Henry de Grene Chief Justice of the King's Bench

• Preferred Name: Henry de Grene Chief Justice of the King's Bench^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• LDS+Sealing+To+Parents: 23 JAN 1958
  
• Occupation: Speaker of the House of LordsBET 1362 AND 1364
  
• Find A Grave: with note: Description: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109882766/henry-de_grene
  
• Death: 6 AUG 1369 in Boughton, Northamptonshire, England at LATI: N2.2844 LONG: E0.9001
  
• Occupation: Justice of the Court of Common Pleas14 FEB 1354
  
• Religion: Excommunicated1357 in England with note: In 1357 he was excommunicated for non-appearance at the trial of Thomas de Lisle, bishop of Ely, in Avignon.[3] Summerson, Henry (2004). "Green, Sir Henry (d. 1369)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11383
  
• Birth: 1310 in Isham, Northamptonshire, England at LATI: N2.3571 LONG: E0.7022 with note: Henry Grene was NOT born in Boughton (or Boketon) Northamptonshire. He was born in Isham, the son of Henry Grene and came from a wealthy family involved in the wool trade. He married two baronet heiresses and his offspring were given their titles. Henry Grene being the son of Thomas Grene and Lucy de la Zouche was guesswork by early genealogists and is wrong, which has been recently researched and proven wrong by Oxford Dictionary and the History of Parliament researchers.
  
• LDS+Baptism: 28 OCT 1919
  
• Occupation: High Sheriff of Northampton1330
  
• Burial: 1369 in Boughton, Northamptonshire, England at LATI: N2.2844 LONG: E0.9001
  
• FSID: M6G1-6R5
  
• knighted: 14 FEB 1354 in London, England
  
• LDS+Endowment: 25 JAN 1922
  
• Occupation: Lord Chief Justice of EnglandBET 24 MAY 1361 AND 29 OCT 1365 in London, Middlesex, England
  
• Christening: 1310 in Isham, Northamptonshire, England at LATI: N2.3571 LONG: E0.7022 with note: Henry de Grene was not born in or christened in Boughton, Northamptonshire. He was born and raised in Isham, Northamptonshire. He resided, for most of his adult life, in Boughton, Northamptonshire.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  The most reliable biography of Henry Grene (d. 1369) is in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/11383
  
  From British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp76-81#fnn45
  
  The Boughton family, who obtained the Manor of Boughton in the reign of Edward I, were already holders of land there, and their estate may have originated in the virgate held in 1086 of Countess Judith by Robert. The first of this family of whom any record remains was William, who was succeeded by a son Richard, whose son Alexander was a benefactor both to St. Andrew's Priory, Northampton, and to the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, Kingsthorpe. He died before 1211, leaving a widow Margaret and two sons, William who died without issue and Walter, who died before 1284. Walter was succeeded by his son John, who purchased Boughton manor from St. Wandrille Abbey, when their holding became absorbed in the manor; it is doubtful if it had acquired the legal status of a manor, although Walter is sometimes styled lord of Boughton.
  
  William the Conqueror bestowed most of the land in Boughton upon his niece, the Countess Judith, and the overlordship remained vested in the holders of the honor of Huntingdon of which the descent is traced under Yardley Hastings. One of the under-tenants of the countess in 1086 was the Norman abbey of St. Wandrille who held 3 hides less half a virgate, bestowed upon them by the countess; by the 12th century this estate had increased to 3 hides and 3 small virgates, probably by the addition of 3 virgates held of the countess at the Domesday Survey by 4 socmen. It was worth 110s. in 1207, and was appropriated by John for the time being with the lands of other Norman holders, but was regained by the abbey, whose abbot William de Nutricilla, in the reign of Edward I, conveyed it to John de Boughton, who already owned land in Boughton by inheritance. From John it passed to his son, another John; and to the latter's son Thomas, against whom and his mother Juliana, William, Abbot of St. Wandrille, brought an action in 1330 claiming that as the estate had belonged to the abbey by virtue of the Prebend of Uphaven, in the diocese of Salisbury, and that as the consent of the dean and chapter had not been obtained, the alienation of the manor by William de Nutricilla was not valid. The abbot, however, failed to prosecute and judgement was given for Thomas, who in the same year successfully claimed view of frankpledge in his manor of Boughton, on prescription; he was sheriff for Northants. in 1331, 1334, and 1343. In 1337 the abbey of St. Wandrille was absolved by the Pope from the penalty it had incurred by selling the Boughton estate without licence from the bishop, and the tenure of the Boughton family was thus rendered more secure. Three years afterwards, however, Sir Thomas de Boughton and Joan his wife sold the reversion of the manor to Henry Grene of Isham, junior, in whose family it remained for many years. Henry Grene was knighted in 1354 and in 1361 was appointed chief justice of the King's Bench, from which he was removed in 1365; he died in 1369 and was succeeded in his Boughton estates by Thomas, his son by his first wife; Drayton, which he had acquired from Sir John Drayton, brother of his second wife Catherine, being settled on Henry his son by her. Sir Thomas, who died in 1391, was succeeded by his son another Sir Thomas, Sheriff of Northants. in 1417, in which year he died. His widow Mary died in 1433, when their son, another Sir Thomas, came into possession of the whole manor. The manor passed from him to his son, grandson, and great-grandson, all of whom were called Thomas, but the sixth and last Thomas died in 1506, without male heirs, when his property passed to his two daughters Anne and Maud.
  
  === From British History Online, https://www ===
  From British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp76-81#fnn45
  
  The Boughton family, who obtained the Manor of Boughton in the reign of Edward I, were already holders of land there, and their estate may have originated in the virgate held in 1086 of Countess Judith by Robert. The first of this family of whom any record remains was William, who was succeeded by a son Richard, whose son Alexander was a benefactor both to St. Andrew's Priory, Northampton, and to the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, Kingsthorpe. He died before 1211, leaving a widow Margaret and two sons, William who died without issue and Walter, who died before 1284. Walter was succeeded by his son John, who purchased Boughton manor from St. Wandrille Abbey, when their holding became absorbed in the manor; it is doubtful if it had acquired the legal status of a manor, although Walter is sometimes styled lord of Boughton.
  
  William the Conqueror bestowed most of the land in Boughton upon his niece, the Countess Judith, and the overlordship remained vested in the holders of the honor of Huntingdon of which the descent is traced under Yardley Hastings. One of the under-tenants of the countess in 1086 was the Norman abbey of St. Wandrille who held 3 hides less half a virgate, bestowed upon them by the countess; by the 12th century this estate had increased to 3 hides and 3 small virgates, probably by the addition of 3 virgates held of the countess at the Domesday Survey by 4 socmen. It was worth 110s. in 1207, and was appropriated by John for the time being with the lands of other Norman holders, but was regained by the abbey, whose abbot William de Nutricilla, in the reign of Edward I, conveyed it to John de Boughton, who already owned land in Boughton by inheritance. From John it passed to his son, another John; and to the latter's son Thomas, against whom and his mother Juliana, William, Abbot of St. Wandrille, brought an action in 1330 claiming that as the estate had belonged to the abbey by virtue of the Prebend of Uphaven, in the diocese of Salisbury, and that as the consent of the dean and chapter had not been obtained, the alienation of the manor by William de Nutricilla was not valid. The abbot, however, failed to prosecute and judgement was given for Thomas, who in the same year successfully claimed view of frankpledge in his manor of Boughton, on prescription; he was sheriff for Northants. in 1331, 1334, and 1343. In 1337 the abbey of St. Wandrille was absolved by the Pope from the penalty it had incurred by selling the Boughton estate without licence from the bishop, and the tenure of the Boughton family was thus rendered more secure. Three years afterwards, however, Sir Thomas de Boughton and Joan his wife sold the reversion of the manor to Henry Grene of Isham, junior, in whose family it remained for many years. Henry Grene was knighted in 1354 and in 1361 was appointed chief justice of the King's Bench, from which he was removed in 1365; he died in 1369 and was succeeded in his Boughton estates by Thomas, his son by his first wife; Drayton, which he had acquired from Sir John Drayton, brother of his second wife Catherine, being settled on Henry his son by her. Sir Thomas, who died in 1391, was succeeded by his son another Sir Thomas, Sheriff of Northants. in 1417, in which year he died. His widow Mary died in 1433, when their son, another Sir Thomas, came into possession of the whole manor. The manor passed from him to his son, grandson, and great-grandson, all of whom were called Thomas, but the sixth and last Thomas died in 1506, without male heirs, when his property passed to his two daughters Anne and Maud.
  
  BIOGRAPHY: Member of Parliament 1324-1337-1338-1343. Hig h Sheriff.
  
  Sir Thomas, the fifth lord, was born in 1292. He contracted a high marriage with one of royal descent, and when about 40 was made High Sheriff of Northampton (1330-1332) in the early part of the reign of Edward III. "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." (Halstead)
  Our chronicler continues: "He married Lucie the daughter of Eudo de la Zouche and Millicent, one of the sisters and heirs of George de Cantelupe, Lord of Abergavenny, (on the River Usk in Wales,) with whom he had in free marriage nine Messuages, (houses with adjoining lands), one Toft (a grove), and four Virgates of Land (yard lands of from 15 to 40 acres each) with their appurtenances in Harringworth. The house of de la Zouche was lineally descended from Alan the famous Earl and Sovereign of Little Britain." Sir Thomas, my Lady Lucie, had one son, Sir Henry de Greene, afterward Lord Chief Justice of England.
  Lady Lucie had royal blood. From her only son have descended the Earls of Wiltshire, Montague, Peterborough and Sandwich, as well as a host of good Americans, including the Warwick and Quidnessett Greenes. For their benefit Lady Lucie de la Zouche's pedigree is given.
  Charles the Bald, the grandson of Charlemagne, was King of France from 823-877. When at war with his brothers and in sore straits, he called to his aid Robert the Strong, a Saxon leader in England, and rewarded him with rick territorial grants and the titles of Count of Anjou and Duke of Ile de France. This was in 861. Duke Robert was every inch a military man, and won renown for his victories over the Norsemen, after they were successful almost everywhere else. It is from him that the martial spirit came that has blazed out anew now and then down the centuries, among his descendants, as in Lord Montague and the Earl of Sandwich in England, and our own General Nathaniel Greene of Revolutionary War fame.
  Robert the Strong fell in battle with the Norsemen. A son Hugh was later killed in a Norse battle also. Robert's two sons, Duke Eudes and Duke Robert, are by some reckoned among the kings of Freance, as they exercised the power of a ruler. Eudes long fought the Norsemen with dogges courage. Robert, who succeeded this brother, had civil wars to contend with. When Robert's son, Count Hugo the White, or Hugo the Great, became Duke of France, there was nominally a descendant of Charlemagne on the French throne. In reality Hugo was king in all but name. His son, Hugh Capet, in 987, wrested the throne from the weak puppet upon it, and was crowned king at Rheims. Hugo Capet married a sister of Guilhem Fier-a-Bras (William of the Iron Arm), the Duke of Aquitaine.
  === Life Sketch ===
  The most reliable biography of Henry Grene (d. 1369) is in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography at https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/11383
  
  From British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp76-81#fnn45
  
  The Boughton family, who obtained the Manor of Boughton in the reign of Edward I, were already holders of land there, and their estate may have originated in the virgate held in 1086 of Countess Judith by Robert. The first of this family of whom any record remains was William, who was succeeded by a son Richard, whose son Alexander was a benefactor both to St. Andrew's Priory, Northampton, and to the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, Kingsthorpe. He died before 1211, leaving a widow Margaret and two sons, William who died without issue and Walter, who died before 1284. Walter was succeeded by his son John, who purchased Boughton manor from St. Wandrille Abbey, when their holding became absorbed in the manor; it is doubtful if it had acquired the legal status of a manor, although Walter is sometimes styled lord of Boughton.
  
  William the Conqueror bestowed most of the land in Boughton upon his niece, the Countess Judith, and the overlordship remained vested in the holders of the honor of Huntingdon of which the descent is traced under Yardley Hastings. One of the under-tenants of the countess in 1086 was the Norman abbey of St. Wandrille who held 3 hides less half a virgate, bestowed upon them by the countess; by the 12th century this estate had increased to 3 hides and 3 small virgates, probably by the addition of 3 virgates held of the countess at the Domesday Survey by 4 socmen. It was worth 110s. in 1207, and was appropriated by John for the time being with the lands of other Norman holders, but was regained by the abbey, whose abbot William de Nutricilla, in the reign of Edward I, conveyed it to John de Boughton, who already owned land in Boughton by inheritance. From John it passed to his son, another John; and to the latter's son Thomas, against whom and his mother Juliana, William, Abbot of St. Wandrille, brought an action in 1330 claiming that as the estate had belonged to the abbey by virtue of the Prebend of Uphaven, in the diocese of Salisbury, and that as the consent of the dean and chapter had not been obtained, the alienation of the manor by William de Nutricilla was not valid. The abbot, however, failed to prosecute and judgement was given for Thomas, who in the same year successfully claimed view of frankpledge in his manor of Boughton, on prescription; he was sheriff for Northants. in 1331, 1334, and 1343. In 1337 the abbey of St. Wandrille was absolved by the Pope from the penalty it had incurred by selling the Boughton estate without licence from the bishop, and the tenure of the Boughton family was thus rendered more secure. Three years afterwards, however, Sir Thomas de Boughton and Joan his wife sold the reversion of the manor to Henry Grene of Isham, junior, in whose family it remained for many years. Henry Grene was knighted in 1354 and in 1361 was appointed chief justice of the King's Bench, from which he was removed in 1365; he died in 1369 and was succeeded in his Boughton estates by Thomas, his son by his first wife; Drayton, which he had acquired from Sir John Drayton, brother of his second wife Catherine, being settled on Henry his son by her. Sir Thomas, who died in 1391, was succeeded by his son another Sir Thomas, Sheriff of Northants. in 1417, in which year he died. His widow Mary died in 1433, when their son, another Sir Thomas, came into possession of the whole manor. The manor passed from him to his son, grandson, and great-grandson, all of whom were called Thomas, but the sixth and last Thomas died in 1506, without male heirs, when his property passed to his two daughters Anne and Maud.
  
  === From British History Online, https://www ===
  From British History Online, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp76-81#fnn45
  
  The Boughton family, who obtained the Manor of Boughton in the reign of Edward I, were already holders of land there, and their estate may have originated in the virgate held in 1086 of Countess Judith by Robert. The first of this family of whom any record remains was William, who was succeeded by a son Richard, whose son Alexander was a benefactor both to St. Andrew's Priory, Northampton, and to the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, Kingsthorpe. He died before 1211, leaving a widow Margaret and two sons, William who died without issue and Walter, who died before 1284. Walter was succeeded by his son John, who purchased Boughton manor from St. Wandrille Abbey, when their holding became absorbed in the manor; it is doubtful if it had acquired the legal status of a manor, although Walter is sometimes styled lord of Boughton.
  
  William the Conqueror bestowed most of the land in Boughton upon his niece, the Countess Judith, and the overlordship remained vested in the holders of the honor of Huntingdon of which the descent is traced under Yardley Hastings. One of the under-tenants of the countess in 1086 was the Norman abbey of St. Wandrille who held 3 hides less half a virgate, bestowed upon them by the countess; by the 12th century this estate had increased to 3 hides and 3 small virgates, probably by the addition of 3 virgates held of the countess at the Domesday Survey by 4 socmen. It was worth 110s. in 1207, and was appropriated by John for the time being with the lands of other Norman holders, but was regained by the abbey, whose abbot William de Nutricilla, in the reign of Edward I, conveyed it to John de Boughton, who already owned land in Boughton by inheritance. From John it passed to his son, another John; and to the latter's son Thomas, against whom and his mother Juliana, William, Abbot of St. Wandrille, brought an action in 1330 claiming that as the estate had belonged to the abbey by virtue of the Prebend of Uphaven, in the diocese of Salisbury, and that as the consent of the dean and chapter had not been obtained, the alienation of the manor by William de Nutricilla was not valid. The abbot, however, failed to prosecute and judgement was given for Thomas, who in the same year successfully claimed view of frankpledge in his manor of Boughton, on prescription; he was sheriff for Northants. in 1331, 1334, and 1343. In 1337 the abbey of St. Wandrille was absolved by the Pope from the penalty it had incurred by selling the Boughton estate without licence from the bishop, and the tenure of the Boughton family was thus rendered more secure. Three years afterwards, however, Sir Thomas de Boughton and Joan his wife sold the reversion of the manor to Henry Grene of Isham, junior, in whose family it remained for many years. Henry Grene was knighted in 1354 and in 1361 was appointed chief justice of the King's Bench, from which he was removed in 1365; he died in 1369 and was succeeded in his Boughton estates by Thomas, his son by his first wife; Drayton, which he had acquired from Sir John Drayton, brother of his second wife Catherine, being settled on Henry his son by her. Sir Thomas, who died in 1391, was succeeded by his son another Sir Thomas, Sheriff of Northants. in 1417, in which year he died. His widow Mary died in 1433, when their son, another Sir Thomas, came into possession of the whole manor. The manor passed from him to his son, grandson, and great-grandson, all of whom were called Thomas, but the sixth and last Thomas died in 1506, without male heirs, when his property passed to his two daughters Anne and Maud.
  
  BIOGRAPHY: Member of Parliament 1324-1337-1338-1343. Hig h Sheriff.
  
  Sir Thomas, the fifth lord, was born in 1292. He contracted a high marriage with one of royal descent, and when about 40 was made High Sheriff of Northampton (1330-1332) in the early part of the reign of Edward III. "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." (Halstead)
  Our chronicler continues: "He married Lucie the daughter of Eudo de la Zouche and Millicent, one of the sisters and heirs of George de Cantelupe, Lord of Abergavenny, (on the River Usk in Wales,) with whom he had in free marriage nine Messuages, (houses with adjoining lands), one Toft (a grove), and four Virgates of Land (yard lands of from 15 to 40 acres each) with their appurtenances in Harringworth. The house of de la Zouche was lineally descended from Alan the famous Earl and Sovereign of Little Britain." Sir Thomas, my Lady Lucie, had one son, Sir Henry de Greene, afterward Lord Chief Justice of England.
  Lady Lucie had royal blood. From her only son have descended the Earls of Wiltshire, Montague, Peterborough and Sandwich, as well as a host of good Americans, including the Warwick and Quidnessett Greenes. For their benefit Lady Lucie de la Zouche's pedigree is given.
  Charles the Bald, the grandson of Charlemagne, was King of France from 823-877. When at war with his brothers and in sore straits, he called to his aid Robert the Strong, a Saxon leader in England, and rewarded him with rick territorial grants and the titles of Count of Anjou and Duke of Ile de France. This was in 861. Duke Robert was every inch a military man, and won renown for his victories over the Norsemen, after they were successful almost everywhere else. It is from him that the martial spirit came that has blazed out anew now and then down the centuries, among his descendants, as in Lord Montague and the Earl of Sandwich in England, and our own General Nathaniel Greene of Revolutionary War fame.
  Robert the Strong fell in battle with the Norsemen. A son Hugh was later killed in a Norse battle also. Robert's two sons, Duke Eudes and Duke Robert, are by some reckoned among the kings of Freance, as they exercised the power of a ruler. Eudes long fought the Norsemen with dogges courage. Robert, who succeeded this brother, had civil wars to contend with. When Robert's son, Count Hugo the White, or Hugo the Great, became Duke of France, there was nominally a descendant of Charlemagne on the French throne. In reality Hugo was king in all but name. His son, Hugh Capet, in 987, wrested the throne from the weak puppet upon it, and was crowned king at Rheims. Hugo Capet married a sister of Guilhem Fier-a-Bras (William of the Iron Arm), the Duke of Aquitaine.

• m. ABT 1340

1. Thomas de Grene I of Grene's Norton, b. 1343 in Norton, Northamptonshire, England     d. 1391 in Grene’s Norton, Northamptonshire, England

• m. 1350 in Boughton, Northamptonshire, England

1. Thomas De Greene,    

1. Title: CP 25/1/177/75, number 195
   Publication: Name: http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_177_75.shtml#195;
   Note: CP 25/1/177/75, number 195. Link: Image of document at AALT County: Northamptonshire. Place: Westminster. Date: One week from St Hilary, 13 Edward III [20 January 1340]. Parties: Henry de Grene of Isham the younger, querent, and Thomas de Boketon', knight, and Joan, his wife, deforciants. Property: The manors of Boketon' and Brampton'. Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement: Thomas has acknowledged the manors to be the right of Henry, as those which Henry has of his gift. For this: Henry has granted to Thomas and Joan the manors and has rendered them to them in the court, to hold to Thomas and Joan, of Henry and his heirs for the lives of Thomas and Joan, rendering yearly 1 rose at the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, and doing to the chief lords all other services. And after the decease of Thomas and Joan the manors shall revert to Henry and his heirs, quit of the heirs of Thomas and Joan, to hold of the chief lords for ever. Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.) Persons: Henry de Green, Thomas de Boughton, Joan de Boughton Places: Isham, Boughton, Brampton Ash
   
2. Title: Image of CP 25/1/177/75, number 195
   Publication: Name: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT7/CP25(1)/CP25_1_177/IMG_0110.htm;
   Note: CP 25/1/177/75, number 195. Link: Image of document at AALT County: Northamptonshire. Place: Westminster. Date: One week from St Hilary, 13 Edward III [20 January 1340]. Parties: Henry de Grene of Isham the younger, querent, and Thomas de Boketon', knight, and Joan, his wife, deforciants. Property: The manors of Boketon' and Brampton'. Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement: Thomas has acknowledged the manors to be the right of Henry, as those which Henry has of his gift. For this: Henry has granted to Thomas and Joan the manors and has rendered them to them in the court, to hold to Thomas and Joan, of Henry and his heirs for the lives of Thomas and Joan, rendering yearly 1 rose at the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, and doing to the chief lords all other services. And after the decease of Thomas and Joan the manors shall revert to Henry and his heirs, quit of the heirs of Thomas and Joan, to hold of the chief lords for ever. Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.) Persons: Henry de Green, Thomas de Boughton, Joan de Boughton Places: Isham, Boughton, Brampton Ash
   
3. Title: Image of CP 25/1/177/76, number 220
   Publication: Name: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT7/CP25(1)/CP25_1_177/IMG_0141.htm;
   Note: CP 25/1/177/76, number 220. Link: Image of document at AALT County: Northamptonshire. Place: Westminster. Date: One week from St Michael, 14 Edward III [6 October 1340]. And afterwards one week from St Hilary in the same year [20 January 1341]. Parties: Henry de Grene the younger, querent, and Hugh de Horewode and Margaret, his wife, deforciants. Property: 1 messuage, 12 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow and 2 acres of pasture in Isham. Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement: Hugh and Margaret have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Henry, as those which he has of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Margaret to him and his heirs for ever. Warranty: Warranty. For this: Henry has given them 40 marks of silver. Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.) Persons: Henry de Green, Hugh de Horwood, Margaret de Horwood Places: Isham
   
4. Title: Sir Henry de Grene, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-Q4YS : 10 May 2023), Henry De Greene, ; Burial, Norton, Ryedale District, North Yorkshire, England, St Peter Churchyard; citing record ID 109882766, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-Q4YS;
   Page: Find A Grave Index
   
5. Title: CP 25/1/177/76, number 220
   Publication: Name: http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_177_76.shtml#220;
   Note: CP 25/1/177/76, number 220. Link: Image of document at AALT County: Northamptonshire. Place: Westminster. Date: One week from St Michael, 14 Edward III [6 October 1340]. And afterwards one week from St Hilary in the same year [20 January 1341]. Parties: Henry de Grene the younger, querent, and Hugh de Horewode and Margaret, his wife, deforciants. Property: 1 messuage, 12 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow and 2 acres of pasture in Isham. Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement: Hugh and Margaret have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Henry, as those which he has of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Margaret to him and his heirs for ever. Warranty: Warranty. For this: Henry has given them 40 marks of silver. Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.) Persons: Henry de Green, Hugh de Horwood, Margaret de Horwood Places: Isham
   
6. Title: Wiki Page for Chief Justice Henry de Grene
   Publication: Name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Green_%28justice%29;
   
7. Title: C 241/111/108 Debtor: John de Northburgh, citizen [and draper, merchant] of London. Creditor: Henry Green of Isham [Northants], the Younger
   Publication: Name: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9695250;
   Note: Reference: C 241/111/108 Description: Debtor: John de Northburgh, citizen [and draper, merchant] of London. Creditor: Henry Green of Isham [Northants], the Younger. Amount: £80. Before whom: Henry Darcy, Mayor of London; William de Carleton, Clerk. When taken: 13/03/1338 First term: 29/09/1338 Last term: 29/09/1338 Writ to: Sheriff of Herts Sent by: Henry Darcy, Mayor of London; William de Carleton, Clerk. Endorsement: Coram Justic' xv Mich'is. Hertford. Date: 1338
   
8. Title: Green, Sir Henry (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
   Publication: Name: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/11383;
   Note: Green, Sir Henry (d. 1369), justice, came from Northamptonshire, the son of Henry Green of Isham. He is first recorded in a legal context in April 1331, when he witnessed an indenture in the company of such distinguished lawyers as William Shareshull, Robert Sadington, and Roger Hillary. By Michaelmas term 1337 he was appearing as counsel in the bench, and he was created serjeant-at-law in 1342. In spite of a youthful brashness which in Hilary term 1345 brought him a sharp snub from Chief Justice Stonor—'I am amazed that Grene makes himself out to know everything in the world, and he is only a young man' (Pike, 1905, 446–8)—he became a king's serjeant later that same year. He also appears to have served Queen Isabella, who in 1346 gave him the lease for life of the manor of Brigstock, Northamptonshire, and he became a member of the council of Edward, the Black Prince, receiving an annual payment for his pains 'on the prince's business when matters of law are on hand' (Tout, Admin. hist., 5.385). In February 1354 he was appointed a justice of the bench and knighted; the grant of 80 marks per annum on top of his yearly salary of 40 marks may have been meant to act as a safeguard against corruption. Frequently employed as a commissioner of oyer and terminer and justice of assize and gaol delivery, above all in the midlands, Green's involvement in the violent dispute between Bishop Thomas Lisle of Ely and Blanche, Lady Wake, led to his being excommunicated by the pope in 1357. This did him no harm in the king's eyes, for on 24 May 1361 he was appointed to succeed Shareshull as chief justice of king's bench, and in that capacity made the opening speech in the parliament of Michaelmas 1362. A trier of petitions at that parliament, and again at Michaelmas 1363 and Hilary 1365, Green also presided over sessions of his court in Yorkshire in 1363 and the eastern counties (where it sat for three successive sessions) in 1364. But Green's career was to be shattered when at its height, for in 1365 he and Sir William Skipwith, the chief baron of the exchequer, were arrested for what the chronicler Henry Knighton called his 'enormous derelictions' (Knighton's Chronicle, 193), and on 30 October Green was ordered to hand over to John Knyvet all the records associated with his office of chief justice. Knighton offers no other explanation for the king's action against the justices, and adds only that they redeemed themselves by a fine. Corruption is certainly a possible cause. Green built up a substantial estate, with properties in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and London, and did not always obtain royal licence for dealings in land where the strict letter of the law required this; he also invested in the wardships and marriages of heirs. By 1359 he was rich enough to lend the king £100 and forgo repayment. Personal enmities may also have played their part. In February 1364 Sir Peter Malory and his son were reported to have been convicted in the mayor of London's court of forcible trespass against Green; an award of £300 in damages suggests that the offence was regarded as serious. But as no record of any fine by Green has been discovered, it is just as likely that the king's motives were essentially political. Skipwith was later able to resume his judicial career, but Green, although he was remembered in the following reign as a learned judge, was never again employed in the courts. Nevertheless he suffered no diminution of his estate, which at his death in Northamptonshire, on 6 August 1369, descended to his sons Thomas and Henry, as their father had arranged some years earlier. Green had married twice. Thomas, the son of the first marriage, to a woman named Amabilia, succeeded to most of his father's estates, while Henry, who became notorious as a councillor of Richard II in the last years of that king's reign and was executed in 1399, inherited the properties that came to his father through Sir Henry's second marriage, to Katherine, daughter of Sir John Drayton of Drayton. Sir Henry Green was buried in Boughton church in Northamptonshire, as he had directed in his will, drawn up on 20 July 1369. It is a measure of his wealth that he died possessed of cash amounting to £460. As well as making bequests to the bailiff of each of his manors, and to all his farm workers ( (Famuli)), he left £40 to the fabric of Boughton church, where his effigy long represented him 'in a short goune that should show hym a lawyer, having also a serjeant's coyfe' (Baker, Serjeants, 70).
   
9. Title: Henry del Grene of Isham and Sir John son of Stephen de Segrave, knight, his lord. 10 June 13 Edw. III
   Publication: Name: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/86799283-2844-4027-85aa-4122c1b76c38;
   Note: Reference: BCM/D/5/53/6 Description: Henry del Grene of Isham and Sir John son of Stephen de Segrave, knight, his lord. 10 June 13 Edw. III Henry has granted to John, his heirs and assigns all his lands and holdings in Wytherdelegh, viz. his villeins, rents and services, and mill, which he had by grant of William Curteys of Bryklesworth, in exchange for the manor of Cotes (Northants.). Witnesses: Sir Robert de Saddyntone, knight, Thomas de Blastone, William de Overtone, parson of Sileby, John de Cutone, John de Pulteneye, son of William Oweyn, Richard de Smetone, Richard de Gaddesby. At: London. [Please quote GC2954 at Berkeley Castle Muniments when requesting this file] Date: [1339] Held by: Berkeley Castle Muniments, not available at The National Archives Language: English
   
10. Title: Calendar of Close Rolls (CCR), 21 Edward III, p. 239
    Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/cu31924091767925/page/239/mode/1up?view=theater;
    
11. Title: CP 25/1/288/47, number 633
    Publication: Name: http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_288_47.shtml#633;
    Note: CP 25/1/288/47, number 633. Link: Image of document at AALT County: Cambridgeshire. Essex. Place: Westminster. Date: Two weeks from Easter, 38 Edward III [7 April 1364]. Parties: William de Quenton', knight, and Isabel, his wife, querents, and John de Olneye, Nicholas de Cogenho and John Cook' of Comberton', deforciants. Property: The manor of Comberton' in the county of Cambridge and the manor of Whitrothyng and the advowson of the church of the same manor in the county of Essex. Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement: William has acknowledged the manors and advowson to be the right of John, Nicholas and John, as those which John, Nicholas and John have of his gift. For this: John, Nicholas and John have granted to William and Isabel the manors and advowson and have rendered them to them in the court, to hold to William and Isabel, of the lord king and his heirs for the lives of William and Isabel. And after the decease of William and Isabel the manors and advowson shall remain to Henry, son of Henry Grene of Isham, and the heirs of his body, to hold of the lord king and his heirs for ever. In default of such heirs, remainder to Henry Grene the elder, the father of the aforesaid Henry, son of Henry, and his heirs. Note: This agreement was made by the command of the lord king. Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.) Persons: William de Quinton, Isabel de Quinton, John de Olney, Nicholas de Cogenhoe, John Cook, Henry Green Places: Comberton, White Roding, Isham (in Northamptonshire)
    
12. Title: The House of Goldsborough: Goldsborough: From 6th Century England
    Author: The House of Goldsborough: Goldsborough: From 6th Century England to ... By Eleanora Goldsborough, Paul Feist, Mary W. Feist, Paul Feist, Mary W. Feist, page 126-133
    Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=Ek8iwcgtTNwC&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=john+de+drayton+%2B+ardene&source=bl&ots=UugDW09bzf&sig=ARaGoMqTCSOH8mod_y7wl66WkgI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5h8bVfqdH9PVoASb3YLoBA&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=john%20de%20drayton%20%2B%20ardene&f=false;
    Note: Gives family pedigree on the draytons and their history leading to the Greene family... NOTE: It is only accurate on some levels, as it skips some generations...for the most accurate information for pedigree, is that of the source also attached, Shakespear's Family...
    
13. Title: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/3599/records/2493149;
    
14. Title: Wikipedia on house of Drayton, started by Simon the son of John de Drayton & Alice
    Publication: Name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drayton_House;
    Note: Also gives mention of his son and also his brother in law Henry de Greene Chief Justice that married his sister Catherine...
    
15. Title: The Greenes of Rhode Island with historical records of English ancestry 1534-1902 pg. 141
    Publication: Name: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE6455949&pds_handle=&from=fhd;
    Page: p 6 refers to him.
    
16. Title: Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third
    Publication: Name: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Year_Books_of_the_Reign_of_King_Edward_t/nqZ_1OHj3fAC?hl=en&gbpv=1;
    
17. Title: BCM/D/5/53/4 William Curteys of Brixworth and Henry del Grene of Isham the younger
    Publication: Name: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/e8c8aa05-581d-4800-9ad3-4ba48d6ca13a;
    Note: eference: BCM/D/5/53/4 Description: William Curteys of Brixworth and Henry del Grene of Isham the younger. [Sir Henry Green, chief justice of the King's Bench 1361-5, of Boughton, Drayton and Green's Norton (Northants.), married Katherine, daughter of Sir Simon de Drayton and had Drayton and Slipton (Northants.) with her: GEC xii (2), 943 and n.; below, BCM/G/2] 2 June 13 Edw. III William has granted to Henry, his heirs and assigns all his lands and holdings in Wytherdelegh (Leics.) which he had by grant of Thomas le Wake of Blysworth and Elizabeth his wife, by a fine levied in the king's courts, with the villeins and the mill. Witnesses: Robert de Saddyngton, knight, Thomas de Blastone, William de Overtone, parson of Sileby, John de Pulteneye, son of William Oweyn, Richard de Smetone, Richard de Gaddesby, John de Cutone. At: London. [Please quote GC2953 at Berkeley Castle Muniments when requesting this file] Date: [1339] Held by: Berkeley Castle Muniments, not available at The National Archives Language: English