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Anne Boleyn: Life and Afterlives

Not Just the Tudors

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What Was Anne Boleyn Convicted Of?

The charges of adultery, incest and treason are the charges that she was charged with. So no witchcraft. You'll notice the way the language has evolved over the centuries also causes quite a bit of confusion,. But sortilege is a word that was used a chapy, suggested that henry had told somebody that his marriage had been made using charms and spells. This could just have been referring to the fact that henry was talking about his heirs and in terms of divinity, and had been suggested was going to happen in his marriage. And so there was this scepticism. There were rumours about jane seymour. And too many people think that everyone believed that anne bolen

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