Sir Geoffrey Boleyn 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

Lord Mayor of London

The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of the City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and...

 in 1457/8, and was knighted by King Henry VI

Henry VI of England

Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realm was governed by regents. Contemporaneous accounts described him as peaceful and pious, not suited for the violent dynastic civil wars, known as the Wars...

. He purchased the manor of Blickling

Blickling

Blickling is a village and civil parish in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England, about north-west of Aylsham on the B1354 road. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 136 and covers . Since the 17th century the village has been concentrated in two areas, around the church and...

 in Norfolk from Sir John Fastolf in 1452, and Hever Castle

Hever Castle

Hever Castle is located in the village of Hever near Edenbridge, Kent, south-east of London, England. It began as a country house, built in the 13th century...

 in Kent

Kent

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 in 1462.

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
  William Boleyn
  Sir William Boleyn was the son of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, a wealthy mercer and Lord Mayor of London, and his wife, Anne Hoo...
  
   (d.1505), mercer, who married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond.
• 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. He and his wife Anne were the great-grandparents of Queen Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the...

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External links

• http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/BoleynTree.html