Elizabeth Cheney Facts
Known for: great-grandmother of three wives of Henry VIII: Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and Catherine Howard
Occupation: English nobility
Dates: about 1422 or 1428 - September 25, 1473
Background, Family:
- Mother: Elizabeth Cockayne
- Father: Sir Laurence Cheney, sheriff of Cambridge
- Siblings: Anne, Mary, Catherine, Sir John Cheney and two half-brothers
Marriage, Children:
- husband: Sir Frederick Tilney (died 1447)
- daughter: Elizabeth Tilney
- Sir John Saye (died 1478)
- daughters Anne Saye (mother of Margaret Wentworth who was the mother of Jane Seymour) and Mary Saye
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