Sir Henry GREENE

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J.J. Greene writes: "He was in his father's lifetime invested by his cousin, Sir John de Drayton, in the chief seat and lordship of that place, with all the towns, lands, liberties and privileges belonging thereunto, upon condition that from thenceforth he should bear his name and Arms. By his wife he acquired numerous other possessions belonging to the ancient noble house of Maudit. His ambition fomented by these favours of fortune drew him to the Court, where he resolutely joined his hopes and expectations to the fate of that unhappy young Prince, King Richard II, at whose hand he had received the honour of Knighthood. When the conspiracies of the turbulent and seditious Lords had obliged the King to condemn some and banish others, he conferred several parcels of their confiscated lands - those belonging to Thomas, Earl of Warwick, Richard, Earl of Arundel, and Lord Cobham - upon Sir Henry Greene. The rebellion againt the King, however, prospered, and when the Duke of Lancaster's Army 'came like a torrent, bearing all down before it, Sir Henry Greene, that had possessed himself of the Castle of Bristol, and meant to defend for his master to the uttermost, was taken by his perfidious garrison and delivered bound to the Duke, who knowing his constancy to be dangerous and unchangeable, caused him to be beheaded the next day (30th July, 1399) with the Earl of Wiltshire and Sir John Busby' (Halstead)."

Halstead also writes: "Of the origin of the House of Greene we have no certain information, but it is apparent that they assumed their name and arms from an allusion to their principal and beloved Lordship, which was Buckton, or the Town of Bucks, in the County of Northampton, being in hte Hundred of Spellho, a place memorable for the excellency of its soil and situation as a spacious and delightful Green, whom which, at the desire of the Lords, was yearly held and exercised a fair, with particular and extraordinary privileges. Hence they were called Greene, or of the Green. And from Buckton, or the town of Bucks, they have assumed for their arms - in a field azure, three bucks trippant, or, until the division in the family in the two sons of Sir Henry Greene, the great Chief Justice, the second whereof, Sir Henry Greene, the younger, had been obliged by his cousin, Sir John de Drayton, upon his becoming invested in that lordship, to change his own arms and assume those of his family, which were Argent a cross engrailed gules, to him and his posterity ever after."

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Cause: Beheaded at the order of the Duke of Lancaster

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Pedigree of the Family of Greene... Lt. Colonel J.J. Greene
Halstead's Genealogies (1685)
gmartin@hotmail.com Gail Martin
Mormon IGI Record

Henry married Matilda MAUDIT in 1369. (Matilda MAUDIT was born on 6 Nov 1354.)