Joan Fogge

Joan (or Jane) Fogge, Lady Green (c.1469 – c.1490/92-1506) 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, Kent, 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 biographers of Catherine Parr, Linda Porter,and Dr. Susan James, state that Catherine Parr is a great-granddaughter of Sir John Fogge through his daughter Joan. However, in her biography on Katherine, 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. It could be possible that John disowned Joan for unknown reasons, which explains why she is absent on Fogge's will, or that Joan had already died after the birth of her younger daughter Maud when the will was made since some sources state that that Maud was born in 1490, which was around the time that will was written. 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 uncertain.