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William Bourchier (abt. 1412 - 1471)

Sir William "9th Baron FitzWarin" Bourchier
Born about in Little Eaton, Essex, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 3 Aug 1437 [location unknown]
Husband of — married before 19 Jan 1459 [location unknown]
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Died at about age 59 in Austin Friars, London, Englandmap
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Biography

William Bourchier was the 2nd son of William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu (c. 1374 – 1420) by his wife Anne of Gloucester, Countess of Stafford, the daughter of the Plantagenet prince, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (13th and youngest child of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault) by his wife Eleanor de Bohun elder daughter and coheiress of Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (1341–1373), Earl of Essex and Northampton. He had the following siblings:

  • Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex (1404 – 4 April 1483), eldest brother
  • John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners (1415 – 16 May 1474), younger brother
  • Thomas Bourchier, (ca. 1404 – 30 March 1486), Archbishop of Canterbury and a cardinal, youngest brother
  • Eleanor Bourchier, (ca. 1417 – November, 1474), wife of John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, sister.

William married 1st before 3 August 1437 Thomasine Hankeford.[1][2] She was one of the three daughters and co-heiresses, by his 1st marriage, of Sir Richard Hankford (c. 1397 – 1431) of Annery in Devon, grandson of Sir William Hankford (died 1422), KB, Lord Chief Justice of England. Thomasine's mother (Sir Richard's 1st wife) was Elizabeth FitzWarin, 8th Baroness FitzWarin (c. 1404 – c. 1427), sister and heiress of Fulk FitzWarin, 7th Baron FitzWarin (1406–1420), feudal baron of Bampton, in Devon.

William Bourchier was summoned to Parliament in 1448 as Baron FitzWarin.[3]

William and Thomasine had eight children including:[3]

The British Museum has a document (Addit MSS No 38133) which gives the names and birth dates of all the 8 children of William and Thomasine, but CP says that it is "a careless transcript".[3]

Thomasine died 3 July 1453.[3]

William married 2nd before 9 January 1458/59 Catherine Affeton (d.1467), daughter and heiress of John de Affeton of Affeton, Devon, and widow of Hugh Stucley of Affeton, Sheriff of Devon in 1448.

William Bourchier died on 09 Decomeber 1471.

Both William Bourchier and his wife Thomasine Hankford were buried in Bampton Church. Dugdale quoted the will of his son Fulk Bourchier who bequeathed his body to be buried in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin at Bampton, near the grave of his mother, Lady Thomasine, and he willed that marble stones with inscriptions should be placed on his own grave and that of his father, Lord William, and his mother, Lady Thomasine.

Remnants of former tomb chest said by Pevsner to be that of Thomasine Hankford (d.1453), wife of William Bourchier (1407–1470), north wall of chancel, Bampton Church, Devon. Displays in a row within quatrefoils Bourchier Knots alternating with water bougets of the Bourchier arms.

Sources

  1. King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/24-720/ [Accessed: 13/10/2020] Proof of age for Thomasia, daughter of Richard Hankeford, knight, and Elizabeth lately his wife 1437
  2. Abstracts of Feet of Fines CP 25/1/293/70, number 272. Image of document at AALT
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Complete Peerage 2nd ed. v. 4. pp. 510-511




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I have now removed Anne Unknown as one of William Bourchier's spouses
posted by Michael Cayley
Following on from the previous comment, I am proposing to detach Anne Unknown as a wife of William Bourchier, given the absence of any reliable information that he had a wife of this name. Anne’s profile is unsourced. I will do this in the next day or two unless someone sees a good reason not to.
posted by Michael Cayley
Is there any evidence for an "Anne Unknown" being a wife of William Bourchier? There is no mention of such a wife in Douglas Richardson or other sources, and her profile is completely unsourced. Is this another confusion with his mother Anne of Gloucester? I am minded to detach her as wife, and to propose a merge with Anne of Gloucester.
posted by Michael Cayley
I am detaching Anne of Gloucester as one of his wives: she was his mother, as is well evidenced in Douglas Richardson, Cokayne and other sources, and as is also shown on this profile.
posted by Michael Cayley
Added DOB per bio
posted by C. Mackinnon
Bourchier-359 and Bourchier-73 appear to represent the same person because: Hello - these two profiles seem to represent the same person. Similar(not exact) birth and death dates and the same parents.
posted by Jeff Fox

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