Dickens (1812), and Margaret Thatcher (1925). After her are Alexander Fleming (1881), James Cook (1728), James Prescott Joule (1818), Alexander Graham Bell (1847), Jane Austen (1775), and Robert Hooke (1635).

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Among COMPANIONS In United Kingdom

Among companions born in United Kingdom, Anne Boleyn ranks 1. After her are Jane Seymour (1508), Victoria, Princess Royal (1840), Mary Boleyn (1499), Catherine Parr (1512), Catherine Howard (1523), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Elizabeth of York (1466), Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496), Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), Mary of Teck (1867), and Elizabeth Woodville (1437).

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