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Arms (dated 1506) of Sir Thomas Boleyn, KB, KG (later Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire) (c.1477-1539), stained glass, Hever Castle, Kent. Arms, quarterly of 5:

• 1: Argent, a chevron gules between three bull's heads afrontée sable (Canting arms of Boleyn (ancient))
• 2: Or, a chief indented azure (Butler / Boleyn (modern)), being arms of Walter (Butler (ancient)) adopted at the start of the age of heraldry by w:Theobald Walter, 1st Chief Butler of Ireland (fl.1194). These arms are borne in the first quarter of the arms of the Butler family, Marquess of Ormonde (the "cup" arms of Butler are borne in the 2nd) reflecting that family's descent in the male line from Theobald Walter. (Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.864). Later adopted as "modern arms" by Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond (whose maternal grandfather was Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde) in lieu of his paternal arms.
• 3: Quarterly sable and argent (Hoo), for his grandmother Anne Hoo (1424–1484), the wife of Sir w:Geoffrey Boleyn (1406–1463) and the only child and heiress of Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings (c.1396–1455), a Knight of the Garter, by his first wife Elizabeth Wychingham, a daughter of Sir Nicholas Wychingham.
• 4: Argent, a lion rampant sable (Walkfare ?) a Hoo heiress; Sir Thomas Hoo (c.1370-1420) of Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire (son of Sir William Hoo (1335–1410) and his first wife Alice de St Omer) married firstly Eleanor de Felton (c. 1361-1400), the widow of Sir Robert de Ufford, de jure Lord Clavering (died c. 1393)), and the youngest of the three daughters of Sir Thomas de Felton (died 1381), of Litcham in Norfolk, Seneschal of Aquitaine, by his wife Joan Walkfare. (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1066: Or/argent, a lion rampant sable "Walkfare of Norfolk")
• 5: Azure, a fess between six cross-crosslets or (St Omer, a Hoo heiress - Sir William Hoo (1335–1410) married Alice de St Omer, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas de St Omer (of Mulbarton, near Norwich in Norfolk) and his first wife Petronilla (Pernell) Malemayns)