Geoffrey Boleyn
Sir Geoffrey Boleyn (1406–1463) was a London merchant and Lord Mayor.
Life
Geoffrey Boleyn, the son of Sir Thomas Boleyn and Alice Bracton, was a wealthy London mercer. He served as a Sheriff of London in 1447, as alderman of the City of London in 1452, and Lord Mayor of London in 1457/8,[1] and was knighted by King Henry VI.[2] He purchased the manor of Blickling in Norfolk from Sir John Fastolf in 1452, and Hever Castle in Kent in 1462.[2]
Siblings
- Cecily (1408-58)
- Thomas
- William
- John
Marriage and issue
Sir Geoffrey Boleyn married Anne Hoo, the only child of Sir Thomas Hoo (d. 13 February 1455) by his first wife Elizabeth Wychingham, and they had:
- Sir Thomas Boleyn (d. 1471/2)
- Sir William Boleyn (d.1505), mercer, who married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond.[3]
- Isabella (1434-85) who married William Cheney (1453-87)
- Alice Boleyn b.abt.1438
- Anne Boleyn b.abt.1440 married Henry Heydon
- Cecily Boleyn b.abt.1442
- Simon Boleyn b.abt.1447 d.Aug. 3, 1482
- Elizabeth Boleyn b.abt.1459
Sir Geoffrey Boleyn died in 1471.[2] He and his wife Anne were the great-grandparents of Queen Anne Boleyn.
References
- Cokayne, George Edward (1949). The Complete Peerage, edited by Geoffrey H. White. XI. London: St. Catherine Press. p. 51.
- Cokayne, George Edward (1945). The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday. X. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 137–142.
- Hughes, Jonathan (2007). Boleyn, Thomas, earl of Wiltshire and earl of Ormond (1476/7–1539), courtier and nobleman. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/2/101002795/. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
- Ives, E.W. (2004). Anne (Anne Boleyn) (c.1500–1536), queen of England, second consort of Henry VIII. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/0/101000557/. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
- Richardson, Douglas (2004). Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company Inc. ISBN 9780806317502. http://books.google.com/?id=p_yzpuWi4sgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=plantagenet+ancestry#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
- Weir, Alison (1991). The Six Wives of Henry VIII. New York: Grove Weidenfeld. p. 145.
External links
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Boleyn, Geoffrey, Sir |
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Lord Mayor of London, 1457/8 |
| Date of birth |
1406 |
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| Date of death |
1463 |
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