diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION b/release-notes/VERSION
index ba6892e..a21c859 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Project: jackson-module-jaxb-annotations
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+2.6.2 (not yet released)
+
+#47: JaxbAnnotationIntrospector does not pick up 'required' property of @XmlAttribute
+ (reported by phantomjinx@github)
+
 2.6.1 (09-Aug-2015)
 2.6.0 (19-Jul-2015)
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/module/jaxb/JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.java b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/module/jaxb/JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.java
index 802d49d..4adc82c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/module/jaxb/JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/module/jaxb/JaxbAnnotationIntrospector.java
@@ -1042,8 +1042,21 @@ public boolean hasCreatorAnnotation(Annotated am) {
 
     @Override
     public Boolean hasRequiredMarker(AnnotatedMember m) {
-        XmlElement annotation = m.getAnnotation(XmlElement.class);
-        return annotation == null ? null : Boolean.valueOf(annotation.required());
+        XmlElement elem = m.getAnnotation(XmlElement.class);
+        if ((elem != null) && elem.required()) {
+            return Boolean.TRUE;
+        }
+        XmlAttribute attr = m.getAnnotation(XmlAttribute.class);
+        if ((attr != null) && attr.required()) {
+            return Boolean.TRUE;
+        }
+        // 09-Sep-2015, tatu: Not 100% sure that we should ever return `false`
+        //   here (as it blocks calls to secondary introspector), but since that
+        //   was the existing behavior before 2.6, is retained for now.
+        if ((elem != null) || (attr != null)) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return Boolean.FALSE;
     }
 
     @Override