Short answers, pulled from the story.
Sir Geoffrey Boleyn died on the 17th of June 1463 in his home on Milk Street within the City of London. He left one hundred pounds to create a new rood-loft for St Lawrence church and is buried beside his son Thomas Boleyn in St Lawrence Old Jewry.
Geoffrey Boleyn arrived in London as an apprentice hatter during the early 1420s and gained freedom of the City through the Company of Hatters in 1428. He shifted focus to mercery, petitioned the Court of Aldermen to join the senior livery company in 1435 or 1436, and served as Sheriff of London from 1446 to 1447 before becoming Master of the Mercers' Company by 1454.
Sir John Fastolf sold the manor of Blickling Hall near Aylsham to Geoffrey Boleyn in 1452, and he purchased Hever Castle in Kent from Sir Thomas Cobham in 1462. Work on opening the castle included inserting cinquefoil cusped lights under square hood moulds and building the chapel of St Thomas at the east end of the north aisle with beautiful painted glass adorned with his arms impaling his wife's.
The stone slab in Salle Church depicts his parents as an elder Geoffrey and Alice Bracton who died around 1440. His second marriage united him with Anne Hoo who lived from 1424 to 1484, and they had two sons including Sir William Boleyn and three daughters named Isabel, Alice, and Anne.
The lineage traces directly from Geoffrey Boleyn to Queen Anne Boleyn through his son Sir William. That daughter became the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, establishing a direct line that transformed the family from provincial gentry into royal connections over two generations.