Maude (Matilda) Greene

Matilda “Maude” Throckmorton m. 1) Sir Thomas Greene, of Green’s Norton 2) Richard Middleton of Great Linford, Bucks, MP.

Matilda Throckmorton was born in 1425. She was the daughter of Sir John de Throckmorton. She married Sir Thomas Greene, son of Sir Thomas Greene and Phillippa Ferrers. Her married name became Greene.1 She was also known as Maud Throckmorton.

Children of Matilda Throckmorton and Sir Thomas Greene

1. Anne Greene, of Green's Norton
2. Sir Thomas Greene+ b. c 1461, d. 9 Nov 1506

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Origins

Nicolas, Nicholas Harris. Testamenta Vetusta (Nichols & Son, London, 1826) Vol. 1, Page 248: “Will of Sir John Throckmorton, Knt.” < GoogleBooks >

John Throckmorton, Knight', 1445. My wife, Eleanor; my eldest daughter, wife of John Russell; my second daughter, wife of Thomas Winslowe; my third daughter, wife of John Rous; my fourth daughter, married to Robert Giffard; my fifth daughter, wife of Thomas Green; my sixth daughter, married to Richard Knightley. I appoint my sons, Thomas and John', and my wife Eleanor, my executors; and Sir Ralph Boteler, Lord of Sudley, and Treasurer of England, overseer of this my Will *.

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The tomb of Sir Thomas Greene and Maud, his wife, in Greene's Norton Church is described on page 43 of Boutell's Monumental Brasses of England as follows:

"1462 Sir Thomas Grene and Matilda Throckmorton his wife, Green's Norton Church, Northamptonshire. This knight wears over his steel breast plate a demi-placate, and he has a lance rest screwed upon the armour which covers his breast on the right side. The two pouldrons are not very dissimilar and they are finished above by a serrated ridge some what resembling the back fin of a fish. This appears to be prototype of the passe-guards of a later period. The coudieres are large, and also serated like the pauldrons. About the throat is a collar or mentoniere of mail: the head and hands are bare; the former rests upon a tilting-helmet, now despoiled of its crest: the latter are clasped and uplifted as in prayer. The figure below the waist is drawn in such a manner as to represent the knees as turned outwards: the joints of the armour inside the legs are, consequently and the singularly formed genouillieres with their back plates, and also the tuilles are seen in profile. The sollents are still pointed. Between the tuilles appears the skirt of a haketon, and over this a baguette of mail. The sword is girded at the left side almost perpendicularly, by a narrow belt: and from this same belt a misericorde of unusual size is suspended in front of the person. The lady is in a widows habit: she wears a kirtle, a mantle a flowing kerchief upon the head, and a barbe beneath the chin. Beneath the larger effigies were smaller figures of their four children: but these which were severally labelled Thomas, (???), John, and Elizabeth have all disappeared except the last. Of four shields originally placed at the angles of the composition, two only remain: these bear Grene impaling Ferras, and Grene and Mablethorpe quarterly. This fine and interesting brass was originally fixed upon an altartomb: but this now destroyed, and the brass lies upon the pavement of the chancel.

The border legend has been preserved and is as follows:

HIC JACET THOMAS GRENE MILES DNS DE NORTON ET MATILDA UX EI QUI VERO THOMAS FUIT FILI ET HERES THOME GRENE MILIT DE EADM, ET PHILLIPEE UXIS EIUS FILIE ROBERTI DNI FFERRAIRS DE CHARTELY ET ELIZABETH UXORIS EIUS FILLIE THOME DNI LE SPENCER QUI QUIDM, THOMAS GRENE PATER FREFATI THOME GRENE FUIT FILUIS ET HERES THOME GRENE MILITIS DNI DE NORTON PREDCA? AT MARIE UXIS EIUS FILIE RICI DNI TALBOT ET ANKNETE UXORIS EIMS FILIE ET HERED, JOHNIS DNI STRANGE DE BLAKEMERE QUI QUIDM PFATUS THOMAS FILIUS PDCOR THOME ET PHILIPPE OBIJT IX DIE MEUS SEPTEMBRIS ANNO DNI MILLIUS CCCC LXII ET PFATA MATILD UNA FILIARUM JOHIS THROCKMORTON ARMIGERI SUBTHERAURARIJ ANGL OBIJT (???) DIE MEUS (???) ANNO MILO CCCC (???) QR AIABUS PPICIETUR SENS AMEN."

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The Genealogist, Vols. 13-14 (Subscription req. for full access) https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Genealogist/za9nAAAAMAAJ?h... pp. 26-27].

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