April 3 – Death of Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire

On this day in Tudor history, 3rd April 1538, Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, died at Baynard’s Castle in London, the home of Hugh Faringdon, the Abbot of Reading.

Elizabeth was about sixty-two years of age when she died, and her death came just less than two years after the executions of her daughter and son, Queen Anne Boleyn and George Boleyn, Lord Rochford.

You can find out more about her death, her funeral on 7th April 1538, and her resting place in the video below, and I've also added my video on 10 facts about her.

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