BOLEYN (BULLEN), Sir James (c.1480-1561), of Blickling, Norf.

Family and Education

b. c. 1480, 2nd s. of Sir William Boleyn of Blickling by Margaret, 2nd da. and coh. of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. m. Elizabeth, da. and coh. of John Awodde or Wood of East Barsham, Norf., d.s.p. Kntd. 1520. suc. to entailed lands of bro. Thomas, Earl of Wiltshire 1539.Date of birth estimated from that of elder brother in 1477, CP, x. 137. Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 51-53; CPR, 1494-1509, p. 445; C1/388/35; . H. Leonard, ‘Knights and Knighthood in Tudor Eng.’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1970), 309; LP Hen. VIII, ii-iv, xv.

Offices Held

J.p. Norf. 1511 – d.; commr. musters 1511, subsidy 1512, 1514, 1523, 1524, relief 1550; other commissions 1514 – 53; feodary, crown lands, Norf. Nov. 1520; under steward, duchy of Lancaster lands, Cambs., Norf., Suff. 1527; jt. clerk of peace and crown, Norf. and Suff. Mar. 1533 – ?53; chancellor, household of Queen Anne Boleyn 1533 – 36; knight of the body by 1533; steward, Bury St. Edmunds abbey, manor of Aylsham, Norf. in 1535; custos rot. Norf. 1558–60.LP Hen. VIII, i-iv, vi-viii, xi, xiii, xiv, xvi, xvii, xx; CPR, 1547–8, p. 87; 1550–3, p. 141; 1553, p. 356; 1553–4, pp. 22, 211; A. H. Smith, County and Ct., 36n; Statutes, iii. 81, 115; Somerville, Duchy, i. 595; E. Stephens, Clerks of the Counties, 137, 161; Val. Eccles. iii. 462.

Parlimentarian

BOLEYN (BULLEN), Sir James (c.1480-1561), of Blickling, Norf.

Main residence: Blickling, Norf.

Author

R.V.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

BOLEYN (BULLEN), Sir James (c.1480-1561)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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