Sir Thomas Green

Sir Thomas Green
Lord of Greens Norton[1]
Spouse(s) Lady Joan Fogge
Issue
Maud Green
Anne Green
Father Sir Thomas Greene
Mother Matilda Throckmorton
Born c. 1461
Greens Norton, Northamptonshire, England
Died 9 November 1506
Burial St. Bartholomew's Church, Greens Norton, Northamptonshire, England

Sir Thomas Green (c.1461 – 9 November 1506)[2] was Lord of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire, England.[1] He was the son of Sir Thomas Greene (VI), Lord of Greens Norton, and Matilda Throckmorton. He is best known for being the father of Maud Green and grandfather to queen consort Katherine Parr and the last male heir to the Lordship of Greens Norton. He received Boughton, Greens Norton, and large monetary grants through his inheritance upon the death of his father in 1462. The Green family descended from Alfred the Great, King of Wessex.[3]

Thomas was the leading family name making Sir Thomas the seventh in a row to receive the name. The line of Thomas' started with Sir Thomas de Green, born about 1343. This Thomas was a descendant of the Norwich branch of Green's. Thomas' ancestor, Sir Henry de Green, is credited to have bought the village of Greens Norton, a village in Northamptonshire for a price of 20 shillings. Sir Henry married Katherine Drayton (ancestress to the pioneer settler Anne Hutchinson, born Anne Marbury)[3]

Sir Thomas' traits were that of any man of the time. He was conservative in religion, quarrelsome, conniving, and was one to take the law into his own hands. Sir Thomas was sent to the Tower of London due to trumped up charges of treason and died there in 1506. The last of his line, Thomas left two motherless daughters who would share the inheritance of their father.[3]

Family and issue

Sir Thomas married Joan "Jane" Fogge (born c. 1466), the daughter of Sir John Fogge (c. 1417–1490),[4] and the granddaughter of Sir William before 1489.[2][5] The Fogge family was a distinguished family of Kent where they were owners of vast estates. Sir John Fogge of Ashford built and endowed the noble church and the College at Ashford, Kent circa 1450. Sir John was a Privy Councillor, Comptroller, and Treasurer of the Household of King Edward IV and Chamberlain jointly with Sir John Scott to Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward V). He was married to Alice, daughter of Sir William Hawte of Hautsbourne, Kent by Lady Joan Woodville, aunt to Queen consort of England, Elizabeth Woodville; mother of Elizabeth of York.

Sir Thomas Green and Joan Fogge had two children, both daughters:

This line of Green's was buried at St. Bartholomew's Church in Greens Norton, Northamptonshire, England. The family lived at Greens Norton from the fourteenth century up until the death of Sir Thomas in 1506. As Sir Thomas had two female co-heiresses, his estates passed through marriage to the Parr and Vaux families.

Ancestry

References

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  4. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Rosemary Horrox, ‘Fogge, Sir John (b. in or before 1417, d. 1490)’, first published 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, 692 words.
  5. ^ The Family Chronicle of Richard Fogge, Archaelogica Cantiana, Vol 5, 1863.
  6. ^ Weir, Alison. Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 154.
  7. ^ a b c d Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles by Paget, Vol. II, p. 412
  8. ^ Unknown author, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed., by F. L. Weis, p. 129; Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 184; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 36.
  9. ^ a b c d Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families (Royal Ancestry). Genealogical Publishing Company (June 30, 2004).
  10. ^ a b The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 313-315
  11. ^ a b Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 2416.