Talk:William Boleyn

William Boleyn junior (the son)

The account of this person is full of inconsistency. The section "Issue", item 8, reads "William Boleyn (c. 1481 – 18 December 1571)", citing ref "venn|id=BLN503W|name=William Boleyn". This in itself does not work, as the citation given (the Cambridge alumni database, based on Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses with additions), states that this William, uncle of Queen Anne Boleyn, died in February 1551/52 and was buried at Stiffkey, Norfolk. The database is correctly transcribed from the original entry in Venn, Part I Vol 1, p. 124 (Internet Archive). Where has this date of 18 December 1571 come from, then?? Worse still, the "tree" of the Boleyn descent given in our WP article (which is difficult to correct) estimates the birth of this William at 1491, not 1481 as the article has previously stated. In short, the whole thing is a farrago, and no-one without conducting their own investigation into the sources can decide whether two Williams have been confounded, or if carelessness, or dependence upon unreliable sources, is responsible for muddling the information relating to one person with three mutually inconsistent statements. Eebahgum (talk) 19:45, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

18 December 1571 comes from Blomefield's Norfolk volume III, Blickling, where it says he was buried at Blickling not at Stiffkey. The plot thickens Eebahgum (talk) 22:52, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]