'Bourchier1'
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Families covered: Bourchier of Bath, Bourchier of Essex, Bourchier of Ewe (Eu), Bourchier Lord FitzWarine
| BE1883 ('Bourchier of Essex') identifies the arms of those earls as "Arg., a cross engrailed, gu., between four water bougets, sa.". | |||||||||||||||
| Sir John de Burcer (Bourchier) of Stansted Hall (Justice) | |||||||||||||||
| m. Helen (dau of Walter de Colchester) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Robert de Bourchier, 1st Lord, Chancellor of England (d 1349) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Prayers (dau of Sir Thomas Prayers of Sible-Hedingham) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Sir John Bourchier, 2nd Lord, Governor of Flanders (b 03.1329, d 21.05.1400) generation omitted by Ducatus Leodiensis | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Coggeshall (dau of Sir John Coggeshall) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Bartholomew Bourchier, 3rd Lord (d 1409) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Margaret (widow of Sir John de Sutton) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Idonea Lovey (d 12.09.1410) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Elizabeth Bourchier, Baroness Bourchier (d 1432) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir Hugh Stafford (dsp) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir Lewis Robsart (dsp 1431, standard bearer) | |||||||||||||||
| B. | William Bourchier (d 1365) the first mentioned by Vivian | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alionora Louvaine (dau of Sir John de Louvaine) | |||||||||||||||
| Vivian inserts an additional generation, showing Sir John Bourchier father of the following William by _ Cockfall. Thart is not supported by other sources such as TCP ('Eu'). Foster shows father William as son of Bartholomew, Lord Bourcher, and brother of Batholomew father of Elizabeth. | |||||||||||||||
| i. | William Bourchier, 1st Earl of Ewe (Eu) (d 28.05.1420) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (20.11.1405) Anne Plantagenet, Countess (b 1383, d 16.10.1438, dau of Thomas Plantagenet of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Ewe, 1st Earl of Essex (d 04.04.1483) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Isabel (Elizabeth) Plantagenet (d 02.10.1484, dau of Richard Plantagenet of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | William Bourchier (dvp) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Widvile (d 30.07.1489, dau of Sir Richard de Wydeville of Grafton, 1st Earl Rivers) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex (b by 1472, d 13.03.1539/40) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c1498) Mary Say (a 06.1535, dau of Sir William Say of Broxbourne and Essenden by Elizabeth, dau of Chief Baron Sir John Fray) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Anne Bourchier | ||||||||||||||
| m. (09.02.1526, div 1551) William Parr, Earl of Essex, Marquess of Northampton (d 28.10.1571) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Cecily Bourchier | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir John Devereux, 2nd Lord Ferrers of Chartley (b 1463, d 05.03.1500-1) | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Sir Henry Bourchier (dsp c08.1458) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Scales (dau of Thomas, Lord Scales) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Sir Humphrey Bourchier, Lord Cromwell (dsp Barnet Field 1471) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Stanhope (dau of Sir Richard Stanhope of Rampton by Maud, sister of Lord Ralph Cromwell) | |||||||||||||||
| (4) | Sir John Bourchier (d 1495) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Elizabeth Ferrers (b 1419, d by 23.01.1482/3, dau of Sir Henry Ferrers, younger of Groby) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (before 06.07.1490) Elizabeth Chichele (d 02.04.1499, dau of John Chichelle of Wimpole) | |||||||||||||||
| (5) | Sir Thomas Bourchier | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Isabel Barre (dau of Sir John Barre, widow of Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Devon) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Anne Andrews (d 25.07.1520, dau/coheir of John Andrews of Baylham & Weston, widow of Sir John Sulyard) | |||||||||||||||
| (6) | Sir Edward Bourchier (d Wakefield) | ||||||||||||||
| (7)+ | other issue (d young) - Fulke, Isabel | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor (b 1404, d 30.03.1486) | ||||||||||||||
| c. | Sir William Bourchier, 1st Lord FitzWarine (d c1470) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Thomasine Hankeford (dau of Richard Hankeford or Hanford by Elizabeth FitzWarine) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir Fulke Bourchier, 2nd Lord FitzWarine (d 18.09.1479) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Dynham (d 19.10.1516, sister of John, Lord Dynham) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath (d 30.04.1539) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Cecilia Daubeney (dau of Giles Daubeney, 6th/1st Lord) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (b c1499, d 10.02.1560) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Elizabeth Hungerford (dau of Sir Walter Hungerford) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Elizabeth Bourchier (a 1561) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Eleanor Manners (dau of Sir George Manners of Belvoir, etc, 12th Lord Ros) | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | John Bourchier, Lord FitzWarine (dvp 28.02.1556) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Frances Kitson (d 1586, dau of Sir Thomas Kitson of Hengrave) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath (d 12.07.1623) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (07.08.1583) Elizabeth Russell (d 24.03.1605, dau of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Sir Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath (d 1636) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Dorothy St. John (dau of Sir John St. John of Bletso by Dorothy, dau of Sir John Rede) | |||||||||||||||
| ((i)) | Elizabeth Bourchier (b 1622, dsp 22.09.1670) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (08.07.1641) Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh (b c1608, dsp 28.11.1675) | |||||||||||||||
| ((ii)) | Dorothy Bourchier (bpt 24.09.1626, a 1660) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (c04.06.1646) Thomas Grey (b 1623, dvp before 08.05.1657) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Gustavus Mackworth (d 08.1659) | |||||||||||||||
| ((iii)) | Anne Bourchier (b c1628, bur 09.09.1662) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (03.03.1645/6) James Cranfield, 2nd Earl of Middlesex (b 11.1621, bur 13.09.1651) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (1653) Sir Chichester Wrey, 3rd Bart of Trebitch (b 1628, bur 17.05.1668) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (1633) Anne Lovet (dau of Sir Robert Lovet of Liscombe by Anne Saunders) | |||||||||||||||
| ((B))+ | other issue - Richard (dsp), Frances (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| (c) | Sir George Bourchier (a 1580, General, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Martha Howard (dau of William Howard, 1st Lord of Effingham) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Sir Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath (dsp 15.08.1654) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (13.12.1638) Rachael Fane (dsp 11.11.1680, dau of Francis Fane, Earl of Westmoreland) | |||||||||||||||
| (d) | Mary Bourchier | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1535 (probably not 28.11.1566)) Hugh Wyot of Exeter | |||||||||||||||
| (e) | Cecilia Bourchier | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Peyton of Plymouth | |||||||||||||||
| (f)+ | other issue - Henry, Fulke | ||||||||||||||
| m3. Margaret Donington (b c1509, d 20.12.1561, dau of John Donington (not Dodington)) | |||||||||||||||
| (h) | Susannah Bourchier (a 1561) | ||||||||||||||
| (i) | Bridget Bourchier (a 1561) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas or Arthur Price of Vaynor | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Elizabeth Bourchier (d 23.08.1548) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edward Chichester (dvp 07.1522) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Dorothy Bourchier | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir John Fulford | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Walter Dennis of Holcombe | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Florence Bonville (b 1472, dsp 10.1524, dau of John Bonville of Halnaker, widow of Sir Humphrey Fulford) | |||||||||||||||
| m3. Elizabeth Wentworth (a 1542, dau of Sir Henry Wentworth of Nettlestead) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Joane Bourchier | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c12.1488) James Touchet, 7th Lord Audley (b c1463, d 28.06.1497) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Elizabeth Bourchier | ||||||||||||||
| Vivian reports that this Elizabeth m1. _ Beaumont, m2. _ Verney, m3. Sir Edward Stanhope, m4. Sir Nicholas Pigot. BE1883 identifies her husbands as ... | |||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir Edward Stanhope of Rampton (d 06.06.1512) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir Richard Page | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Blanche Bourchier (d 04.01.1483) mentioned by Vivian | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Philip Beaumont | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Batholomew St. Leger of Kent | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Catherine | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Elizabeth Bourchier | ||||||||||||||
| d. | John Bourchier of West Horsley, 1st Lord Berners (d 16.05.1474) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margery Berners (d 18.12.1475, dau of Sir Richard Berners of West Horsley) | |||||||||||||||
| e. | (Anne or) Eleanor Bourchier (d 11.1474) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1424) John Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (d 06.11.1461) | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | John de Bourchier | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): BE1883 ('Bourchier of Essex'), BE1883 ('Bourchier of FitzWarine, Bath'), Visitation (J.L. Vivian (1895), Devon, 1531+1564+1620+additions, 'Bourchier', p106+), Visitation (Foster, Yorkshire, 1584, 'Bourchier of Benningborough, &c.')
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