John Browning

• Preferred Name: John Browning^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: FEB 1416 in Notgrove, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.8806 LONG: E1.8435
  
• Spouse: with note: Description: 3 - Agnes Rodborough & Eleanor Fitz Nichol & Alice De Berkley Update
  
• Occupation: Member of Parliament (MP) with note: Update
  
• Death: 6 FEB 1416 in Notgrove, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.8806 LONG: E1.8435
  
• FSID: G6RW-CZ6
  
• Birth: 1369 in Deerhurst, Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.952 LONG: E2.1892
  
• Occupation: Esquire (Esq) with note: Update
  
• Children: with note: Description: 2 Children (Agnes Rodbourgh) & 3 Children (Eleanor Fitz Nichol) & 3 Children (Alice De Berkley) Update
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  John Browning (or Brounyng) was born c.1369 in Gloucestershire, England. The place is most often listed as Nymphfield. He was the son of John Brounyng and Alice Montravers. He married three times and had several children. He served in local politics and was elected MP for Gloucestershire three times.
  
  Most of John's wealth came from his mother's inheritances, but he also made three advantageous marriages. While still a minor, John married Agnes, daughter and co-heir of William Rodborough of Leigh. They had one son, Richard, and one daughter, Cecily. Richard died while still a minor.
  
  His second marriage, to Elinor FitzNichol, daughter of Sir Thomas FitzNichol, brought more prestige than wealth. Sir Thomas was the descendant of Robert, 1st Lord Berkeley. He had two sons with Elinor but died before his father-in-law, and received no wealth.
  
  His third marriage was to Alice Berkeley, widow of Thomas Bridges of Haresfield. Alice was the daughter and co-heir of Thomas Berkeley of Coberley. 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.
  
  Children of John Browning and 1st wife Agnes Rodborough:
  
  1.) Cecily Browning, who married Guy Whittington
  
  2.) Richard Browning, who died while still a minor
  
  Children of John Browning and 2nd wife Elinor FitzNicholl:
  
  1.) John Browning, (1397-1420), died without heirs
  
  2.) William Browning, born 1400, and served in Parliament
  
  === A lot of the material on the Browning f ===
  A lot of the material on the Browning family came from "The Brownings in America, 1621 to 1908" by Edward Frank Browning, southern line of Brownings, English Puritans. Some of the material also came from "Browning Lineage 1370 - 1853 England/Virginia" obtained from the Allen County Public Library, Genealogical Department, Fort Wayne, IN 46801. The family is believed to have originated in what is know today as the low countries of Europe and various parts of Germany. Browning is an Anglo-Saxon word, earlier was Bruning, Brunning, Bruening, Browneing and etc. According to the scholar, John Aaron Browning, the form of the word in high German was Brauning, and in low German, Bruning. These different forms of this name may still be found in parts of Germany.
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Copied from another John Browning entry ===
  John Browning was born about 1380 in Leigh by Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England. He married first Elinor Fitz-Nicoll, the daughter of Thomas Fitz-Nicholl and Margaret, second Katina, and third Alice Berkeley. The children of John Browning and Elinor Fitz-Nicoll were: William Browning was born in Leigh, Gloucestershire, England. He married Anne first, Catherine Dru second and Alice Burton third. John Browning was born about 1398 in Leigh, Gloucestershire, England. Margaret Browning was born about 1402 in Leigh, Gloucestershire, England. She married William Slaughter.
  
  === John Browning was born about 1380 in Le ===
  John Browning was born about 1380 in Leigh by Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England. He married first Elinor Fitz-Nicoll, the daughter of Thomas Fitz-Nicholl and Margaret, second Katina, and third Alice Berkeley. The children of John Browning and Elinor Fitz-Nicoll were: William Browning was born in Leigh, Gloucestershire, England. He married Anne first, Catherine Dru second and Alice Burton third. John Browning was born about 1398 in Leigh, Gloucestershire, England. Margaret Browning was born about 1402 in Leigh, Gloucestershire, England. She married William Slaughter.
  
  === Ancestral File Number: KV2M-GL ===
  Ancestral File Number: KV2M-GL

• m. APR 1408 in Leigh, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

1. Title: Biography of John Browning; History of Parliament Online
   Author: The History of Parliament https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
   Publication: Name: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/browning-john-1369-1416;
   
2. Title: 'Parishes: Staunton', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4
   Author: British History Online 'Parishes: Staunton', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4, ed. William Page and J W Willis-Bund (London, 1924), pp. 197-202. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol4/pp197-202 [accessed 17 July 2022].
   Publication: Name: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol4/pp197-202;
   Note: (excerpt) Robert Whittington, who lived till some time after 1429 (fn. 52) and was Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1402, 1407 and 1412, (fn. 53) was succeeded by his son Sir Guy, who was Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1427 and 1433 (fn. 54) and died in 1441–2. (fn. 55) Sir Guy married Cicely Browning, the heir of John Browning of Leigh (co. Gloucs.). (fn. 56) Leigh was settled on their second son Richard, (fn. 57) and Staunton was apparently settled on him likewise, as he was in possession in 1464–5. (fn. 58) He was succeeded before 1492 (fn. 59) by John Whittington, a clerk in holy orders, (fn. 60) who died seised of Staunton Manor in 1504. (fn. 61) John's two nieces Maud and Isabella, daughters of his brother Richard, were his heirs. (fn. 62) Maud married William Horton (fn. 63) and Isabella married John son of William Rudhale. (fn. 64) In 1516 William Horton was outlawed at Gloucester for having killed John Pauncefoot, (fn. 65) and his moiety of Staunton Manor was granted two years later for the term of Horton's life to William Rudhale and his son John, (fn. 66) Isabella's husband, who thus had the whole manor in his possession. John Rudhale, however, died in 1530, (fn. 67) fifteen years before Horton, (fn. 68) and Isabella his widow married Walter Horton. (fn. 69) A moiety of the manor was apparently restored to William Horton, for he died seised of it in 1545, leaving a son Walter. (fn. 70) From Walter the estate had passed before 1587 to Thomas Horton, (fn. 71) who in 1590 settled it on his son William on his marriage with Mary Gresley. (fn. 72)