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The Greenes of Northaniptonsliirc.
and co-heiress of George Canteloupe, Baron of Abergavenny in Wales;
and (2) Christian, daughter of Irwardby. The son by second wife,
Sir Nicholas, m. Joan, daughter of Sir John Bruce. They had two daughters,
Joan, wife of Sir Thomas Culpeper; and Elizabeth, wife of Sir John
Holland.
Lucy la Zouche, first wife of Sir Thomas of Boketon, was granddaughter
of Alan, Lord Zouche of Ashby, Governor of Northampton Castle, whose
wife was granddaughter of Saier de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, one of the
twenty-five Magna Charta Barons and a Knight of the Fifth Crusade in the
Holy Land, 1220. Lucy la Zouche was also descended from Hengest, King
of the Saxons, and Hugh Capet, founder of the Capetian dynasty in France.
(See pedigree below.)
Sir Henry Grene " de Boketon," son of Sir Thomas and Lucy (Zouche)
de Boketon, was Sergeant-at-Law, 1345, Justice of the King's Bench, 1354,
Chief Justice of England, 24th May, 1361.
He had the grant of " Boketon Fair " in 1351 and purchased the Manor
of Norton in 1353, which, with the village, has since been called Greene's
Norton. He died 1369 and was buried at Boketon, where the ruins of the
old church still remain. " Sir Henry Grene for his great wisdom and knowledge
was advanced to the office of Lord Chief Justice of England and with
his large possessions in Northamptonshire and other counties left his pos-
'
terity one of the most considerable estates of that age ' (Baker)
In 1358, Sir Henry Grene, then Justice of Common Pleas, having been
cited before the Pope for pronouncing judgment against the Bishop of
Ely for harboring one of his men who had burnt the Mansion House of
Lady Wake and slain one of the servants, was excommunicated for non-
appearance, but it did not prevent his being raised to the office of Chief
Justice of the King's Bench on 24th May, 1361. He opened Parliament
in the following two years and was present in the next. He was succeeded
by John Knyvet, 29th October, 1365. The warrant for the delivery of the
Rolls, etc., calls him ''delectus et fidelis" (Foss), showing that he was dismissed
with honor. In all his extant deeds he styles himself " de Buckton."
He added greatly to his patrimonial estates and, dying in 43d
Edward III. (1370), left his vast extent of property to his eldest son, Sir
Thomas, and his second son. Sir Henry Grene. He married Catharine de
Drayton of the noted de Vere family, daughter of Sir John and sister of
Sir Simon Drayton.'
They had issue:
I Sir John Drayton was eighth in male hne of descent from Aubrey de Vere, who came in with
William the Conqueror. (See pedigree de Vere.)