Yes, according to a poem.
From the story in The Telegraph...
The king's second wife was beheaded after being charged with having affairs with five men, one of them her own brother.
However, a French poem written days after her death in 1536 has cast doubt over claims by historians that she was framed by supporters of the first queen, Catherine of Aragon, or that Henry made up the claims because he was not provided with a son.
Professor George Bernard, an expert on the Tudors, said the 1,000 line poem, written by Lancelot de Carles, secretary to the French ambassador to England, names three of Boleyn's lovers - musician Mark Smeaton, Henry Norris, a courtier who was head of the king's chamber and her brother, George Boleyn.
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If you were going to frame the sitting Queen, it seems a little overboard to claim incest as part of it.
I've always wondered what kind of evidence they had. Back then, it had to been something seen.
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