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- Sir Henry Green (ca. 1347 - 1399) was a courtier and councillor of Richard II.
He was born in Greene's Norton, Northamptonshire to Sir Henry Green, a lawyer and Chief Justice. He inherited Drayton House in Northamptonshire on his father's death in 1370.
He became a JP in 1380 and MP for Huntingdonshire in 1390, for Northamptonshire in 1394 and 1397 and finally in the autumn of 1397 MP for Wiltshire. He also served in France with John of Gaunt.
He became a close confidante of King Richard II. Along with Sir John Bussy and Sir William Bagot he was appointed one of the eccentric Richard's 'continual councillors' who gained an unsavoury reputation. At one point they advised the king to confiscate the lands of the exiled Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Hereford.
When Bolingbroke returned from exile in 1399 to reclaim his inheritance, the three councillors decided flight was the best option. Bussy and Green sought sanctuary in Bristol Castle but were delivered up to Bolingbroke on 23 July 1399, who had them beheaded the following day.
He had married Maud (or Matilda) Mauduit, the daughter of Thomas de Mauduit. He had several children and was succeeded by Ralph.
All three continual councillors (referred to as caterpillars) feature in Shakespeare's historical play King Richard II. Green also appears in the anonymous Elizabethan play Thomas of Woodstock.
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Abt 1347 - 1399 (~ 52 years)
