Coat of Arms of Sir John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners, KG

John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners, KG (died May 1474) was an

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peer. Bourchier was the fourth son of

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, and his wife Anne of Woodstock, Countess of Buckingham, daughter of

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Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex Henry Bourchier, 5th Baron Bourchier, 2nd Count of Eu, 1st Viscount Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex, KG ( – 4 April 1483), was the eldest son of William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu, and Anne of Gloucester. On his mother's side, he was a g ...

, and

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 Cou ...

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'', were his elder brothers. He was knighted in 1426 and in 1455 he was summoned to the

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as ''John Bourchier de Berners'', which created the title of

Baron Berners Baron Berners is a barony created by writ in the Peerage of England. From creation to first abeyance (1455–1693) The barony was created in 1455 for Sir John Bourchier, youngest son of William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu, and younger brother ...

. In 1459 he was further honoured when he was made a

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. He also served as

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from 1461 to 1474. Lord Berners married Margery Berners (died 18 December 1475), daughter of Sir Richard Berners and Philippe Dalyngride, daughter of Sir Edward Dalyngridgge. He died in May 1474 and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson

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, his son Sir Humphrey Bourchier having been killed at the

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in 1471. Margery, Lady Berners, died in 1475. His daughter Joan Bourchier married Sir Henry Neville (died 26 July 1469), son of

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and Elizabeth Beauchamp, and had issue which included

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, father of

John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latimer John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer (17 November 1493 – 2 March 1543) was an English peer. His third wife was Catherine Parr, later queen of England. Family John Neville, born 17 November 1493, was the eldest son of Richard Neville, 2nd Baron ...

.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. His daughter, Elizabeth Bourchier (d. 1470), married

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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. John Bourchier was buried at

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, in the

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borough of

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Ancestry

References

* Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Berners, John Bourchier, 1st Baron Year of birth missing 1474 deaths

John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners, KG (died May 1474) was an English peer. Bourchier was the fourth son of William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu, and his wife Anne of Woodstock, Countess of Buckingham, daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke o ...

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