Talk:George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
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Why is there no mention of George and Lady Jane Rochford's child? There was only one--a son, I believe, who is not well known because people preferred to believe that George was either: a.) a homosexual b.) a womanizer, but a wife-hater. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KEB (talk • contribs) 14:01, 2006 July 12.
There is no mention of it because it isn't true. Neither is there any evidence that George was a homosexual or that he had a bad relationship with his wife; there is evidence he was, like many young men of the period (and now), a womaniser. He and Jane had no children. When a man named George Boleyn, dean of Lichfield later gained prominence, some later historians assumed he was their son; he was a distant cousin. If there had been a son, there would have been records of it, and he would have inherited the earldoms of Ormonde and Wiltshire. Boleyn —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boleyn (talk • contribs) 17:59, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Possibility that Boleyn girls could have been educated at Oxford
Sometimes Wikipedia descends to silliness. Women were not admitted to Oxford before the nineteeth century at the earlieat possible date. To suggest that (as the article does) that it was only a matter of choice or intellectual inadequacy that prevented the Boleyn girls from going to Oxford suggests that the users of the Wiki have no knowledge of history whatsoever. I suggested inserting the interpolation '(women couldn't)'. Chasnor15 (talk) 12:48, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
