Family Tree Briggs » Richard Briggs (1565-1620)

Personal data Richard Briggs 

• He was born in the year 1565 in Grovesend, Gloucester, England.Source 2
• He was baptized on January 6, 1562 in Fishlake, York, England.Source 4

  Attention: Baptized (January 6, 1562) before born (??-??-1565) .

• He died on April 30, 1620 in Thornbury, Gloucester, England, he was 55 years old.Source 2
• He is buried on April 30, 1620 in Thornbury, Gloucester, England.Source 2
• A child of Johannes Brigge and Johanna Fluellin

Household of Richard Briggs

He is married to Agnis Wingoode.

They got married on October 19, 1590 at Thornbury, Gloucester, England, he was 25 years old.Sources 2, 3

Child(ren):

1. Joane Briggs  ± 1593-???? 
2. John Briggs  1595-1690 
3. Ann Briggs  1597-1597
4. William Briggs  1599-1619

Notes about Richard Briggs

There is recent speculation that Richard is the same man as Richard A. Briggs, born in Sawley, Bolton-by-Bowland, Lancashire, in 1562, married to Rosimon, there, in 1586, but then married to Agnis Wyngod , etc. and later buried in Sawley. I have no proof of this.

Note: speculative-based on TAG article written by Douglas Richardson, published volume 59, 1983; parish records of St. Marys, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England

«u»«b»Gloucestershire Record Office«/u»«/b»
«b»Year«/b» 1620 «b»Surname«/b» bridges «b»Forename«/b» richard «b»Gender«/b» M «b»Parish Reference«/b» thornbury 1620/139 «b»Occupation«/b» husbandman «b»Catalog 1620«/b» cooke richard M thornbury 1620/122 Wills 1541 - 1800

«u»«b»London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 «/u»
about Richard Briggs
Name: «/b»Richard Briggs«b»
Burial Date: «/b»21 Dec 1622«b»
Parish: «/b»St Giles, Cripplegate«b»
County: «/b»London«b»
Borough: «/b»City of London«b»
Record Type: «/b»Burial«b»
Register Type: «/b»Parish Register «i»

«u»«b»«/i»History of Gloucestershire
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia«/u»«i»

«u»«/b»«/i»Ancient extent of Gloucestershire:«/u»«i»

The region now known as Gloucestershire was originally inhabited by Brythonic peoples (ancestors of the Welsh and other British Celtic peoples) in the Iron Age and Roman periods. After the Romans left Britain in the early 5th century, the Brythons re-established control but the territorial divisions for the post-Roman period are uncertain. The city of Caerloyw (Gloucester today, still known as Caerloyw«/i» in modern Welsh language) was one centre and Cirencester may have continued as a tribal centre as well. The only reliably attested kingdom is the minor south-east Wales kingdom of Ergyng , which may have included a portion of the area (roughly the Forest of Dean). «u»In the final quarter of the 6th century the Saxons of Wessex began to establish control over the area.
«/u»
The English conquest of the Severn valley began in 577 with the victory of Ceawlin at Deorham , followed by the capture of Cirencester, Gloucester and Bath . The Hwiccas who occupied the district were a West Saxon tribe, but their territory had become a dependency of Mercia in the 7th century, and was not brought under West Saxon dominion until the 9th century. No important settlements were made by the Danes in the district. Gloucestershire probably originated as a shire in the 10th century, and is mentioned by name in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1016. Towards the close of the 11th century the boundaries were readjusted to include Winchcomb , hitherto a county by itself, and at the same time the forest district between the Wye and the Severn was added to Gloucestershire. The divisions of the county for a long time remained very unsettled, and the thirty-nine hundreds mentioned in the Domesday Survey and the thirty-one hundreds of the Hundred Rolls of 1274 differ very widely in name and extent both from each other and from the twenty-eight hundreds of the present day.

«u»Relics:«/u»«b»

«/b»Gloucester Cathedral and Bristol Cathedral , Tewkesbury Abbey , and the church of Cirencester with its great Perpendicular porch, are historic buildings of Gloucestershire. Of the abbey of Hailes near Winchcomb, founded by Richard, Earl of Cornwall, in 1246, little more than the foundations are left, but these have been excavated with great care, and interesting fragments have been brought to light.

Most of the old market towns have line parish churches . At Deerhurst near Tewkesbury, and Cleeve near Cheltenham, there are churches of special interest on account of the pre-Norman work they retain. The Perpendicular church at Lechlade is unusually perfect; and that at Fairford was built (c. 1500), according to tradition, to contain the remarkable series of stained glass windows which are said to have been brought from the Netherlands . These are, however, adjudged to be of English workmanship, and are one of the finest series in the country. The castle at Berkeley is a splendid example of a feudal stronghold. «u»Thornbury Castle , in the same district, is a fine Tudor ruin, the pretensions of which evoked the jealousy of Cardinal Wolsey against its builder, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham , who was beheaded in 1521.«/u» Near Cheltenham is the fine 15th-century mansion of Southam de la Bere, of timber and stone.

Memorials of the de la Bere family appear in the church at Cleeve. The mansion contains a tiled floor from Hailes Abbey. Near Winchcomb is Sudeley Castle , dating from the 15th century, but the inhabited portion is chiefly Elizabethan. The chapel is the burial place of Queen Catherine Parr. At Great Badminton is the mansion and vast domain of the Beauforts (formerly of the Botelers and others), on the south-eastern boundary of the county.

«u»«b»British History:«/u» Gloucestershire «/b»

Gloucestershire is one of the bigger counties, even after losing part of its southern fringe to Avon in the reorganization of 1972. The balance of the county has been much affected by two great towns. Bristol was a major city with a mint well before the Conquest and in 1373 was given status as a county in its own right. Consequently it was outside county government. Cheltenham was a mushroom development of the late 18th cent., after the celebrated visit by George III in 1789 had helped to spread the fame of its waters.

Roman Gloucestershire was prosperous. A military base was soon established at Gloucester (Glevum); Cirencester (Corinium) became the second largest town in Roman Britain; great villas at Woodchester and at Chedworth testify to the wealth of some of the inhabitants. The local inhabitants were the Dobunni tribe. After the withdrawal of the legions, much of Gloucestershire fell to the Saxons in 577, when Ceawlin of Wessex defeated British chiefs near Cirencester. But Wessex did not long retain the area. In 628, Penda , pagan king of Mercia , defeated the Wessex levies, and took possession. The eastern part became the kingdom of the Hwicce under Mercian overlordship: the western fringes of the Forest of Dean formed part of the autonomous kingdom of the Magonsaetans . This division was reflected in the ecclesiastical organization. The Hwicce territories became part of the see of Worcester , while the Magonsaetans fell under the jurisdiction of Hereford , founded in 676. The area changed hands again, falling once more to Wessex: Athelstan pushed back the Welsh, with the boundary becoming the Wye rather than the Severn, and died at Gloucester in 940.

After the Norman Conquest, Gloucestershire, first named as a county in 1016, was still a frontier region, and the earl of Gloucester had palatine powers. The Cotswold pastures had proved ideal for sheep, and a flourishing cloth industry established itself around Stroud and Dursley. The creation of a bishopric at Gloucester in 1541, after the dissolution of the monasteries, gave a shot in the arm to the county town.

As the cloth industry in the east and mining in the west went into decline, the county's industries diversified— wagon works at Gloucester, aeronautics at Bristol, piano-making, printing, furniture, chemicals, and tourism in the Cotswold valleys. In the 1960s the county was criss-crossed by the M4 running east-west and by the M5 running north-south: the interchange at Almondsbury was briefly a traffic sensation. Even more important was the Severn bridge in 1966 which brought to an end the old Beachley-Aust ferries.

Do you have supplementary information, corrections or questions with regards to Richard Briggs?
The author of this publication would love to hear from you!

Timeline Richard Briggs

Click on the names for more info. Symbols used:  grandparents    parents    brothers/sisters    children