Blickling, Norfolk is in Norfolk.
On 2nd January 1402 Nicholas Dagworth of Blickling died without issue. His widow Eleanor Rossall [aged 25] sold her third of the Blickling, Norfolk estates to John Erpingham. Around 1409 married a second time John Mortimer [aged 24].
In 1434 Isabella Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 28] and Ann Hoo [aged 9] at Blickling, Norfolk. She married 1. Henry Aucher 2. William Cheney and had issue.
In 1434 John Fortescue was born to Richard Fortescue [aged 20] in Blickling, Norfolk. He married in or before 1476 Alice Boleyn, daughter of Geoffrey Boleyn and Ann Hoo, and had issue.
In 1451 William Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 45] and Ann Hoo [aged 26] at Blickling, Norfolk. He married 1465 Margaret Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde and Anne Hankford Countess Ormonde, and had issue.
On 26th June 1458 Cecily Boleyn [aged 50] died at Blickling, Norfolk. She was buried at St Andrew's Church, Blickling [Map]
On 18th November 1475 Anne Boleyn was born to William Boleyn [aged 24] and Margaret Butler [aged 21] at Blickling, Norfolk. She married before 1503 John Shelton and had issue.
On 23rd April 1485 Isabella Boleyn [aged 51] died at Blickling, Norfolk.
On 18th August 1512 Anne Wood aka Wode died in childbirth whilst visiting her sister Elizabeth, wife of James Boleyn [aged 19], at Blickling, Norfolk. St Andrew's Church, Blickling [Map]. Memorial brass to Anne Wood aka Wode depicted holding the two and female twins that she died giving birth to. The inscription: 'Pray for the soul of Anne Wode, the second wife of Thomas Astley of Melton Constable [aged 43], Esquire, who on the feast day of Saint Agapitus the Martyr gave birth to a male and a female child, and after the peril of childbirth, suddenly departed to the Lord in the year one thousand five hundred and twelve of Christ.' Her brass is an early example of the Norwich 6 style, produced in the workshop of the freemason and marbler William Harmer and laid in a slab of Vaudey Abbey marble. The figure is a unique composition for this workshop, showing Anne with a baby in swaddling in each arm as well as an opening in her gown beneath her girdle that marks her pregnancy and a large rosary hanging in front of her. The church in which it lies has an fine collection of other brasses.
Orate p[ro] a[n]i[m]a Anne a wode ux[oris] s[e]cu[n]de Tho[m]e Asteley de Melton Constable. Armig[eri], que in die s[an]c[t]i Agapiti Martyris masculu[m] et femella[m] ad partu[m] pep[er]it et post pariendi p[er]iculu[m] subito migravit ad Domi[num] A[nn]o M[illensim]o benignissimi Vo XIIo Xpi.
Anne Wood aka Wode: she was born to John Wood aka Wode. Before 1507 Thomas Astley of Hilmorton and Melton Constable and she were married.
Thomas Astley of Hilmorton and Melton Constable: In 1469 he was born. On 19th October 1543 he died.
Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses Volume 1. Plate LI. Ann, Wife Of Thomas Asteley [aged 43], at Blickling, 1512. Blomefield's Norf. vi. 405. Gough's Sepulch. Monum. ii. 309,
This brass, to the memory of the second wife of Thomas Asteley, is mentioned by Gough, because of the twin infants in swaddling-clothes represented in her arms: the lady having died after the birth of these children. On this account it is singular, but remarkable on no other.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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In 1561 James Boleyn [aged 68] died. His great-nephew Edward Clere [aged 24], grandson of James' sister Alice Boleyn, inherited the estate at Blickling, Norfolk. Curiously Edward Clere's mother was Anne Tyrrell, grand-daughter of James Tyrrell who had been executed in 1502, and who had reportedly confessed to the murder of the Princes in the Tower.
He was buried at St Andrew's Church, Blickling [Map] on 6th September 1561. In his will he left he great-niece Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 27] a basin and gilt ewer and "my written book of the revelations of Saint Bridget".
In 1671 Henry Hobart 4th Baronet [aged 14] was knighted by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 40] at Blickling, Norfolk.
On 14th November 1841 John Kerr 7th Marquess Lothian [aged 47] died at Blickling Hall, Norfolk [Map]. His son William [aged 9] succeeded 8th Marquess Lothian, 11th Earl Lothian, 9th Earl Lothian. He inherited the Blickling, Norfolk estate and made significant changes.