John Fowler (1340 - aft. 1412)

Born 1340 in Buckinghamshire, England

Husband of Unknown (Loveday) Fowler — married 1378 in , Berkshire, , England

Descendants

Died after 1412 after age 72 in Buckinghamshire, England

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Biography

Sir John Fowler was a member of the aristocracy in England.

John Fowler, of Foxley in Buckinghamshire, married the heir of Loveday ^[1]

"John Fowler, of Foxley, in Bucks... married the daughter and heir of _____ Loveday, by whom he had one son, Henry Fowler, who married the sister and heir of John Barton, by whom he had issue, Sir William Fowler of Rycote, in the county of Oxford, Knt., who took to wife Cicilia, the only daughter and heir of Sir Nicholas Inglefield, Knt."^[2]

"Of the Fowler family it appears, by various visitations, Sir John Fowler married the heiress of Loveday; Sir Henry Fowler, his son, married Isabella, the sister and at length the heiress of John Barton; and Sir William Fowler, son of Sir Henry, inherited this estate, under the will of John Barton, his uncle, dated June 5, 1431."^[3]

Children

Children of John Fowler and _____ Loveday:^[1][2]

1. Henry, m._____ Barton

Research Notes

Despite the many 17th and 18th century accounts of Sir Richard Fowler, ancestor of Sir John Fowler, who took his archers on the Crusades with Richard the Lionheart, Sir Richard Fowler 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.

Online genealogies commonly use members of the le Fower family, including Reginald and John le Fower of Fowersmill, to fill in the gap. There is no evidence that these families were related.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Tresswell, Robert. The Visitation of Shropshire, Taken in the Year 1623. London: Harleian Society, 1889. Page 189.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Wotton, Thomas, Edward Kimber and Richard A. Johnson. The Baronetage of England, Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the English Baronets Now Existing, Volume 3. London: G. Woodfall, 1771. Page 11-12.
3. ↑ Betham, William. The Baronetage of England, Volume 5. London: Warde and Betham, 1805. Page 529.