
Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1477-12 March 1539) was Treasurer of the Household from 1521 to 1525 and Lord Privy Seal from 1530 to 1536.
Biography[]
Thomas Boleyn was born in Hever, Kent, England in 1477, a scion of an old family. Boleyn became known as a skilled diplomat, and he was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of King Henry VIII of England in 1509. He served as ambassador to the Low Countries, Sheriff of Kent in 1511 and 1517, ambassador to France from 1518 to 1521, envoy to Emperor Charles V in 1521 and 1523, envoy to France in 1527, and envoy to Charles V and Pope Clement VII in 1529. King Henry also appointed him Treasurer of the Household and Lord Privy Seal, and, after the executions of his daughter Anne Boleyn (to which he acquiesced) and his son George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, he fell from grace. He died in 1539 in Hever, Kent.