Sir Richard Fowler, Kt.

Wikitree: Richard Fowler (abt. 1425–abt. 1477)

• Wikitree names two children that are not named in Richard's Testamenta Vestuta. Not named are Richard (self-sufficient or disinherited?) and Edmund (fictive son).
• Children mentioned named in the source are: "....my daughter Sybil Chamberlayne..." and "....Joan, my daughter, be married to\ Edward Stradlinge, my ward, at the age of fifteen..."

Sir Richard Fowler I

• M, b. circa 1420-1430, d. 3 November 1477
• Richard was born circa 1420-1430 at the Manor of Foxley, Buckinghamshire, England. He was the son of Sir William Fowler and Cecelia Englesfield.
• Richard married Jane Danvers, daughter of Sir John Danvers and Joan Bruley, at Oxfordshire, England. He was a Member of Parliament for Oxford in 1467. He was Knighted by Edward IV in 1467 and was made Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster between 10 June 1462 and 3 November 1477.
• Sir Richard was a very generous benefactor to the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, at Sutton-cum-Buckingham, and in 1470 he added the very large cross aisle, 90 ft. long, to the church. He inherited the Manor of Rycote from his parents. His manors of Rycote, Castle House, Shobendon, Water Stratford, Stokholt, Stutely, Bourton, Mourton, Foscote, and Shaller. It should be noted that he was also seized of the Manor of Stanton Berry, Newport Hundred, by special grant of Edward IV, in 1467.
• In the British Museum, London, there is the Addition Charter, No.20, 321, dated June 28, 27 Henry VI (I 449), to which is attached the seal of Sir Richard Fowler, Knight, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Richard evidently took his Seal from the Rycote Arms, viz: "Argent three wolves heads, erased, gules," his father having married the heiress of Rycote and brought that estate into the Fowler family. This seal proves conclusively that the commission given by Edward IV to Sir Richard, conferring upon him the Chancellorship was not an original one but the renewal of a former one issued by Henry IV. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, New Series, Vol. III, p. 345
• Sources for Sir Richard FOWLER Knight:
  • 1. Craig, F. N., "Ralegh of Farnborough," NEHGR 145:1 (Jan 1991) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), p. 18, Los Angeles Public Library.
  • 2. Craig, F.N., "The Marbury Ancestry: Gernon and Rycote Lines," NEHGR 153:2 (Apr 1999) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), p. 164, Los Angeles Public Library.
  • 3. Dickinson, Wharton, Genealogy of the Fowlers in England and America (New York: T. A. Wright, 1904.), pp. 7-8, Family History Library, 929.273 F829d.
  • 4. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (7th ed., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992.), 14-37, 238-13, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974 W426 1992.
  • 5. Danvers, Gary, Memorials of the Danvers Family, Centennial Edition, 1995 (Palmerston North, New Zealand: G.D. Press, 1995.), Chart 6-7, Chart 6-8, Family History Library, 929.242 D236m 1995.
  • 6. Weis, Frederick Lewis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (5th ed., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999.), pp. 53-12, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.273 W426 1999.
  • 7. Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. [2nd Edition]), p. 79, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974 F228 1999.
  • 8. Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004.), pp. 196, 202, Family History Library, 942 D5rd.
  • 9. Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005.), pp. 174, 185, Family History Library, 942 D5rdm.
  • 10. Turner, William Henry, The Visitations of the County of Oxford, 1566, 1574 & 1634 (London: Harleian Society, 1871.), p. 236, Family History Library, 942 B4h v. 5.
  • 11. Roskell, John Smith, The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421 (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Pub. Ltd., 1992.), 2:142, Family History Library, 942 D3hp 1386-1421.
  • 12. Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (London: J. & W. Robins, 1847.), 2:569, Family History Library, 942.575 H2Li.
  • 13. Lipscomb, G., History & Antiquities of Bucks., 3:484.
  • 14. Seversmith, Herbert Furman, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut: Being the Ancestry & Kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith (Washington: H.F. Seversmith, 1939-1958.), 5:2213, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.2 S4987.

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Richard Fowler, Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster1,2,3

• M, #15621, b. 1420, d. 3 November 1477
• Father: Sir William Fowler b. 1400, d. 2 Jul 1452
• Mother: Cecilia Englesfield
• Richard Fowler, Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster married Joan Danvers, daughter of Sir John Danvers and Joane Bruley.2 Richard Fowler, Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster was born in 1420 at of Sherbourne, Rycott, and Windbush, Oxfordshire, England. He died on 3 November 1477.
• Spouse: Joan Danvers b. c 1422, d. 1505
• Children
  • Sybil Fowler+4,2,3 b. c 1448, d. 1525
  • Sir Richard 'the Foolish' Fowler+ b. 1460, d. 1528
• Citations
  • 1. Unknown author, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 184; Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 27.
  • 2. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 410.
  • 3. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 433.
  • 4. Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 196.
• from: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p520.htm#i...

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Books

• Richardson, Douglas. 2011. Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed. Vol. 1, pp. 410, 433:—
  • 9. RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN, Esq, of Coates (in Titchmarsh), Northamptonshire, Stanbridge (in Leighton Buzzard) and Tilsworth, Bedfordshire, Petsoe (in Emberton), Buckinghamshire, Penshurst, Kent, North Reston, Lincolnshire, Barton St. John, Oxfordshire, etc, born 1436­39, younger son by his father's 2nd marriage. He was heir in 1470 to his older brother, William Chamberlain, Esq. In 1473 he sued Joan, widow of his brother, William Chamberlain, Esq, for the manor of Great Barton, Oxfordshire. He married before 30 Nov. 1476 SIBYL FOWLER daughter of Richard Fowler, of Rycote and Holton, Oxfordshire, Chancellor of the Exchequer to King Edward IV and of the Duchy of Lancaster, by Joan, daughter of John Danvers. They had four sons, Edward, Knt, William (a friar in Greenwich), Thomas, and John, and one daughter, Anne. RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN, Esq, died 28 Aug. 1496. He left a will proved in 1496 (P.C.C. 7 Home). His widow, Sibyl, died in 1525. They were buried at Shirburn, Oxfordshire.
    • Footnotes: Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 329 (ped. of Danvers &c.: “Sibill, sister to Sir Richard Fowler, was maryed to Richard Chamberlain, and they had issue iii sonnes and one doughter. Edward, the eldest sone, now Knight, maryed one of the doughters of Sir John Verney, and they have issue. William, brother to Sir Edward, was a fryer in Grenewiche. His brother John is not maryed; theire sister Anne was fyrst maryed to Edward Rawley, Knight, and they have a sone maryed to Anne, doughter to Sir Humfry Conysby, Knight, and now Justice: and after, the saide Anne Rawley was maryed to Fulchurch, and they have issue.”). Misc. Gen. et Heraldica 1st Ser. 1 (1868): 24-27 (Chamberlain ped.). Harvey et al. Vis. of Oxford 1566, 1574, 1634 & 1574 (H.S.P. 5) (1871): 187 (Danvers ped.), 235-237 (Chamberlaine ped.: “Richardus Chamberlaine fil. & hæres. = Sibilla filia Rici. Fowler de Ricott, Cancellarii Ducatus.”). Lee Hist. Desc. & Antiqs. of...Thame (1883): 292-296 (Quartermain ped.). Genealogist n.s. 19 (1903): 244. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 434. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 340. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 399-417, 433 (errs in stating Richard Chamberlain, died 1496, was “probably” the son of William Chamberlain; Richard and William were actually brothers) (Fowler arms: Azure a cheveron argent between three leopards or with three crosses moline sable in the cheveron). D.N.B, 4 (1908): 7-8 (biog. of Sir Edward Chamberlayne). Rpt. on the MSS of Lord de L'Isle & Dudley Preserved at Penshurst Place 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 77) (1925): 14 (charter of Richard Chamberlain dated 1484; seal with a shield of arms— a chevron between three escallops). Stephenson List of Mon. Brasses (1926): 420. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 193. Pros. Cambridge Antig. Soc. 33 (1933): 61-82. Colket English Anc. of Hutchinson & Scott (1936): 42. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 170-171; 285. NEHGR 138 (1984): 317-320. Bodine Anc. of Dorothea Poyntz (1995): 20. TG 13 (1999): 189–198.

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