The Greene Family Being a Record of the Ancestry and Descendents

John "Lord of Drayton" Grene, was that son , besides known as  "John the Fugitive",  born about 1408. He was married 1st to cousin Mary Margaret Grene born Abt. 1408" Lady of Drayton" almost 1421. He married his second wife Edith "Lady" Latimer between 1470 and 1480. He died 1486 probably at Drayton (well-nigh Gillingham), Canton Dorset, England.

* Thomas "4th Lord of Boketon" De Grene De Boketon was born in 1260. He married Alice "Lady of Boketon" Bottisham about 1285. He carried the title of Sir, Lord of Boughton Manor, 4th Baron de Boketon. In 1296 tax listings evidence his backdrop in Rutland County were Langham, Fiddling Casterton, Manton and Ridlington. He likewise fought for and along side Edward I against the Scots. Anyone who is familiar with the picture Braveheart will call up Edward was known as Longshanks and was an extremely brutal king. Thomas died in 1319.

William "Guess" Green  was born 1671 in Rippingdale, Canton Lincoln, England. He was 20 years old when he left England for America. Before marrying he changed the spelling of the family name to Green, dropping that last "e". It has not been confirmed in research every bit notwithstanding, just information technology has been suggested that William'southward mother, Elizabeth Arnold may have died in kid nascence when William was built-in.

William built the first brick home in the Ewing area. You lot can larn more about his home hither .

Willam met and married Joanna Burroughs Reeder in 1692 in Newtown, Middlesex County, New Bailiwick of jersey. He became an honored and well respected judge. William died June 16, 1722 and was buried 2 days after at Ewing Presbyterian Cemetery, Trenton, 100 Scotch Road, Hunterdon Canton, New Jersey. Yous tin can view William's original will hither  or you can read the full text here . Joanna was born well-nigh 1674 in Newton Long Isle New York and preceeded him in expiry in 1721. She was originally buried beside him until his grave was moved many years later on. It is now believed her grave lies beneath the current sanctuary.

Geoffrey De La Zouche , was born in France in 1126. He married Hawisa Fergant of Brittany. They had ii sons, Eudes Two and Alan. many years afterward Geoffrey remarried subsequently Hawisa died and had at least one son, Alexander, by his new wife. Geoffrey died in 1187.

(Henry Bollinbroke the Earl of Hereford was crowned Henry Iv, king of England in October of that same twelvemonth . There is a scene in Shakespear's Richard II, Human activity I and 2, depicting this although not sympathetic toward the "conspirators". Shakespeare did not let actual historical fact interfere with a adept story, however.)

* Henry "6th Lord of Boketon"  De Grene ( wikipedia ) was born 1310 in Boughton (Boketon). He had the title of Sir Henry de Green, Lord of Broughton. In 1345 he was sergeant-at-Law at England. In 1354 he was Justice of the Male monarch'due south Bench at England. He was excommunicated past the Pope for pronouncing judgement against the bishop of Ely. Betwixt 24 May 1361 and 28 Oct 1365 he was Principal Justice of England (appt. by King Edward Iii) and betwixt 1363 and 1364 he was Speaker of the House of Lords in two Parliaments. He was ane of Rex Edward III'south most trusted advisors and the foremost lawyer of his day.

Sherriff of Northampton(1331 to 1332 and 1343) in the early function of the reign of Edward 3.  He was too listed in the "Men of the Liberty of the Cinque Ports" (given tax exempt status). 1334 he was likewise counted in the Lathe of Eyllesford (Aylesford), Hundred of Hoo. 1336 to 1343 Sir Thomas was a Member of Parliament at Northamptonshire, England. Lucie died 23 Oct 1326 and Thomas died circa 1352. (REF: "Americans of Purple Descent" by Charles Browning).

Sir Henry's rank would non let his pleading before the bar, but he put all his mental apprehending and legal noesis at his royal master's command. He was a Commissioner to examine certain abuses of which there was groovy complaint. He held several positions, titles and appointments and always remained employed with special trust and say-so under the ministers that the rex had left to govern the land in all the wars he  had  fabricated in  France  in 1364 and finally became the King'southward nearest  Counsel(State Cabinet) . And such was his good fortune, he left to his posterity one of the most considerable estates of that age. He died possessed of his ancient manor of Buckton, of Greene'due south Norton, East Neaston, Heydmon Court, Heybourn, Ashby Mares, and Dodington, with lands in Whittlebury, Paulsbury, and Northampton; the lordships of Drayton, Luffwich, Pesford, Islip, Shipton, Wolston, Wamingdon, Chalton, Houghton, Boteahaseall, with lands in Harringsworth, Harrowden, Hardwich, Raunds, Ringstead, Titchmarsh, Warrington, and sundry other places. His 2d union was to Katherine Drayton, daughter of Sir Simon Drayton of Drayton. He purchased Norton Davey for 20 shillings in 1359 which became Greens Norton. He died August six, 1369 and was buried in the church in Boughton in Northamptonshire.

begetter upon the elder Henry's expiry in 1369. He was executed on July 24, 1399 by Henry Bolinbroke, who had been exiled when King Richard II seized the throne. And on the adivce of Henry, Sir John Bussy and Sir William Bagot, King Richard had confiscated all of Bolinbroke's lands. It was later Bolinbroke reclaimed his throne he imprisoned both Henry and Bussy and and so had them beheaded at Bristol Castle.

* Sir Thomas de Grene , Knight and Lord of Isham, was born 1373 in Greene'south Norton, County Northampshire, England, and died Dec 14, 1417 in Greene'southward Norton, County Northampshire, England. He married Ela (Mallory) Malorie Abt. 1405 probably in Gillingham, County Dorset. They had only one known child, a son.

The GREENE  family  was a branch of the de la Zouche* family of whom Gibbon, the historian, said that they had the most royal blood and the most strain of royal blood in all Europe. The Greene's(originally de Grene) at one time were the largest state owners in all England. They were over 50 times descent of Charlemagne (known as 'Charles the Great, Rex of the Franks and Emperor of the W'), the greatest man of a thousand years.

Through the Majestic Welsh line, they claimed a double infusion of Jewish blood -- one line from Aaron, the first High Priest, who was elder brother of Moses; the other from Male monarch David himself. Queen Victoria of the same blood firmly believed this. A dozen titular saints, a dozen signers of the Magna Charta, and over thirty crusaders were in this descent.

* John "tertiary Baron de Boketon" De Grene De Boketon  was Christian and a knight born 1232 Boughton, County Northampton and was married to Alice Notes DeBottisham. When Prince Edward set forth on the concluding crusade of the Holy State of war in 1271, Sir John de Grene de Boketon was of the rank, position, and age that entitled him to back-trail the prince into battle. During this crusade, the prince and Sir John became close friends until Sir John died in Palestine in 1271, leaving a young son, Thomas, in England. When Prince Edward became King Edward I in 1272, he bestowed the title of Lord on the infant kid, Thomas, in accolade of the gallant service and friendship of Sir John.

Sir Robert Grene ,  Knight, Admirer and Lord of Bowridge Hall, was born around 1442 in Bowridge Hall, Gillingham, County Dorset, England. Ancestry.com claims he died in 1520. Following was Sir Robert "Lord of Bowridge Colina"  Grene , gentleman, born in 1499. He married Elizabeth Worgg, built-in circa 1503. The were married effectually early 1520. Their 1st child listed as born during their 1st year of marriage. He re- purchased the estate of Bowridge Hall, at Gillingham in Dorsetshire, the family seat of the three preceding generations. He died on October 2, 1563 at the age of 64. Richard "of Stanfford Ryvera" Greene  built-in 1527. He married Joan Converse in 1550 and died May 3, 1608. Joan was born Abt. 1534 in County Essex, England. She died in 1606. Richard and Joan are buried in the family unit cemetery of Saint Mary the Virgin Parish Church Cemetery. They had at least 8 known children,

(Note" Richard was likewise the great-great-great-dandy grandfather of Maj. General Nathanael Greene, who commanded the Southern Continental Army against Gen. Cornwalis.)

(John Greene, son of Thomas, was sent, in 1483, by King Richard 3 as a messenger bearing a letter from the Male monarch to Sir Robert Brackenbury who was then the keeper of the Belfry of London. In this letter the Male monarch gave orders that his two nephews, "the little Princes in the Tower," should be put to death. Although this iniquitous command was later obeyed by another governor of the Tower, Sir Robert refused to commit murder at his sovereign's behest, and sent his message of refusal back to the King by John Greene. Information technology is a tradition that when King Henry VII came to the throne he bore enmity to this John Greene because he had played (only) the function of a messenger for Richard III in the later's wicked designs, and that John Greene fled from England lest he be captured by the Rex. It is said that "John the Fugitive" returned to England and for safety assumed the name of John Clarke. Despite his change of proper noun, the identity of John Greene, the Fugitive was discovered, and he again fled from England, his further history being unknown although he is said to have died in 1486 at the family home at Drayton. Source: "The Greene Family and Its Branches", by Lora Due south. La Mance, Mayflower Publishing Company, Floral Park, NY, 1904, p 34; Gaylord Green, Green/Greene Genealogy, Vol thirteen; Denny1P@aol.com; Ancestry.com File 96135.exe; FamilySearchØ Bequeathed File v4.19;)

Dr. John "Bridgeford Colina" Greene, Sr.,  born July 28, 1570 in Bowridge Hill, Gillingham, County Dorset, England and was christened June xx,1568 at Northill Chapel, County Bedford. He was listed as a baker in Finchley, County Middlesex, England in 1585. He married Agnes Greene between 1585 and 1590 and died July 26, 1604. John "of Pinchbeck" Greene  was born 1591 in Pinchbeck, County Lincoln, England. On February 6, 1616 he married Bettrus (Beatrice) Tebbe. He died sometime after 1626 in England. William "of Pinchbeck" Greene was born Aug 22, 1624 in Pinchbeck, County Lincoln, England. He married Annis Stanfield on 22 Nov 1649. He died September fourteen, 1658 and was buried in Canton, Lincoln. Richard "of Hunterdon" Greene was born in Pinchbeck, Canton Lincoln in June 1655. He married first Elizabeth Arnold who died early, probably in childbirth. He then married Anne Quincey (built-in 1659) on Jul thirteen, 1686. Anne died May 27, 1739. There was a Richard Light-green, an English language Quaker who sailed to America aboard "The Shield" allowable by Daniel Towes. Information technology was only the fourth ship known to have delivered settlers to the west side of the Delaware River. In 1678 on the tenth of December, the "Shield" arrived from Hull. This was the showtime ship that had e'er ascended the river as far as Burlington. Amongst the English language colonists who came on this vessel were Mahlon Stacy, Thomas Lambert, Thomas Newell, John Newbold, and Mr. Barnes, merchant from Hull, Richard Light-green and John Heyers. It cannot be confirmed if this is the same Richard or a different i. It is believed Richard died before 1720 but bodily documentation of his death and burying cannot exist found at this fourth dimension. Source: History of the City of Trenton New Jersey, by John O. Raum.

His son Richard Greene was built-in March 17, 1740 in Hunterdon Co, NJ and about 1762 he married Eleanor Sullivan who was born in 1740. Together they had 10 children. Richard, forth with two of his brothers and two sisters, moved his family abroad from the Jerssey Settlement and upwards to an area of Watauga County which at the fourth dimension was however office of Wilkes County. Richard settled in the area now known as Blowing Rock. He purchased land and built his dwelling on what came to exist known as Greene Park where at present the Green Park Inn stands. At one fourth dimension Richard owned as much as 1100 acres which included parts of where the town of Blowing Stone at present exists. Included in the state he owned was Flat Top Mtn. Richard died Feb 27, 1794 in Blowing Stone and Eleanor died sometime before 1817. Richard's son Benjamin Green  was built-in in 1783 and married Mary (Polly) Elrod, born 1788. Benjamin Died in 1855 and was followed 5 years later by Mary in 1860 . From the Bravado Rock web site  - "The showtime family unit to settle in Blowing Rock were the Greens who were established by the mid 1800's on a site known as

( * indicates those ancestors buried in the family unit plot at St. John the Baptist Cemetery, Boughton, County Northampshire, England )

Green Park. There they helped 3 prominent business men from Lenoir, NC, including Civil State of war Veteran Major George Washington Findlay Harper open the Green Park Inn  in 1891.

There were a dozen decents from Alfred the Great and fifty from Wittekind. They had the blood of Irish, Scotch, Saxon, English language and Bohemian Kings;

*Walter "2nd Lord of Boketon" De Grene De Boketon,  Alexander'southward son, was born about 1206 Boughton (Boketon), County Northampton, England in what is at present Greenes Norton, County Northampshire, England. He served during the

Alexander De Greene De Boketon , born around 1181 in Harrington, County Northamptonshire, England, is the first Lord De Greene. He is the fountainhead of the Greene line and received his ability and titles as a reward from Male monarch John in 1202. He was a Knight of Rex John's court and the nifty-grandson one of the Norman Nobles who invaded England with William the Conquistador in 1066. John bestowed the Manor of Boughton in Northhampton as a reward for going to Normandy in 1201 and putting down the insurgence of Count De La March.

Jeremiah "of Linwood" Greene was born Feb. one, 1710 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He married Joanna "Hannah" Hunt, born 1712, in 1735 and eventually moved his family to The Jersey Settlement in North Carolina. In 1759 a Cherokee uprising caused Sargeant Jeremiah Dark-green, with Captain Morgan Bryan's scouts, to notice and punish the Indians. This "state of war" came to an cease merely when British regular troops, combined with a large South Carolina forcefulness and assorted scouts destroyed many of the Cherokee towns in 1760 and 1761 . ( read the history of the Settlement here ) He died Jan. 12, 1763 in Jersey, Davidson County, NC near the Yadkin River which is now part of Linwood, NC

At that place is no documentaion for the location of Jeremiah's burial merely information technology is believed Joanna outlived him since she is buried at Silverstone Customs Cemetery, in Watagua County, North Carolina along with some of her grown chidren and their familes.

(The history of the Greene family traces back every bit many as another 60 to 70 generations to as far back every bit 1200 BC. To view the list of most of those ancestors click here to view the pdf file )

they came from ancient Parthian Emperors long before the time of our Lord Jesus Christ; regular heathens; Russian rulers; French Kings; Constantine the Great; and Basil the Great, the Byzantine Emperor.

Alan de Porhoet La Zouche , Geoffrey's elder son, continued the De La Zouche proper name and congenital it upwards to some prominence. The two family branches, Alan'south la Zouche and Alexander's De Grene reconnected and merged several generations subsequently. Alan was born in 1157 and died in 1190.

* Henry "Sir Lord of Drayton" De Grene ( wikipedia ) ( historyofparliamentonline ) was born most 1347 at Greene'southward Norton and married Mathilda De Mauduit in 1364 when she was just 10 years old. She was daughter and heiress of Thomas Mauduit, by whom he had several children .He was Sir, Lord of Drayton, Lord of Greens Norton, was a Knight of the Garter and Lord Chancellor of England. He inherited the family unit dwelling at the time, DraytonHouse , from his

(Note: Information technology may exist possible that Walter de Boketon (afterward De GREENE) was  also function of the Sixth Crusade. He is listed in the old roles of the 20th and 45th years of Henry I). His title is documented as Sir, Lord, 2nd Baron of Boketon and Crusader for the Crown.)

Seventh Crusade led by French republic every bit Christian armies continued to attempt to regain access to holy places in and almost Jerusalem. Walter married about 1230 and died nearly 1275.

This outcome precipitated from the King taking the Count's state arranged bride Isabelle in 1200. He had ordered his Nobles to put downward the uprising, merely they refused. He confiscated their properties and gave them to the loyal knights who performed this job for him. The Boughton Estate was very large with the ranking of a Baronage. 6,000 acres min. were required to have this title. This property was much larger. Information technology is said that at one time the Greenes were the largest landowners in the kingdom. Alexander assumed a surname of his chief estate. De Greene De Boketon, i.e. the Lord of the Park of the Deer Enclosure. A green in the early days was "a park". Boketon is an former, old word meaning the bucks' (bokes) ton or paled-in enclosure. For a long fourth dimension De Greene De Boketon was used on all official documents over fourth dimension it was shortened to De Greene. Alexander died in 1236.   .

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* Thomas "fifth Lord of Boketon" De Grene  followed in 1288 or 1292. Conflicting records indicate on October 23, in either 1297 or 1310 he married a afar  cousin Lucie "Lady of Boketon" La Zouchegirl of Lord Eudo La Zouche and Lady Millicent De Cantilupe. She and her parents were also of Royal descent. Lady Lucie de la Zouche was a direct descendant of Henry I of France on her mother'south side. If the 1288 birth and 1297 marriage dates evidence accurate, it would make Thomas all of ix years old when he married Lucie. This could have been an arranged marriage to rejoin the family unit branches and lock in the royal blood line. Lucie's grandfather, Alan La Zouche was a benefactor of the Knights Templars, to whom he gave lands at Sibford, and to the Belmeis family foundation of Buildwas Abbey. Thomas' titles included Sir, Lord of Broughton, 5th Baron Lord de Grene and High

(Family unit dissever and re-connexion five generations later)  Click for larger view

During the reign of Henry IV, 1422-1471, with the attendant French wars, the Patriotic De Greenes dropped the patrician "De" as too Frenchy in sound for Englishmen, as they now considered themselves.

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The De La Zouche Greene Regal Descent     ane. Alfred the Great, King of England (871 - 901 AD)     2. Edward the Elder, Rex of England (901 - 925 Advertizing)     iii. Henry I, Count de Vermandois (1005 - 1060 AD) France -- married Anna.     4. Herbert, Fourth Count de Vermandois (1097 AD) French republic -- married Lady Adelaide of           Valois.     5. Hugh the Slap-up, Count de Vermandois (1120 Advertizement) French republic -- Commander of the          Cause.     vi. Lady Isabel de Vermandois (1085 - 1131 AD) France to England -- married Robert          de Beaumont Abt. 1096, first Earl of Leister, England, who died in 1118 Advert.     seven. Robert de Beaumont, Second Earl of Leister, Lord Justice of England (1104 - ?? AD)          --  married Amicia de Guade or de Gael.     eight. Robert de Beaumont, Third Earl of Leister, Stewart of England (1121 - 1190 AD) --          married the Countess Petronella Greatemesnil.     9. Margaret de Beaumont (1156 - 1235 AD) -- married Saher de Quincey, Earl of          Winchester  (1150 - 1219 Advertising).   10. Robert de Quincey, 2nd Earl of Winchester (??? - 1264 Advertising) -- married Helen          McDonald.   11. Lady Eline de Quincey (??? - 1269 AD) -- married Sir Allen, Baron de la Zouche.   12. Lord Eudo de la Zouche -- married Lady Millicent Cantilupo.   13. Lady Lucy de la Zouche -- married a cousin Sir Thomas de Grene (built-in 1288 Advertizing). 14. Sir Thomas de Grene, Lord of Boughton.   15.Sir Henry de Grene, Lord of Broughton, Chief Justice of England (1353 Advertizing) -- married         Lady Catherine de Drayton.   xvi. Sir Henry de Grene, Lord of Greene Norton.   17. Sir John de Grene, Lord of Drayton -- married Margaret Greene (a cousin).   18. Sir Robert de Greene, Admirer of Bowridge Hall, Gillingham, England.

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