Anne Hoo
Lady Anne Boleyn was an English noblewoman, noted for being the great grandmother of Anne Boleyn and therefore the maternal great-great grandmother of Elizabeth I of England. She was the only child of Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings, and his first wife Elizabeth Wychingham. She married Sir Geoffrey Boleyn in c.1445.
Early life and family
Anne was born 1424 into the Hoo family, was the only child and co-heiress to Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings, and his first wife, Elizabeth Wychingham. Her father was created Baron of Hoo and Hastings in 1445 which brought more importance to her family.She was the only child to her father's first marriage. However, she later had three half sisters from her father's second marriage to Eleanor Welles, the daughter of Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, and his first wife, Joan Waterton. Her half sisters were:
- Anne Hoo the younger, married
- * Roger Copley, Esquire, Citizen and mercer of London, of Roughey in Horsham, Sussex, by whom she had issue.
- * William Greystoke, Gentleman, of London and St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, They had no issue.
- *? Sir Thomas Fiennes. Had no issue.
- Eleanor Hoo, who married
- * Thomas Echingham, son and heir of Sir Thomas Echingham. Had no issue.
- * Sir James Carew of Beddington, Surrey. Had one son, Richard.
- Elizabeth Hoo, who married
- * Thomas Massingberd, citizen and Mercer of London, and
- * Sir John Devenish of Horselunges manor, Hellingly.
Marriage and issue
She married in 1445 in Salle, Norfolk to Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, mercer and Lord Mayor of London:. He was the son of an elder Geoffrey Boleyn and his wife Alice, née Bracton. The marriage produced five known children:- Thomas Boleyn, of the City of London. Never married. Buried in the Church of St Lawrence Old Jewry, beside his father.
- Sir William Boleyn, married Lady Margaret Butler, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, by whom he had issue including Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire and was therefore the grandfather to Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, King of England.
- Isabel Boleyn, married William Cheyney and had no issue.
- Alice Boleyn, married Sir John Fortescue of Ponsborne Park Newgate Street, Hertfordshire and had issue.
- Anne Boleyn, married Sir Henry Heydon of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk and had issue.