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Elizabeth I's family tree: a mother beheaded when she was two.

Elizabeth I was born on 7 September 1533 in Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and died on 24 March 1603 in Richmond, London, at 69. The FamilySearch Family Tree has her as Elizabeth.

Elizabeth, born in Palace of Placentia, GreenwichElizabeth1533–1603Henry VIII, born in Palace of Placentia, KentHenry VIII1491–1547Anne Boleyn, born in Blickling, NorfolkAnne Boleyn1501–1536Henry VII, born in Pembroke Castle, PembrokeshireHenry VII1457–1509Elizabeth of York, born in Westminster Palace, EnglandElizabeth of York1466–1503Thomas Boleyn, born in Blickling, NorfolkThomas Boleyn1477–1539Elizabeth Howard, born in Norfolk, EnglandElizabeth Howard1480–1538Edmund Tudor, born in Much Hadham, HertfordshireEdmund Tudor1430–1456Margaret Beaufort, born in Bletsoe Castle, BedfordshireMargaret Beaufort1443–1509Edward IV of England, born in Rouen, Haute-NormandieEdward IV of England1442–1483Elizabeth Woodville, born in Grafton Regis, NorthamptonshireElizabeth Woodville1437–1492William Boleyn, born in Blickling, NorfolkWilliam Boleyn1451–1505Lady Margaret Butler, born in Kilkenny, County KilkennyLady Margaret Butler1454–1540Thomas Howard, born in Stoke by Nayland, SuffolkThomas Howard1443–1524Elisabeth Tilney, born in Ashwellthorpe, NorfolkElisabeth Tilney1445–1497Owen Tudor, born in Isle of Anglesey, WalesOwen Tudor1400–1461Catherine of France, born in Paris, FranceCatherine of France1401–1437John II Beaufort, born in Twickenham, MiddlesexJohn II Beaufort1404–1444Margaret Beauchamp, born in Bletsoe, BedfordshireMargaret Beauchamp1410–1482Richard of York, born in Conisbrough Castle, YorkshireRichard of York1411–1460Cecily Neville, born in Raby Castle, DurhamCecily Neville1415–1495Richard Woodville, born in La Mote, KentRichard Woodville1412–1469Jacquetta of Luxembourg, born in St Pole sur, BourgogneJacquetta of Luxembourg1416–1472Geoffrey Boleyn, born in Salle, NorfolkGeoffrey Boleyn1406–1463Anne Hoo, born in Blickling, NorfolkAnne Hoo1424–1485Thomas Butler, born in KilkennyThomas Butler1426–1515Anne Hankeford, born in Cornwall, EnglandAnne Hankeford1428–1485John Howard, born in Suffolk, EnglandJohn Howard1421–1485Catharine De Moleyns Howard, born in Stoke Poges, BuckinghamshireCatharine De Moleyns Ho…1424–1465Frederick Tilney, born in Norfolk, EnglandFrederick Tilney1416–1447Elizabeth Cheney, born in Fen Ditton, CambridgeshireElizabeth Cheney1422–1473
Five generations, as the FamilySearch Family Tree has them: 30 of the 30 places filled. Each name opens that person's page on FamilySearch.
Elizabeth, born in Palace of Placentia, GreenwichElizabeth1533–1603Henry VIII, born in Palace of Placentia, KentHenry VIII1491–1547Anne Boleyn, born in Blickling, NorfolkAnne Boleyn1501–1536Henry VII, born in Pembroke Castle, PembrokeshireHenry VII1457–1509Elizabeth of York, born in Westminster Palace, EnglandElizabeth of …1466–1503Thomas Boleyn, born in Blickling, NorfolkThomas Boleyn1477–1539Elizabeth Howard, born in Norfolk, EnglandElizabeth How…1480–1538
Three generations, as the FamilySearch Family Tree has them: 6 of the 6 places filled. Each name opens that person's page on FamilySearch.

Elizabeth I's family, year by year.

  1. 1533Palace of Placentia, GreenwichOn 7 September 1533, Elizabeth I is born to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
  2. 1534London, EnglandHer mother's pregnancy ends in miscarriage.
  3. 1535London, EnglandHer mother's pregnancy ends in miscarriage.
  4. 1536London, EnglandOn 29 January 1536, a brother is stillborn.
  5. 1536Tower of London, MiddlesexOn 19 May 1536, her mother, Anne Boleyn, dies. She is 2.
  6. 1536Saint James's Palace, LondonOn 23 July 1536, her half-brother Henry FitzRoy dies. She is 2.
  7. 1547Palace of Whitehall, LondonOn 28 January 1547, her father, Henry VIII, dies. She is 13.
  8. 1553Westminster Abbey, MiddlesexOn 6 July 1553, her half-brother Edward VI King of England dies. She is 19.
  9. 1558Saint James's Palace, EnglandOn 17 November 1558, her half-sister Queen Mary I of England dies. She is 25.
  10. 1603Richmond, LondonOn 24 March 1603, Elizabeth I dies at 69.

Children.

Elizabeth I never married and had no children. With her death in 1603 the Tudor line ended, and the crown passed to James VI of Scotland, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Where the lines came from.

Up her father's line: Henry VIII, her father, born 1491 in Palace of Placentia, Kent; Henry VII, her grandfather, born 1457 in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire; Edmund Tudor, her great-grandfather, born 1430 in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire; Owen Tudor, her 2nd great-grandfather, born 1400 in Isle of Anglesey, Wales; Maredudd Tudur, her 3rd great-grandfather, born 1365 in Penmynydd, Anglesey; Tudor Gronwy Fychan Ap Gronwy, her 4th great-grandfather, born 1314 in Peniarth, Merionethshire; Gronwy "Fychan" Ap Gronwy, her 5th great-grandfather, born 1275 in Penmynydd, Anglesey.

Up her mother's line: Anne Boleyn, her mother, born 1501 in Blickling, Norfolk; Thomas Boleyn, her grandfather, born 1477 in Blickling, Norfolk; William Boleyn, her great-grandfather, born 1451 in Blickling, Norfolk; Geoffrey Boleyn, her 2nd great-grandfather, born 1406 in Salle, Norfolk; Geoffrey Boleyn, her 3rd great-grandfather, born 1380 in Salle, Norfolk; Thomas Boleyn, her 4th great-grandfather, born 1350 in Salle, Norfolk; John Boleyn, her 5th great-grandfather, born 1300 in Salle, Norfolk; Nicholas Boleyn, her 6th great-grandfather, born 1270 in Salle, Norfolk.

The family as the FamilySearch Family Tree holds it: 428 people, 427 of them her ancestors. The earliest on her direct line is Lord Of Chapperley Manor William De Cloptone, born 1240 in Wickhambrook, Suffolk.

What history says.

Her mother, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded at the Tower of London on 19 May 1536, when Elizabeth was two years and eight months old.Tower Green and the scaffold site, Historic Royal Palaces
"Her chances of succeeding to the throne seemed very slight once her half-brother Edward was born in 1537." She succeeded to the throne on her half-sister Mary's death in November 1558, and "chose never to marry."Elizabeth I, The Royal Family
"The end of the Tudor line with the death of the 'Virgin Queen' in 1603 brought about the Union of the Crowns with Scotland": James VI of Scotland, the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, became James I of England.English Monarchs and James VI and I, The Royal Family

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From the FamilySearch Family Tree, read on 7 November 2026: 428 people around Elizabeth I, up to eight generations back and two down. Thanks to everyone who has added to it. The tree is its contributors' work; where it and history differ, this page says so and names the source. Everyone named on this page has died.