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Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard Connection – Family Tree Information
Many historians and biographers mention that Catherine Howard was related in some way to Anne Boleyn.
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Historically, they are joined by a gruesome bond – they were the only two wives executed by King Henry VIII. Catherine married Henry just four years after Anne’s execution; yet during those four years, he had married two other women (Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves.)
Catherine and Anne were first cousins.
Catherine’s father, Lord Edmund Howard, was the brother of Anne Boleyn’s mother, Lady Elizabeth Howard. Edmund and Elizabeth were the children of Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk.
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However, despite their close familial ties, the two women never met. There are many obvious reasons for this – first of all, Anne was about fifteen years older than Catherine. Secondly, the Norfolk family was a tangled collection of cousins (far too many to list here) and, since Catherine was one of many children of a poor younge