Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin (25 October 1445 – 18 September 1479) was the son and heir of

William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin William Bourchier (1407–1470) '' jure uxoris'' 9th Baron FitzWarin, was an English nobleman. He was summoned to Parliament in 1448 as Baron FitzWarin in right of his wife Thomasine Hankford. He was the second son of William Bourchier, 1st Co ...

(1407–1470) and the father of

John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath (20 July 1470 – 30 April 1539) was named Earl of Bath in 1536. He was feudal baron of Bampton in Devon. Origins John Bourchier was born in Essex, England, the eldest son and heir of Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron F ...

. He was

feudal baron of Bampton The feudal barony of Bampton was one of eight feudal baronies in Devonshire which existed during the mediaeval era, and had its ''caput'' at Bampton Castle within the manor of Bampton. Descent Domesday Book The Domesday Book of 1086 lists ' ...

in Devon.

Origins

Fulk Bourchier was the eldest son and heir of

(1407–1470) by his wife Thomasine Hankford, a daughter and coheiress of Sir

Richard Hankford Sir Richard Hankford (c. 1397–1431) was holder by right of his wife (''jure uxoris'') of the feudal barony of Bampton and part of the feudal barony of Barnstaple in Devon, England. Biography He was the son of Richard Hankford (died 1419), MP fo ...

(c. 1397 – 1431) of Annery, Devon, feudal baron of Bampton.

Marriage and issue

Fulk Bourchier married Elizabeth Dynham (died 19 October 1516), the daughter of Sir John Dinham (1406–1458) of

Nutwell Nutwell in the parish of Woodbury on the south coast of Devon is a historic manor and the site of a Georgian neo-classical Grade II* listed mansion house known as Nutwell Court. The house is situated on the east bank of the estuary of the Ri ...

by his wife Joan Arches (died 1497), and sister and coheir of

John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham, KG (c. 1433–1501) of Nutwell in the parish of Woodbury and of Hartland, both in Devon, was an English peer and politician. He served as Lord High Treasurer of England and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was ...

(died 1501). After the death of Fulk Bourchier, Elizabeth Dynham remarried twice, firstly to Sir John Sapcotes (died 1501) of

Elton, Huntingdonshire Elton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Elton lies approximately south-west of Peterborough. Elton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a ...

; a stained glass heraldic escutcheon survives in Bampton church showing the arms of Sapcotes

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Dinham. After the death of Sapcotes, Elizabeth Dynham remarried secondly to

Sir Thomas Brandon Sir Thomas Brandon, of Southwark, Surrey, and of Duddington, Northamptonshire, KG (died 27 January 1510) was an English soldier, courtier and diplomat. Life He was from a Lancastrian family, the son of William Brandon (died 1491) of Sout ...

(died 27 January 1510) of

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. There was no issue of Elizabeth Dynham's marriage to Thomas Brandon, and according to Gunn, after his death she took a vow of celibacy before Bishop Fisher on 21 April 1510. She died 19 October 1516, and was buried in the

Greyfriars, London In London, the Greyfriars was a Conventual Franciscan friary that existed from 1225 to 1538 on a site at the North-West of the City of London by Newgate in the parish of St Nicholas in the Shambles. It was the second Franciscan religious ...

. By Elizabeth Dynham, Fulk Bourchier had the following children: *

(20 July 1470 – 30 April 1539) *Joan Bourchier (died 3 March 1532), second wife of

James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley (c. 146328 June 1497) was a British nobleman and the only lord to fully join the Cornish rebellion of 1497 opposing the rule of Henry VII of England. He was a leader in the rebel army's march to the edge of Londo ...

, who was beheaded 28 June 1497 on

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for his part in the Cornish rebellion, and buried at the

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. *

Elizabeth Bourchier Elizabeth Cromwell (née Bourchier; 1598–1665) was the wife of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland; and the mother of Richard Cromwell, the second Lord Protector. Family and marriage Eliz ...

(before 1473 – 8 August 1557) who married, as his second wife, Sir Edward Stanhope (1462 – 6 June 1511), by whom she was the mother of

Anne Stanhope Anne Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (''née'' Weld-Forester; 7 September 1802 – 27 July 1885) was known as a political confidante. Life Stanhope was born in 1802, the eldest daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, M. ...

(c. 1497 – 1587), the second wife of

Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (150022 January 1552) (also 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp), also known as Edward Semel, was the eldest surviving brother of Queen Jane Seymour (d. 1537), the third wife of King Henry VI ...

(c. 1500 – 1552), brother of Queen

Jane Seymour Jane Seymour (c. 150824 October 1537) was List of English consorts, Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII of England from their Wives of Henry VIII, marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen followi ...

, uncle of King Edward VI and

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. The Duchess's monument and effigy survives in Westminster Abbey and displays profusely the Bourchier arms and

Bourchier knot The Bourchier knot is a variety of heraldic knot. It was used as a heraldic badge by the Bourchier family, whose earliest prominent ancestor in England was John de Bourchier (alias Boucher, Boussier, etc., d. c. 1330), a Judge of the Common ...

Death and burial

Bourchier died 18 September 1479 at the age of thirty-three. In his will, dated 1 April 1475 and proved 10 November 1480, he requested burial in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin at

Bampton, Devon Bampton is a small town and parish in northeast Devon, England, on the River Batherm, a tributary of the River Exe. It is about north of Tiverton, 19 miles (31 km) north of Exeter and the parish borders Somerset on its north-east and nort ...

, next to the tomb of his mother, the Lady Thomasine. He left the residue of his estate to his wife, Elizabeth Dynham, whom he made his sole executrix.

Dugdale, quoting the will of Fulk Bourchier, shows that his father, William Bourchier, and his mother, Thomasine Hankford, are also buried at Bampton, as he bequeathed his body to be buried 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..

Notes

References

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External links

Will of Fulk Bourchier, proved 10 November 1480, National Archives
Retrieved 5 April 2013
Will of Sir Thomas Brandon, proved 11 May 1510, National Archives
Retrieved 5 April 2013

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