Richard Fowler (abt. 1150 - aft. 1191)

Born about 1150 in Foxley, Buckinghamshire, England

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Biography

Research Notes

Despite the many 17th and 18th century accounts of Sir Richard Fowler who took his archers on the Crusades with Richard the Lionheart, this person likely never existed.

Beginning in the 17th century, a series of authors wrote up "historical" books of the baronetages of England. Public records were not available at the time, so the authors (Collins, Wotten, Kimber and Johnson, Betham and Burke) created and proliferated a good deal of inaccurate information. A common theme was an ancestor who was a hero and had been awarded honors by a famous monarch. The line then skips forward by multiple generations.

The first documented member of this family is Sir John Fowler who appears in the Visitations of Shropshire.

Sources

• Clifford, Thomas. A Topographical and Historical Description of the Parish of Tixall in the County of Stafford (Paris, 1817) Page 37.
• Wotton, Thomas. The Baronetage of England, Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the English Baronets Now Existing (Thomas Wotton, London, 1741) Vol. 4, Page 102.