Paternal Family Tree: Boleyn
Before 1406 [his father] Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 25] and [his mother] Alice Bracton [aged 20] were married. They were first cousins.
In 1406 Geoffrey Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 26] and Alice Bracton [aged 21]. Coefficient of inbreeding 3.12%.
In 1434 [his daughter] Isabella Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 28] and [his future wife] Ann Hoo [aged 9] at Blickling, Norfolk. She married (1) Henry Aucher (2) William Cheney and had issue.
Around 1438 [his daughter] Alice Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 32] and [his future wife] Ann Hoo [aged 13]. She married in or before 1476 John Fortescue and had issue.
Around 1440 [his daughter] Anne Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 34] and [his future wife] Ann Hoo [aged 15]. She married before December 1465 Henry Heydon and had issue.
On 25th March 1440 [his father] Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 60] died. Around 1414 [his mother] Alice Bracton died. Memorial brass in the floor of the nave of Church of St Peter and St Paul, Salle [Map]. It originally also had tiny figures representing their 5 sons and 4 daughters, but the inlay is lost. Inscription: "Hic jacet Galfrid. Boleyn qui obt. 25 die mensis Martij 1440, et Alicie, uxor. ejus, et pueror. suorum, quorum a'i'ab; &c. Label: Dominus propitius esto nobis peccatorib". ie "Here lies Geoffrey Boleyn who died the 25th day of the month of March A.D. 1440, and Alice, his wife, and children, on whose souls may God have mercy Amen"
Geoffrey Boleyn: Around 1380 he was born to Thomas Boleyn and Anne Jane Bracton. Before 1406 Geoffrey Boleyn and Alice Bracton were married. They were first cousins. In 1408 Geoffrey Boleyn provided timber for the building of Church of St Peter and St Paul, Salle [Map]. The church was paid for by four Lords of the manor, Geoffrey Boleyn, Thomas Brigge, Thomas Roos and an unknown person, with newly acquired wealth from the wool trade.
Alice Bracton: Around 1385 she was born to John Bracton at Salle, Norfolk.
Before 1442 Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 35] and Ann Hoo [aged 16] were married.
Around 1442 [his daughter] Cecily Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 36] and [his wife] Ann Hoo [aged 17].
Around 1442 [his son] Thomas Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 36] and [his wife] Ann Hoo [aged 17].
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Around 1447 [his son] Simon Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 41] and [his wife] Ann Hoo [aged 22].
In 1451 [his son] William Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 45] and [his wife] Ann Hoo [aged 26] at Blickling, Norfolk. He married 1465 Margaret Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde and Anne Hankford Countess Ormonde, and had issue.
Chronicle of Gregory. 1457. Mayor: Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 51]. Sheriffs: Reyner, Edwar.
In 1457 Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 51] was appointed Lord Mayor of London.
Around 1459 [his daughter] Elizabeth Boleyn was born to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 53] and [his wife] Ann Hoo [aged 34].
Before 5th November 1459 Blickling Hall, Norfolk [Map] was in the possession of John Fastolf [aged 79].
John Fastolf sold it to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 53] who made it his country seat.
The estate passed to [his granddaughter] Alice Boleyn who married [his grandson-in-law] Robert Clere [aged 13]. Their grandson Edward Clere ran into debt and sold the estate to Henry Hobart 1st Baronet.
Patent Rolls. 25th July 1461. Westminster Palace [Map]. Exemption for life of Geoffrey Boleyne [aged 55], alderman of London, for his good service to the king's father, from being put on assizes, juries, inquisitions, attaints or recognisances and dfrom being made trier of them, taxer, collector, or assesor of customs, taxes, tallages, fifteenths, tenths or other subsidies, knight, major, sheriff, escheator, commissioner, constable, sheriff, bailiff or other officer or minister of the king against his will. By p.s.
In 1462 Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 56] purchased Hever Castle, Kent [Map] from the Cobham family.
In 1462 William Fiennes 2nd Baron Saye and Sele [aged 34] sold Hever Castle, Kent [Map] to Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 56] to pay for his building programme at Broughton, Oxfordshire.
In 1463 Geoffrey Boleyn [aged 57] died. He was buried at St Lawrence Jewry. His son William Boleyn [aged 12] inherited Hever Castle, Kent [Map].
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On 6th June 1484 [his former wife] Ann Hoo [aged 59] died.
Thomas Fiennes and Ann Hoo were married.
Grandfather: Thomas Boleyn 
father: Geoffrey Boleyn
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Bracton
Grandmother: Anne Jane Bracton
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Bracton
Grandfather: John Bracton
mother: Alice Bracton