#also i thought george didn't receive that vacancy...? he was thought to be the candidate for it which is maybe what he's getting at here.

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The party that pushed forward Jane Seymour remains rather obscure, in part because the main beneficiary of Jane's rise was her brother Edward, a man of too little influence in 1536 to have engineered Anne's destruction alone. It seems probable that the real leaders of the faction seeking to topple the Boleyns were second-ranking political figures at court.  The leading figure in terms of status was Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter, a man of high rank and noble blood but rather slim power at court. Exeter's main goal in replacing Anne with Jane Seymour seems to have been to restore Mary to the succession and halt the religious progressivism the 'Lutheran' Boleyns represented.  A less prestigious, but actually more powerful, member of the group was Nicholas Carew, Master of the Horse, a household official and royal companion. Carew was particularly angry with the Boleyns because Anne had persuaded Henry to select her brother George for a recent vacancy in the Order of the Garter which Carew coveted. He was supported by Anthony Browne, Thomas Cheney, and John Russell, all Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber. The importance of the locus of the conspiracy is shown by the status of the men destroyed with Anne, all of them (save her brother and Mark Smeaton) members of Henry's househod.

The Life of Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk (1995)