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"Sir Henry de Greene de Boketon, son of Sir Noinas (2) de Greene de Boketon, was the foremost lawyer of his day and was made lord chief justice of England. He was speaker of the house of lords in two parliaments (1363-64), and became at last the king's nearest counsel. He died in 1370, in the sixtieth year of his age, AND WAS BURIED IN BOUGHTON (italics mine). He left to his posterity one of the most considerable estates of the age. He married Katherine, daughter of Sir John Drayton, and only sister of Sir Simon Drayton, of Drayton. They had six children: Thomas, Henry, Richard, Nicholas, Margaret, Amadila.
From: Cutter, William Richard, _New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation_, Volume 1, p. 224."
Sir Henry de Grene, Chief Justice was born in Isham, Northamptonshire and he was buried at St. John church, in Boughton, Northamptonshire - the original church graveyard. He was NOT the son of Thomas de Grene de Boketon and Lucie de la Zouche. Those persons are fictitious. His father was Henry del Grene, an extremely wealthy wool merchant in Isham. He purchased Norton Davey, Northamptonshire for his eldest son and renamed it Grene's Norton. It is at that church where subsequent generations of de Grenes were buried.
"Sir Henry de Greene de Boketon, son of Sir Noinas (2) de Greene de Boketon, was the foremost lawyer of his day and was made lord chief justice of England. He was speaker of the house of lords in two parliaments (1363-64), and became at last the king's nearest counsel. He died in 1370, in the sixtieth year of his age, AND WAS BURIED IN BOUGHTON (italics mine). He left to his posterity one of the most considerable estates of the age. He married Katherine, daughter of Sir John Drayton, and only sister of Sir Simon Drayton, of Drayton. They had six children: Thomas, Henry, Richard, Nicholas, Margaret, Amadila.
From: Cutter, William Richard, _New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation_, Volume 1, p. 224."
Sir Henry de Grene, Chief Justice was born in Isham, Northamptonshire and he was buried at St. John church, in Boughton, Northamptonshire - the original church graveyard. He was NOT the son of Thomas de Grene de Boketon and Lucie de la Zouche. Those persons are fictitious. His father was Henry del Grene, an extremely wealthy wool merchant in Isham. He purchased Norton Davey, Northamptonshire for his eldest son and renamed it Grene's Norton. It is at that church where subsequent generations of de Grenes were buried.
Family Memorial.
"Sir Henry de Greene de Boketon, son of Sir Noinas (2) de Greene de Boketon, was the foremost lawyer of his day and was made lord chief justice of England. He was speaker of the house of lords in two parliaments (1363-64), and became at last the king's nearest counsel. He died in 1370, in the sixtieth year of his age, AND WAS BURIED IN BOUGHTON (italics mine). He left to his posterity one of the most considerable estates of the age. He married Katherine, daughter of Sir John Drayton, and only sister of Sir Simon Drayton, of Drayton. They had six children: Thomas, Henry, Richard, Nicholas, Margaret, Amadila.
From: Cutter, William Richard, _New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation_, Volume 1, p. 224."
Sir Henry de Grene, Chief Justice was born in Isham, Northamptonshire and he was buried at St. John church, in Boughton, Northamptonshire - the original church graveyard. He was NOT the son of Thomas de Grene de Boketon and Lucie de la Zouche. Those persons are fictitious. His father was Henry del Grene, an extremely wealthy wool merchant in Isham. He purchased Norton Davey, Northamptonshire for his eldest son and renamed it Grene's Norton. It is at that church where subsequent generations of de Grenes were buried.
"Sir Henry de Greene de Boketon, son of Sir Noinas (2) de Greene de Boketon, was the foremost lawyer of his day and was made lord chief justice of England. He was speaker of the house of lords in two parliaments (1363-64), and became at last the king's nearest counsel. He died in 1370, in the sixtieth year of his age, AND WAS BURIED IN BOUGHTON (italics mine). He left to his posterity one of the most considerable estates of the age. He married Katherine, daughter of Sir John Drayton, and only sister of Sir Simon Drayton, of Drayton. They had six children: Thomas, Henry, Richard, Nicholas, Margaret, Amadila.
From: Cutter, William Richard, _New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation_, Volume 1, p. 224."
Sir Henry de Grene, Chief Justice was born in Isham, Northamptonshire and he was buried at St. John church, in Boughton, Northamptonshire - the original church graveyard. He was NOT the son of Thomas de Grene de Boketon and Lucie de la Zouche. Those persons are fictitious. His father was Henry del Grene, an extremely wealthy wool merchant in Isham. He purchased Norton Davey, Northamptonshire for his eldest son and renamed it Grene's Norton. It is at that church where subsequent generations of de Grenes were buried.
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