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Thomas "5th Lord of Boketon" De Grene (son of Thomas "4th Lord of Boketon" Grene De Boketon and Alice "Lady of Boketon" Bottisham) was born 1288 in Boughton, County Northampton, ENGLAND, and died 1352 in Boughton (Boketon), County Northampton. He married Lucy "Lady of Boketon" De La Zouche on October 23, 1297 in County Northamptonshire, ENGLAND, daughter of Eudo (Eon) De La Zouche and Millicent de Cantilupe.

 Includes NotesNotes for Thomas "5th Lord of Boketon" De Grene:
Event: Title (Facts Pg) Sir, Lord of Broughton, 5th Baron Lord de Grene
Event: Title (Facts Pg) High Sherriff of Northampton in the early part of the reign of Edward III.
Occupation: 1320 Lord of the Manors of Boughton (Boketon)
Occupation: BET. 1330 - 1332 High Sheriff of Northampton 1 2 3 4
Event: Name 2 Thomas de GRENE
Event: Tax List 1334 Lathe of Eyllesford (Aylesford), Hundred of Hoo
Event: Member BET. 1336 - 1343 He was Member of Parliament at Northamptonshire, England.
Note:
Sir Thomas Greene succeeded to the estates in 1320, becoming Lord of the
Manors of Boughton and Norton. He was a member of Parliament from County
Northampton in 1323, 1336, 1338, and 1343. He was High Sheriff of
Northampton in 1330, 1331, 1334, 1335, and 1343. Of this office, Halstead
says, "The office was not as in these days, but esteemed equal to the
care of Princes, an office of great trust and reputation, and justly
esteemed honos sine onere."

According to Halstead, this Sir Thomas was the son of Sir Thomas de
Boketon and took the name, de Grene, after acquiring the manor of
Boughton. The family name of Greene (originally spelled de Grene) does
not appear in England until after the Norman Conquest. However, the name
Grini or del Grini appears in the counties of York and Northampton prior
to the Conquest, which would suggest a Latin origin. Also, in
Scandinavia, there was a family by the name Gren, and possibly that name
was brought to England by the Norsemen. The Norse name Gren means bough
or branch and may have been the occasion of adopting the word as a
surname.

The generally accepted theory as to the origin of the name is that the
Greenes assumed their name and coat-of-arms from an allusion to their
principal lordship, Boketon. The phrase "de Grene de Boketon" meant "the
park of the deer enclosure." A greene in the early English was a park.
"Boketon" is and olde English word meaning the bucks (bokes) enclosure
(ton). Centuries later, the syllable 'ton' lost its original meaning, and
now means town. Thus, Boketon became Bucks, then Buckston, and later,
Boughton, the present name of the estate. Boketon had a spacious green,
upon which a Fair was held yearly with particular privilege. The accuracy
of this explanation was challenged by Ellis on his belief that Sir Thomas
already bore the name of Grene when he became grantee of the manor in
1341 and that there is no documentary proof that he was the son of Sir
Thomas Boketon.

No less than four different coats-of arms have been borne by members of
the Greene family:
1. Three buck trippant upon an azure field, that is, three bucks traced
in gold, as standing on three legs, upon a blue field
2. Cross engrailed (which is assumed from the Drayton family)
3. Argent fretty sable, on a canton or a mullet (which Sir Nicholas Grene
of Extonmay have taken from the Inwardby family)
4. Chevron between three bucks (used by Green of Middlesex)

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

Sir Thomas de Greene, the fifth lord, was born in 1292. When he was about
forty, he was made High Sheriff of Northampton (1330-1332) in the early
part of the reign of Edward III. He married the Lady Lucie de la Zouche,
lineally descended from Alen, the famous Earl and Sovereign of Bretagne.

SOURCE: Maxson Frederick Greene,
http://www.paintedhills.org/green_family.htm


More About Thomas "5th Lord of Boketon" De Grene:
Burial: St. John the Baptist Cemetery, Greenes Norton, County of Northampshire, ENGLAND.

More About Thomas "5th Lord of Boketon" De Grene and Lucy "Lady of Boketon" De La Zouche:
Marriage: October 23, 1297, County Northamptonshire, ENGLAND.

Children of Thomas "5th Lord of Boketon" De Grene and Lucy "Lady of Boketon" De La Zouche are:
  1. +Henry "6th Lord of Boketon" De Grene, b. 1310, County Northampton, ENGLAND, d. 1370, Greene's Norton, County Northampshire, ENGLAND.
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