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View Tree for Henry Henry "6th Lord of Boketon" De Grene (b. 1310, d. 1370)

Henry "6th Lord of Boketon" De Grene (son of Thomas "5th Lord of Boketon" De Grene and Lucy "Lady of Boketon" De La Zouche) was born 1310 in County Northampton, ENGLAND, and died 1370 in Greene's Norton, County Northampshire, ENGLAND. He married Katherine "Lady of Boketon" de Drayton on 1335 in Broughton, County Dorset, ENGLAND, daughter of John "Lord of Drayton Hall" de Drayton and Phillippa "Lady" D'Arderne.

 Includes NotesNotes for Henry "6th Lord of Boketon" De Grene:
Event: Note BET. 1340 - 1341 He received from Thomas de Boketon and his wife Joanna the manors of Brampton and Boketon.
Event: Note 1358 Excommunicated by the Pope for pronouncing judgement against the bishop of Ely.
Event: Title (Facts Pg) Sir Henry de Greene, Lord of Broughton
Event: Title (Facts Pg) 1345 He was Sergeant-at-Law at England.
Event: Title (Facts Pg) 1354 Justice of the King's Bench at England
Event: Title (Facts Pg) BET. 24 MAY 1361 - 28 OCT 1365 Chief Justice of England (appt. by King Edward III)
Event: Title (Facts Pg) BET. 1363 - 1364 Speaker of the House of Lords in two Parliaments
PROP: 1359 Purchased Norton Davey for 20 shillings, name became Greene's Norton 1 2 3 4
Event: Tax List 1334 Hundred of Chetham (Chatham) and Gillyngham (Gillingham), paid 3 shillings tax
Event: Tax List 1334 Hundred of Schamele (Shamwell), paid 1 shilling tax "Henry de Grene"
Note:
In King Edward the III's reign (1327-1377), Sir Henry Greene (1310-1370)
obtained for himself and his heirs the grant of a fair to be held yearly
for three days beginning on the vigil of St. John the Baptist. Since that
time down to the middle of the nineteenth century this fair was held up
on the spacious green which gave name to the Greene family.


[1580] Lord Chief-Justice of England in 1353;
he was Speaker of the House of Lords in two Parliaments (1363-64) and
became last of the Kings nearest Counsel. [State Cabinet]
[1581] Another source gives his dates as Chief Justice as: 24 May 1361-
28 Oct 1365
Sir Henry was granted a charter from the King to establish Boughton Fir,
A Virgil for St John the Baptist. I was held June 24,25,26. This fair was
second only to the London Fair in its time. The Boughton Fair survived
five and one-half centuries.
[1582] 1340/1: He received from Thomas de Boketon and his wife Joanna the
manors of Brampton and Boketon.
1353: Lord Chief Justice of England under Edward III.
1363-4: Speaker of the House of Lords Greene's Norton: Sir Henry
"reentailed" so that his second son could inherit them. A special license
was given by the King so he could do so. Thomas, the eldest, received
Boughton, and Henry, the second son received Greene's Norton.
[1583] Source: Lora S. La Mance, p 17, 19; Americana, Illustrated, p 706;
Haydn's Book of Dignities, p 369
Sir Henry de Greene, the foremost lawyer of his day, was a counselor to
King Edward III. Sir Henry's rank would not allow him to plead before the
bar, but he put all of his mental acumen and legal knowledge at his
king's command, and the king was deeply attached to him. Sir Henry and
the Earl of Oxford were commissioned by King Edward III to examine
certain abuses in the Dioces of Canterbury. In 1345, he was appointed
Sergeant-at-law. He was much employed, and in special trust and authority
over the ministers the King left to govern the land during the long wars
with France. The king, in recognition of his integrity, wisdom, and other
abilities, knighted him in 1353 and promoted him to the office of Justice
at the Court of Common Pleas. He was raised to the office of Lord Chief
Justice of England and served in that office from 1361 to 1365. He was
Speaker of the House of Lords in two Parliaments (1363-64), and became at
last a member of the king's nearest counsel (State Cabinet).

One of his enterprises was the establishment of a fair, held each year
upon the spacious green at Boughton. The three-day fair was held on the
"vigil, day, and morrow" of the Day of Saint John the Baptist, 24-26 June
each year. The Boughton fair became second only to the London fair in
importance. Noblemen brought their horses and stock for exhibition,
racing, and sale. Silk merchants, sword cutlers, armor makers, jewelers,
saddlers, wig-makers, carvers, and marble workers sold their wares. There
were feats of tumbling, wrestling, stilt walking, and sword fencing.
There were merry-andrews, buffoons and clowns, "wanglers in verse" (poets
who fitted rhymes while their patrons waited), and musicians who played
harp, fife, and flute. There were eating booths and gingerbread stalls,
and shows of giants, dwarfs, double-headed calves, and wild beasts. This
fair was a boon to all Northampton, and also helped to fill the coffers
of the Lord of the Green.

In 1359, Sir Henry gave 20 shillings for license to purchase the manor of
Norton Davey. From his name, the manor was thereafter called Green's
Norton.

Sir Henry died possessed of his ancient and beloved manor of Boughton,
the manors of Greene's Norton, East Neaston, Heydmon Court, Heybourn,
Ashley Mares, and Dodington. He had lands in Whittlebury, Paulsbury,
Northampton, Harringworth, Cottingham, Middleton, Carleton, Isham,
Aldwinckle, Pishteley, Titchmarch, Warrington, and sundry other places,
and was the Lord of Drayton, Luffwich, Pesford, Islip, Shipton, Walston,
Womingdom, Chalton, Haughton, and Boteshaseall.

According to English law, the title and estate should have been the
oldest son's, but, like Jacob loved Joseph in the Old Testament, Sir
Henry favored his second son above all the rest. With the older son's
consent, and through a special license from King Richard II, all of Sir
Henry's estate except for the manor's of Boughton and Greene's Norton
were passed to Sir Henry's second son, Henry.

SOURCE: "Colonial Families of America" by McKenzie, Volumes I and II



More About Henry "6th Lord of Boketon" De Grene:
Date born 2: 1310
Burial: St. John the Baptist Cemetery, Greenes Norton, County Northampshire, ENGLAND.

More About Henry "6th Lord of Boketon" De Grene and Katherine "Lady of Boketon" de Drayton:
Marriage: 1335, Broughton, County Dorset, ENGLAND.

Children of Henry "6th Lord of Boketon" De Grene and Katherine "Lady of Boketon" de Drayton are:
  1. Agnes Margaret "Lady of Harringworth" De Grene, b. 1341.
  2. Thomas "Lord of Greene's Norton" De Grene, b. 1344.
  3. +Henry "Lord of Drayton" De Grene, b. 1352, Greene's Norton, County Northampshire, ENGLAND, d. September 02, 1399, London, County Middlesex, ENGLAND.
  4. Amabilia De Grene, b. 1358.
  5. Walter De Grene, b. 1360.
  6. +Walter De Grene, b. Abt. 1360, Boughton (Boketon), County Northampton, ENGLAND, d. Bet. 1380 - 1460, Bridgenorth, County Shropshire, ENGLAND.
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