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fideidefenswhore · 11 months

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regarding the DOB debate on anne boleyn, are there any points that you haven't seen argued before?

Only one, and it's for the argument of 1507 (or rather, just against 1500-01, I think it would hold for 1504/5 as well):

"The festivities culminated in the evening entertainments of 5 May [1527], when, by the King's command, De Turenne, the principal French ambassador, danced with the Princess Mary, 'and the King with Mistress Boleyn, who was brought up in France with the late Queen [Claude].'" Six Queens of Henry VIII, David Starkey

So, this remark doesn't make much sense if AB was born 1500/1. That would mean she began her service to Queen Claude, in 1515, at the age of fourteen. In the language of the time, it was children who were "brought up". The age of fourteen was considered adulthood, it was the age at which one could legally enter contracts.

#not applicable to your question but this is an interesting pivotal event for other reasons...#well. it would have been to those in attendance with hindsight #but giving mary the place of honor with the ambassador would suggest that atp he did not think the annulment of his marriage #would necessitate any change in the status of legitimacy in his daughter #anon

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