Is it true that Anne Boleyn was executed because the king thought she had an affair with her own brother?

Question

And are there any facts that she did or she did not sleep with her brother?

Answer 1

It wasn't her brother...it was the gentleman she had been having a relationship BEFORE the king insisted on having and marrying her.

I'm pretty sure it was Thomas Wyatt that she was most likely having the real affair with.

Yeah, the others were involved in the accusation of treason, some 5 men including her brother, George Boleyn.

Answer 2

That was one of the excuses. It is doubtful that he really thought it happened. He was a man who simply had no issue with capital punishment for almost any reason.

Answer 3

He was told that she had an affair with her brother and another man too. She was falsely accused and executed. Henry VIII could have cared less at the time. He was tired of Anne and in love with Jane Seymour. She also couldn't give him a male heir, which he blamed her for.

Answer 4

yes she was  accussed of adultery but i dont think she did it i think he used it as a excused so he could marry some one else as he was desperated for a boy

Answer 5

she is said to have had a 6th finger on one hand, which of course made her a witch. obviously.

Answer 6

No it it because she gave birth to a daughter  (Elizabeth the first )  and not a son which he wanted

Answer 7

she was charged with having affair with 5 men, one being her brother. cliche.

but in defense of anne, i dont think it was 5 men, and definiltly! not her own brother.thats a big stretch. henry wanted to get rid of her and marry his mistress jane seymour.

i think anne thought in order to get her man back from all the mistresses, after he said he would not give her a son,  she needed a son from one who could pass the gene.  I think she was with one guy who she was with previoulsy before being a lady in waiting to henry viii. anne probally didnt have an affair just for the child but also for women power. she loved the luxery. whatever she wanted to keep power, but she wasnt a w***e. henry was, im not saying she had an affair. im saying henry is the one who really did.

Answer 8

That's what she was executed for. But, if he really thought that is another story...

Answer 9

Anne Boleyn was killed for a few "reasons."  She was "officially" convicted of treason.   Her actual ‘crime’ was that she had affairs with 5 men including her brother George. There was no proof of course, but all six were found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.

The "real" reason behind her execution was that the King wanted to marry the Lady Jane Seymour.  Just as he had gotten rid of Catherine of Arragon in order to marry Anne Boleyn, he likewise had to get rid of Anne to marry Jane Seymour.  But since he felt she had betrayed him by having affairs, he decided to execute her rather than banish her.  I'm sure the affairs came to his attention from enemies of Anne Boleyn -- she had many in the Court .  The accusations could have been true but were most likely not.  But they certainly gave the King the "way out"  he needed to resolve his problem over how to marry Jane Seymour.

Answer 10

It was one of Henry's excuses to get rid of her so that he could marry Jane Seymour and have a son.  The actual reasons were that she had failed to give him a living son.  She gave him a daughter (Elizabeth I), and became pregnant a couple of times afterwards, but these babies were either stillborn or lived only a very short time.  After her last tragic birth, the Spanish Ambassador remarked that Anne had "miscarried of her saviour", and Henry himself said she would get no more children (sons) by him.  Also, he now had tired of her arrogance and tempestuousness, and had fallen in love with Jane Seymour.

Anne was also accused of witchcraft and treason - adultery by a queen was treason.  He had to get rid of her so that he could marry again legally; there had been a lot of problems previously in getting rid of Henry's first wife, Katherine of Aragon, and he only managed to have the marriage annulled, with the result that Katherine carried on living, banished to increasingly gloomy castles.  She maintained until her death that she was the King's one true wife, and that she had been a virgin when she married him.  She caused a lot of trouble in the background, and Henry needed to be able to marry Jane legallly so that there could be no doubt that she was his wife and the mother, legitimately, of his heir.  With Anne dead (as was Katherine, now), he would be a widower with no mistake.

"Interestingly, shortly before her execution on charges of adultery, the Queen's marriage to the King was dissolved and declared invalid. One would wonder then how she could have committed adultery if she had in fact never been married to the King, but this was overlooked, as were so many other lapses of logic in the charges against Anne."

http://tudorhistory.org/boleyn/

All the charges against Anne were almost certainly untrue, and were cooked up by Henry and his advisers as an excuse for executing her.

Answer 11

She was accused of incest but it was probably a trumped up charge.

Answer 12

I thought it was because she did not provide the King with a male heir so she needed to be disposed of  because he needed to remarry to have a male heir and could not divorce her because of the religious beliefs of the country.

Answer 13

he was desperate for an heir, and was receiving too much ridicule for divorcing before.

Answer 14

Although the evidence against Anne Boleyn was unconvincing, she was found guilty and beheaded on charges of adultery, incest, and high treason in 1536. Anne was accused of adultery with five men, one of whom was her brother, George, which added the charge of incest to the accusation. George Boleyn was arrested on charges of incest and treason and executed two days before Anne's own execution. He was accused of having a sexual relationship with his sister Anne over the last twelve months.

Perhaps, Anne Boleyn was innocent of some of charges laid against her like committing incest and witchcraft, however, she was surely not an angel either. At first, Henry did not want to execute Anne, he was discussing the chances of leaving Anne without having to return to Catherine. Anne, unaware of the dangerous position she was now in, presided over a magnificent court. She spent huge sums on gowns, jewels, head-dresses, ostrich-feather fans, riding equipment, and the finest furniture and upholstery from across the world. Numerous palaces were renovated to suit her extravagant tastes.

Anne really contributed much to her own downfall. Unlike Catherine of Aragon, Anne was more "politically involved" at Henry's court. She had much influence on the King, and his advisers became deeply concerned. She made a lot of enemies during her time as Queen, and was known to talk back to the King in public. She had numerous of times "embarrassed and insulted" Henry, which eventually led Henry and his adviser to come up with a plan to "get rid of her."

On the other hand, Henry and Anne were not pleased with married life. The royal couple enjoyed periods of calm and affection, but Henry's frequent infidelities greatly upset his new wife, who reacted with tears and rage to each new mistress. Catherine learned to accept Henry's escapades, while Anne's mad outbursts drove Henry literally insane.