Elizabeth Bourchier, 4th Baroness Bourchier (c.1399–1432) was an English noblewoman and landowner. She was the daughter of

Bartholomew Bourchier, 3rd Baron Bourchier Bartholomew Bourchier, 3rd Baron Bourchier (died 18 May 1409) was an English baron. Family Bartholomew was the only known child of John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Bourchier, and his wife Maud Coggeshall. He inherited the title in 1400. Life He was ...

. She married twice, and both husbands acquired the title of

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''in iure uxoris''. Elizabeth Bourchier's mother was the former Idonea Lovey, Bartholomew's second wife. She inherited the barony when Bartholomew died in 1409. She first married Hugh Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford, a younger son of Hugh Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford. The marriage took place some time before 1411, when he was first summoned to Parliament in right of the barony of Bourchier. He died in 1420. She married her second husband, Sir Lewis Robessart (died 1430), before 1425 when he was summoned to Parliament as Baron Bourchier. Sir Lewis was Chamberlain to King

Henry VI of England Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and 1470 to 1471, and English claims to the French throne, disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry V of England, Henry V, he succeeded ...

. There were no children from either marriage. Elizabeth Bourchier was buried at

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with her second husband, Sir Lewis Robessart. Since she died childless, the barony was inherited by her second cousin

Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex Henry Bourchier, 5th Baron Bourchier, 2nd Count of Eu, 1st Viscount Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex ( – 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 grea ...

(1404–1483).

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1390s births 1432 deaths 4 Elizabeth English baronesses Burials at Westminster Abbey {{nobility-stub