Roger Fowler, of Broomhill

He was seated at Broomhill in Norfolk.

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Per his DNB entry, Rowland Lee had a brother, George, and a sister, Isabella who "married Roger Fowler of Bromehill, Norfolk, of an ancient Buckinghamshire family; by their early deaths their five sons and three daughters came under the care of Lee, who married the daughters, and divided the St. Thomas estates among his four surviving nephews, descendants of one of whom are still seated in Staffordshire (Inquisitio post mortem of Lee; letters in Record Office)."

Descent

Brian Fowler. Family and Education b. by 1526, 2nd s. of Roger Fowler of Norf. by Isabel or Sybil, da. of William Lee of Morpeth, Northumb.; bro. of James. m. by 1551, Jane, da. and h. of John Hanmer of Bettisfield, Flints., 5s. 8da.1

Offices Held J.p. Staffs. 1547-64 or later, q. by 1573/74-5, q. Flints. 1564; escheator, Staffs. 1550-1; commr. relief 1550.2

Biography Brian Fowler’s father, a distant kinsman of the family seated at Rycote, Oxfordshire, was a man of small means who became a member of the garrison of Berwick but was killed in action against the Scots. The widow’s death by 1538 left eight orphans in the care of her brother Rowland Lee, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, who was the eldest son’s godfather. Lee did his best for them, seeking in particular a grant of the Augustinian priory of St. Thomas near Stafford, which on its dissolution in 1539 he asked for ‘at an easy rate that the poor boys, my nephews, may have some relief thereby’. Under a settlement of 1540 Brian Fowler received the site and most of the property when his uncle died three years later, the remainder being divided between his three surviving brothers.3

Roger Fowler wikiTree prfile #1

• Born 1506 in Foxley, Breckland, Norfolk, England
• Son of Edward Fowler and Margaret Colwick
• [sibling%28s%29 unknown]
• Husband of Sybil Lee — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
• Father of
• >Katherine Fowler,
• >Thomas Fowler,
• >Henry Fowler,
• >Alice Fowler and
• >William Fowler

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Roger: “Fought in the Scottish wars in 1534. His sons became attached to the reformed religion.married Cecelia [Isabel] Lee, daughter of William Lee, Esq., Treasurer of Berwick (son of Thos. Lee of Morpeth, Eng. and Trollop). Cecelia's [Isabel] brother was Rev. Rowland Lee, chaplain to King Henry Vii and he married Henry to Anne Boleyn. He was made Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry. He had no children and left his property to his nephews, including Roger and Cecelia.”

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fowler-10006
• “A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great ..., Volume 1” By Sir Bernard Burke. Page 361. GoogleBooks
• “ The Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland,” by John Burke (1835). Page 376. GoogleBooks shows as son or grandson of Thomas Fowler Esq, & Margery Colville and of Broomhill in Stafford.
• “An Historical Sketch and Genealogical Record of the Fowlers of Milford, Conn” By John William Fowler. Page 9. GoogleBooks calls her Cecilia Lee.
• https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00523362&tree=LEO shows this Roger Fowler as son of Edward Fowler of Twickenham and Alice. Edward was son of Thomas Fowler and Margaret Colville.
• The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire 1614, 1663 and 1664 1885, Grazebrook, H. Sydney (editor). 134 GoogleBooks