GREENE, Sir Thomas de

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• Name	GREENE, Thomas de
  Prefix	Sir
  Birth	1292	Boughton, Northamptonshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Burial	May 1352	Saint John Churchyard, Boughton, Northamptonshire, England
  Death	2 May 1352	Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England
  WAC	5 Jan 1922
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  Person ID	I45408	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	GREEN, Sir Thomas de ,   b. Abt 1260, Boughton, Northamptonshire, England Boughton, Northamptonshire, Englandd. 1320, Northamptonshire, England (Age 60 years)
  Mother	BOTTISHAM, Alice ,   b. Abt 1264, Braunston, Northamptonshire, England Braunston, Northamptonshire, Englandd. 1314, Norton, Northamptonshire, England (Age 50 years)
  Family ID	F23802	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	ZOUCHE, Lady Lucy La ,   b. Abt 1280, Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England Harringworth, Northamptonshire, Englandd. 23 Oct 1326, Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	1310
  Children	+ 1. GREEN, Chief Justice Henry de ,   b. 1310, Norton, Northamptonshire, England Norton, Northamptonshire, Englandd. 6 Aug 1369, Boughton, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England (Age 59 years)
  Family ID	F23716	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Sir Thomas de Greene, the fifth lord, was born in 1292. He was the son of Thomas Greene and Alice de Bottisham. 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 on October 23, 1312 in Greens Norton, Northampton, England. Lucie descends from Alan la Zouche, the famous Earl and Sovereign of Bretagne. Thomas and Lucie children were Sir Henry Greene, born 1310 in Greens Norton, Northampton, England; died 1369 in Boughton, Northamptonshire, England Nicholas Greene, born 1312 in Sir, Exton, Rutland, England. 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.