John ROGERS

John married Elizabeth SHOTTESBROKE in 1429. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anne DE ECHYNGHAM about 1446. Anne (daughter of Sir Thomas DE ECHYNGHAM and Margaret KNYVETT) died on 07 May 1498. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henry ROGERS was born on 01 Mar 1448.

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Excerpt from Lineage of the Rogers Family: He purchased 'Benham-Valence' and other properties in Berks, and bouth 'Bryanstone, ' Dorset, which became the principal seats of the family. He was the entailed Lord of the vast Furneaux estates, and is alleged to have earned & Received Knighthood, through recognition of military service performed. Besides his numerous entailures, he amassed a very considerable personal property; and altogether, was the representative of one of the wealthiest families of his section of England. The issue of marriage brought to his wife & himself two sons, John the eld. and Thomas; and he d. 1441 10/4, at Bryanstone, and their quartered escutcheon was carved on the tablet of his tomb, in St. Martin's Church there. His will was dated 21 Sep. and prov. 10 Nov., the yr. of his death; and afterward, the prefix of 'Fitz' to the Roger name was dropped and ultimately a terminal s added. Because of his great riches, ability, and prominence; he has genereally been accredited as the known Rogers patriarch of England, instead of his father.

John married Agnes DE MERCAUNT in 1406. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Excerpt from Samuel Richardson and Josiah Ellsworth from genealogy library:
Sir Tancred de Huntville b. ca 970; d after 1058, a nobleman of Huntville Contances, Normandy; m 1st ca 992 moriella; 2nd ca 1013 Fredistand. There were several sons; among them Robert, Roger, and william. Robert Gniscord b 1015 became a great general commanding Norman Troops in Italy, and was created Duke of Apailia in 1059; King of Naples and other homors. He died 1085. The Rogers family have the right to bear the Coat-of-Arms accredited to Grand Count Roger of Sicily. Aaron, John Fitx Rogers was born in Italy 1260-70, but forced to flee from Rome to England. He was a merchant."

John married Elizabeth DE FURNEAUX in 1385. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Symon DE FURNEAUX and Alice DE UMFRAVILLE) was born in 1330. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth is the daughter of Sir Symon de Furneaux of Ashington, widow of Sir John Blout. She was very wealthy and ninth generation in direct line from Odo de Fornell b. about 1040 in Normandy who came to England with William the Conqueror.

Excerpt from "Lineage of the Rogers Families - England": sole heiress of her father; m. twice; First ab. 1350, Sir John Blount, Knt., Constable of the Tower, by whom she had issue of a dau. Alice, b. possibly as early as 1351. Sir John d. abt. 1384, leaving an attractive and wealthy widow, whose inherited large estates amounted to eight Knights' feees and a quarter; and in her widowhood - 8 Richd. II (1385), she founded a Chantry in the 'Abbey of Athelney' for two chaplains to say mass daily (except Good-Friday), for the good estate of herself - the Lady Elizabeth; the Lady Alice Stafford (her daughter), and other friends & Benefactors of herself; and for the souls of Sir John Blount, Sir Symon de Furneaux and Alice his wife, for Sir Henry de Umfraville and Isabel his wife, for many others by name, and for all of her friends and benefactors deceased - annual orbits to be kept of all the persons she names. Her dau. Lady Alice Blount, m. twoce; First, Sir Richard Stafford, Knt,; secondly, Sir Richard Stury, Knt., ..
The wid. Dame Elizabeth (Furneaux) Flount, having thus comforted her conscience with regard to her deceased husband, relatives and friends; still in her mature healath, appearance & worldly prosperity, was open for consolation - therefor, abt. 1385/6, she consented to a 2d. matromonial alliance, and m. John Fitz Roger, Gent.; and became the patriarchal mother of the later, distinguished Roger-Furneaux family of England. This man & woman werre approximately the same age, though the groom may have been a few yrs. younger than this bride.