John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners
difference of three points each charged with three leopards or;[1] 2nd and 3rd: Quarterly or and vert (Berners). Crest: A man's (Moor's) head in profile proper ducally crowned or with a pointed cap gules[2] The mantling is semé with billets or of Lovain, and with water bougets sable and Bourchier knots
John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners, KG (died May 1474) was an English peer.
Bourchier was the fourth son of
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester. Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex, and William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin jure uxoris
, were his elder brothers.
He was knighted in 1426 and in 1455 he was summoned to the
Constable of Windsor Castle from 1461 to 1474.[citation needed
]
Lord Berners married Margery Berners (died 18 December 1475),[3] daughter of Sir Richard Berners and Philippe Dalyngride, daughter of Sir Edward Dalyngridgge.[3]
He died in May 1474 and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson
John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latimer.[4]
His daughter, Elizabeth Bourchier (d. 1470), married Robert Welles, 8th Baron Willoughby de Eresby and survived him by only a few months, and was buried by his side in the church of the Whitefriars in Doncaster. She left a will dated 2 October 1470.[citation needed]
John Bourchier was buried at Chertsey Abbey, in the Runnymede borough of Surrey
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References
- ^ Hope, W. H. St. John, The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485: A Series of Ninety Full-Sized Coloured Facsimiles with Descriptive Notes and Historical Introductions, Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, 1901.
- ^ Vivian, Heralds' Visitations of Devon, 1895, p.106
- ^ ISBN 9780806317526.
- ^ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/2, page 560.
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]