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:
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.
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