Alice Browning

Primary Sources

Nov. 21. 1407 Gloucester.
To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order not to trouble Thomas Brugge, who has taken to wife Alice the second daughter and heir of Thomas Berkeley of Coberley, nor suffer him to be troubled for his homage, releasing any distress upon him made; as for a fine paid in the hanaper the king respited until a day now past the homage of Nicholas Mattesden, who took to wife Margaret one of the said daughters and heirs, and of Thomas Brugge for the purparties of the said Margaret and Alice of their father's lands, due by reason of issue between them and their wives begotten, and commanded livery of those purparties to be given them; and now the king has taken the homage of Thomas Brugge. By p.s. [5443.]

Source: 'Close Rolls, Henry IV: November 1407', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 3, 1405-1409, ed. A E Stamp (London, 1931), pp. 297-301. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen4/vol3/pp297-301 [accessed 3 February 2018].

July 10. 1418 Westminster.
To the escheator in Gloucestershire and the march of Wales adjacent. Order to take the fealty of Giles Brugge, son and heir of Alice who was wife of John Brounynge esquire, and to give him seisin of the lands held by his mother in her demesne as of fee, and those by her held in fee tail to her and the heirs male of her body by Thomas Brugge father of Giles, whose heir he is; as he has proved his age before the escheator, and for 2 marks paid in the hanaper the king has respited his homage until Christmas next.
To the escheator in Worcestershire. Like order in favour of the said Giles; as he has proved his age before the escheator in Gloucestershire etc., and for a fine paid in the hanaper the king has respited his homage to a day yet to come, and has commanded that escheator to take his fealty.
Like writ to the escheator in Oxfordshire

Source: 'Close Rolls, Henry V: June 1418', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry V: Volume 1, 1413-1419, ed. A E Stamp (London, 1929), pp. 464-471. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen5/vol1/pp464-471 [accessed 3 February 2018].

Notes

Alice Berkeley was the daughter of Sir Thomas Berkeley of Coberley and second wife Margaret Chandos. She married first Thomas Bridges of Haresfield. She married second John Browning, as his third wife. John paid a fine for marrying Alice without a royal permit, but the fine was more than offset by the income he received because of the marriage..There were no children of this marriage, but he undertook the care of his stepchildren.