Geoffrey Boleyn

Arms of the Boleyn family.

Sir Geoffrey or Jeffery Boleyn (1406–1463) was a London merchant and Lord Mayor of London.

Life

Hever Castle.
Blickling Hall as it is today.

Geoffrey Boleyn was the son of Geoffrey Boleyn (d. 1440) yeoman of Salle, Norfolk, and Alice,[1] and grandson of Thomas Boleyn (d. 1411) of Salle and Anne, an heiress, daughter of Sir John Bracton, a Norfolk knight. He went to London, was apprenticed to a hatter, and became a freeman of the city through the Hatter’s Company in 1428. In 1429 he transferred to a grander livery company, the Mercers’ Company, of which he became master in 1454.[2] As a wealthy mercer he served as a Sheriff of London in 1447, as member of parliament for the city in 1449, as alderman in 1452, and Lord Mayor of London in 1457/8,[3] and was knighted[4] by King Henry VI.[5] He purchased the manor of Blickling in Norfolk from Sir John Fastolf in 1452, and Hever Castle in Kent in 1462.[5]

He was buried in the church of St Lawrence Jewry in the City of London.[5]

Siblings

The brasses of five sons and four daughters were still in situ in Salle's parish church in 1730.[6][7]

Relatives

According to British historian and author, Elizabeth Norton, Geoffrey Boleyn who died in 1440 was their great-uncle.[16]

Marriage and issue

Boleyn married Anne Hoo (1424 - 1484), the only child of Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings (d. 13 February 1455), by his first wife Elizabeth Wychingham, by whom he had two sons and five daughters:

Sir Geoffrey Boleyn died in 1471.[5] He and his wife Anne were the great-grandparents of Queen Anne Boleyn.[19]

Arms of Geoffrey Boleyn

The arms are Boleyn, Argent, a chevron gules,between three bulls heads couped Sable, quarterly with arms of Bracton, Azure, three mullets, a chief dauncette or.[note 3]

See also

Notes

  1. William settled in Lincolnshire and died in 1427, he is the ancestor of the Lincolnshire branch,[9] English antiquarian William Stukeley was a member of the same family on his mother side.[10]
  2. Son of Thomas Roos (died 12 October 1440),[13] a prosperous merchant who built the north transept chapel and like the Boleyns of Salle, was a member of the Guild of the Holy Trinity (An amalgamation of the Guilds of St Mary, St John and St Catherine) of Coventry[14]
  3. Coat of arms of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London, 1457.[20]

Notes

  1. Franklyn, Charles Aubrey Hamilton, The Genealogy of Anne the Quene, 1977
  2. Franklyn, op. cit.
  3. Beavan, The Aldermen of London, p. 17
  4. "Six Wives", by David Starkey, published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2003, p.257
  5. 1 2 3 4 Weir, p. 145.
  6. "Salle, The Story of a Norfolk Parish, its Church, Manors and People", by Walter Langley Edward Parsons, published by Jarrold and sons, 1937, p.42
  7. "An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk", by Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin, volume VIII p.275.
  8. 1 2 "The publications of the Harleian Society, the visitation of Norfolk", edited by Walter Rye, London 1891, volume XXXII, p.52
  9. "An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk", by Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin, volume VI p.386.
  10. "Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, Comprizing Biographical Memoirs" of William Bowyer, by John Nichols, printed by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, London 1812, volume V p.499
  11. "Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College, Boleyn pedigree p.18"
  12. "Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk ", by John Sell Cotman and Samuel Rush Meyrick, volume I p.23
  13. "An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk", by Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin, volume VIII p.275.
  14. "Religion and the Early Modern State, views from Russia, China, and the West", by James D.Tracy and Marguerite Ragnow, published by Cambridge University Press, p.326
  15. "Salle, The Story of a Norfolk Parish, its Church, Manors and People", by Walter Langley Edward Parsons, published by Jarrold and sons, 1937, p.149.
  16. "The Boleyn Women", by Elizabeth Norton, published by Amberley Publishing 2013, chapter 1, Norfolk Origins.
  17. Richardson 2004, pp. 178–179.
  18. Moreton 2004.
  19. Hamilton, op. cit
  20. "The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time", by Bernard Burke, published by Harrison and Sons in London, 1884, p.96

References

External links

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Elizabeth Norton, 2013. The Boleyn Women, Amberley Publishing
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