Text this colour links to Pages. Text this colour links to Family Trees. Place the mouse over images to see a larger image. Click on paintings to see the painter's Biography Page. Mouse over links for a preview. Move the mouse off the painting or link to close the popup.
Cowdray House is in Cowdray Midhurst.
Before 1493 David Owen (age 33) and Mary Bohun (age 24) were married by which Owen came into possession of Cowdray House [Map] when Mary inherited it from her father John Bohun.
Around 1493 Ann Owen was born to David Owen (age 34) and Mary Bohun (age 25) in Cowdray House [Map].
Around 1500 Henry Owen was born to David Owen (age 41) and Mary Bohun (age 32) in Cowdray House [Map].
Around 1520 David Owen (age 61) began construction of Cowdray House [Map] on the site of the former manor house that he had inherited from his wife Mary Bohun.
In 1529 Henry Owen (age 29) sold Cowdray House [Map] to William Fitzwilliam 1st Earl of Southampton (age 39).
In 1533 Henry VIII (age 41) granted William Fitzwilliam 1st Earl of Southampton (age 43) to inpark 600 acres of meadow, pasture and wood and build fortifications at Cowdray House [Map].
In November 1538 Margaret York aka Pole Countess of Salisbury (age 65) was imprisoned in Cowdray House [Map] until Sep 1539.
In July 1539 Henry VIII (age 48) visited Cowdray House [Map].
In July 1539 Henry VIII (age 48) visited Cowdray House [Map].
On 15th October 1542 William Fitzwilliam 1st Earl of Southampton (age 52) died at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland [Map]. Earl of Southampton extinct. Anthony Browne (age 42) inherited Cowdray House [Map].
In August 1545 Henry VIII (age 54) visited Cowdray House [Map].
On 6th May 1548 Anthony Browne (age 48) died at Byfleet, Surrey. He was buried at Senlac Hill Hastings. Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu (age 19) inherited Cowdray House [Map].
In October 1551 Mary of Guise Queen Consort Scotland (age 35) stayed the night in Cowdray House [Map].
In July 1552 King Edward VI of England and Ireland (age 14) visited Cowdray House [Map].
On 22nd July 1552 twins Anthony Browne and Mary Browne Countess Southampton were born to Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu (age 23) and Jane Radclyffe at Cowdray House [Map]. Their mother died in childbirth although Henry Machen's diary reports her death in 1553.
On 6th October 1573 Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton was born to Henry Wriothesley 2nd Earl of Southampton (age 28) and Mary Browne Countess Southampton (age 21) at Cowdray House [Map].
On 15th August 1591 Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 57) arrived at Cowdray House [Map] the home of Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu (age 62) and Magdalen Dacre Viscountess Montague (age 53). She was welcomed by a breakfast for some 300 guests. George Browne (age 36) was knighted. Henry Browne organised the hunting. Elizabeth stayed until the 21 Aug 1591.
On 19th October 1592 Anthony Maria Browne 2nd Viscount Montagu (age 18) inherited Cowdray House [Map]. During his tenure Guy Fawkes was briefly employed as a footman and, as a consequence, Anthony Maria Browne 2nd Viscount Montagu was briefly imprisoned for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot.
All About History Books
The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1770 Anthony Joseph Browne 7th Viscount Montagu (age 40) commissioned Capability Brown (age 53) to landscape Cowdray House [Map].
On 24th September 1793, during restoration work, a fire started in the carpenter's workshop in the North Gallery of Cowdray House [Map] resulting in the destruction of the house and its contents bar three paintings.
In 1843 Cowdray House [Map] was sold to George Perceval 6th Earl Egmont (age 48) at Shelley, Kirkburton.
In 1908 Augustus Perceval 8th Earl Egmont (age 52) sold Cowdray House [Map] to Weetman Dickinson Pearson 1st Viscount Cowdray (age 51).
John Bohun constructed a fortified manor house at Cowdray House [Map] naming it Coudreye which means Hazel Woods in Norman French.
The River Rother rises at Empshott, Hampshire [Map] from where it flows through Liss, Hampshire [Map], Sheet, Hampshire [Map], past Rogate [Map], Trotton [Map], Chithurst [Map], Iping [Map], Stedham [Map], Easebourne Midhurst [Map] and Cowdray House [Map], South Ambersham [Map], Selham [Map], Coultershaw Bridge [Map], Lower Fittleworth [Map] after which it joins the River Arun one km before Pulborough [Map].