JOHN NORWOOD

John Norwood, d ca 1509, son of John and Elizabeth Elton Norwood, went to Gloucestershire.  John Norwood courted and married Eleanor Gifford, d ca 1496, dau of Sir John and Ann Gifford, a powerful family of Gloucestershire.  Eleanor brought Leckhampton Manor to the Norwood family.  Leckhampton was built in the fourteenth century; the unique Tudor chimneys and the fine perpendicular porch were added by John Norwood.  For more than 300 years, the Norwood family lived here in great splendor, and although they suffered with the Royalists in the Civil Wars, they again came into their own at the restoration of Charles II.  For generations this branch of the Norwood family continued to make successful marriages that connected them to the Nobility and the Royalty of England.  Among these families are the Lygons of Madresfield Court in Worcestershire, the Throckmortons of Caughton Court in Worcestershire, the Berkeleys of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire and John, Duke of Lancaster, son of Edward III, King of England.

Children of John and Eleanor Gifford Norwood

I.  Roger Norwood
 

 

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