Knight of the Bath William Boleyn

1451 - 1505  (54 years)

• Name	William Boleyn  [1, 2, 3]
  Title	Knight of the Bath
  Birth	1451	Blickling, Norfolk, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk
  Death	10 Oct 1505	Hever, Kent, England   [3]
  Burial	Norwich, Norfolk, England   [3]
  	Norwich Cathedral
  Person ID	I22629	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Lord Mayor of London Geoffrey Boleyn,   b. 1406, Blickling, Norfolk, England d. 1462, London, England (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Anne Hoo,   b. 1410, Blickling, Norfolk, England d. 6 Jun 1484, Norwich, Norfolk, England (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1425	Salle, Norfolk, England
  Family ID	F9057	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Butler,   b. 1454, Kilkenny County, Ireland d. 1539, Hever, Kent, England (Age 85 years)
  Children	1. 1st Earl of Wiltshire Sir Thomas Boleyn,   b. 1477, Blickling, Norfolk, England d. 12 Mar 1539, Kent, England (Age 62 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F8898	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1451 - Blickling, Norfolk, England Death - 10 Oct 1505 - Hever, Kent, England Burial - - Norwich, Norfolk, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia

  Arms-Crest of Knight of the Bath Knights of the Bath - These were special knighthoods conferred on important Royal occasions such as coronations, a practice which had died after the reign of Charles II. These knighthoods predate the modern Order of the Bath. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Knights_of_the_Bath

  
  

  Old World

  _William Boylen Sir William Boleyn, KB (1451 – 10 Oct 1505) of Blickling Hall in Norfolk and Hever Castle in Kent, was a wealthy and powerful landowner who served as Sheriff of Kent in 1489 and as Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1500. He was the father of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, whose daughter was Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry…

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees. [S164] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2004;), Source number: ; Source type: ; Number of Pages: ; Submitter Code: . [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, William Boleyn 1451-1505. Sir William Boleyn, a son of Geoffry Boleyn and Anne Hoo, Sir William Boleyn was born at Bickling Hall, Norfolk, England. He married Lady Margaret Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormonde. They had ten children, among them Anne Boleyn (1475-1556, m. Sir John Shelton) and Sir Thomas Boleyn (m. Lady Elizabeth Howard). Sir William was, therefore, the paternal grandfather of Queen Anne Boleyn (d.1536) and great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32329893/william-boleyn