Joan Fogge

Joan, Lady Green
Memorial brass of Joan Fogge at St Bartholomew's Church, Greens Norton.
Born	c.1469 Ashford Borough, England
Died	c.1492-1506 Northamptonshire, England
Buried	St Bartholomew's Church, Greens Norton
Noble family	Fogge (by birth) Green (by marriage)
Spouse(s)	Sir Thomas Green
Issue	Maud Green Anne Green
Parents	Sir John Fogge Alice Haute (uncertain)

Joan (or Jane) Fogge, Lady Green (c.1469 – c.1492-1506) was an English noblewoman. She was the mother of Maud Green,and therefore the maternal grandmother of Catherine Parr the sixth wife of King Henry VIII of England.

Birth and parentage

Jane was born on around 1469 in Ashford Borough, England as the daughter of Sir John Fogge although her parentage is uncertain.

Many sources state that she was indeed the daughter of Sir John Fogge, though other sources state that she was his granddaughter. The official biographer of Catherine Parr, Linda Porter, states that Catherine Parr is a great-granddaughter of Sir John Fogge. When asked for a source, Porter said it came from Dr Susan James. In her biography on Katherine, Susan James states, That Sir Thomas Green had made an advantageous with the granddaughter of Sir John Fogge, treasurer of the Royal household under Edward IV. On Sir John Fogge's will, transcribed by Pearman, states that he had three daughters, Anne, Elizabeth and Margaret, and makes no mention of Jane. Susan E. James, believes that Joan Fogge was the granddaughter of Sir John Fogge, knt.. It could be possible that John disowned Joan for unknown reasons, which explains why she is absent on Fogge's will.

On the Family Chronicle of Richard Fogge of Danes Court in Tilmanstone, it is mentionned in the Fogge family pedigree that Sir John Fogge had four daughters, although only three were named so it is likely that the unnamed daughter is Joan.

Although it is mostly agreed upon that Joan was the daughter of Sir John Fogge, and his second wife Alice Haute, her parentage remains a mystery

Sketch of the tomb of Jane's alleged parents, and step-mother.

Marriage & issue

At an unknown date, probably in the late 1480s, Joan married Sir Thomas Green, the son of Sir Thomas Greene (d.462) and Matilda (Maud) Throckmorton (c.1425-1496). He was a member of the English gentry who died in the Tower of London, where he had been imprisoned for treason. The couple had two daughters, they were:

• Maud Green (6 April 1492 – 1 December 1531), was an English courtier,and lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of King Henry VIII. She married Sir Thomas Parr, the eldest son of Sir William Parr and Elizabeth FitzHugh in 1508. They had three surviving children:

• Catherine Parr in 1512.
• William Parr, Marquess of Northampton in 1513.
• Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke in 1515.

• Anne Green (1489-c.1550 She married Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden, son of Sir William Vaux and Katherine Peniston in 1507, they had five children:

• Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1509-1556)
• William Vaux (d.May 1523)
• Bridget Vaux (married Maurice Walsh bef.1538)
• Margaret Vaux (married Sir Francis Pulteney of Misterton abt.1525)
• Maud Vaux (d.14 Apr 1569)

When Sir Thomas Green died, he left two motherless daughters. As he had no male heirs, his estates passed to the Parr and Vaux families, into which his two daughters married.

Death & burial

Joan's exact date of death remains in obscurity. She would die of unknown causes between 6 April 1492 after the birth of her younger daughter Maud, or before 9 November 1506 when her husband died as it was stated that Maud, and Anne were orphaned when their father passed. Joan was buried at St Bartholomew's Church,in Greens Norton where her parents in-law were buried, and her husband would join her in burial in 1506. A memorial brass of Joan still survives.