# Alice Clere

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'''Alice, Lady Clere''' (née Boleyn) (died 1538) was the third daughter of [Sir William Boleyn](/source/William_Boleyn) and his wife Margaret Ormond (otherwise Butler), the daughter and co-heiress of [Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond](/source/Thomas_Butler%2C_7th_Earl_of_Ormond). Alice was thus the sister of [Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire](/source/Thomas_Boleyn%2C_1st_Earl_of_Wiltshire), and the aunt of [King Henry VIII's](/source/Henry_VIII_of_England) second Queen, [Anne Boleyn](/source/Anne_Boleyn).<ref>{{Harvnb|Richardson|2004|pp=35, 179}}.</ref>

==Life==
Alice married, as her second husband, [Sir Robert Clere](/source/Sir_Robert_Clere) (c. 1453 – 10 August 1529) of [Ormesby St. Margaret](/source/Ormesby_St._Margaret), [Norfolk](/source/Norfolk), the son and heir of Robert Clere and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Uvedale.<ref>{{Harvnb|Richardson|2004|p=35}}.</ref>

In 1520, she was at the [Field of the Cloth of Gold](/source/Field_of_the_Cloth_of_Gold), a knight's wife listed as "Lady Clere".<ref>[https://archive.org/details/rutlandpapersor00rutl/page/36/mode/2up ''Rutland Papers'' (London: Camden, 1842), p. 37]</ref>

In 1533, Alice and her sister, [Anne Shelton](/source/Anne_Shelton_(courtier)), were placed in charge of the household of the King's daughter, [Princess Mary](/source/Mary_I_of_England).<ref>{{Harvnb|Weir|1991|p=260}}; {{Harvnb|Richardson|2004|p=35}}</ref> Alice was also a senior member of [Princess Elizabeth's](/source/Elizabeth_I_of_England) household while she was living at [Hatfield Palace](/source/Hatfield_Palace) in [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire).{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} It has been supposed that Alice Clere was the kinder of the two guardians appointed to Mary. Anne Shelton is believed to have been harsher.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}}

Alice died on 1 November 1538, leaving a will dated 28 October 1538 which was proved 23 January 1539. Both she and her husband were buried at Ormesby St. Margaret.<ref>{{Harvnb|Richardson|2004|p=35}}.</ref> Her monument was a slab in the chancel with a brass depicting her holding a heart in her hands.<ref>John Sell Cotman & Dawson Turner, ''Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk'', 1 (London, 1838), pp. xi, 36.</ref>

==Will==
Alice Clere left the family estates to her older son [John Clere](/source/John_Clere_(died_1557)).<ref>Barbara J. Harris, ''English Aristocratic Women, 1450–1550'' (Oxford, 2002), pp. 133–34.</ref> She bequeathed him "a bed of blue damask and yellow", a "heart of gold with a large diamond in it", and "a pair of beads of gold" (a rosary). Alice Clere left her younger son [Thomas Clere](/source/Thomas_Clere) "a salt of gold with a cover having a rose in the knop, and a pair of beads of gold" set with stones which had been gifts from [Anne Boleyn](/source/Anne_Boleyn). To her niece Knyvett she left a "tablet of gold with the Salutation of Our Lady in it" with 8 rubies and 24 pearls, and she left an emerald ring to her niece Elizabeth Shelton.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/descriptivecatal05grea/page/254/mode/2up ''Descriptive catalogue of ancient deeds in the Public Record Office'', 5 (London: HMSO, 1906), p. 255, A. 12173]</ref>

==Issue==
* [John Clere](/source/John_Clere_(c._1511_%E2%80%93_1557)) (c. 1511 – 21 August 1557) of Ormesby St Margaret and Norwich, married Anne Tyrrell, the daughter of Sir Thomas Tyrrell of [Gipping](/source/Gipping), [Suffolk](/source/Suffolk)<ref>{{Harvnb|Richardson|2004|pp=35–36, 520}}.</ref>
* Richard Clere.<ref>''Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563'', 2 (Norwich, 1895), p. 267.</ref>
* [Thomas Clere](/source/Thomas_Clere) (died 1545).<ref>''Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563'', 2 (Norwich, 1895), p. 267.</ref>

==Footnotes==
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==References==
*{{Cite book |title = Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham
  |last = Richardson
  |first = Douglas
  |publisher = Genealogical Publishing Company Inc
  |location = Baltimore, Maryland
  |year = 2004
  |isbn = 9780806317502
 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=p_yzpuWi4sgC&q=plantagenet+ancestry
  |access-date = 17 March 2011
  }}
*{{Cite book |title = The Six Wives of Henry VIII
  |last = Weir
  |first = Alison
  |publisher = Grove Weidenfeld
  |location = New York
  |year = 1991
  }}

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