John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners

John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners KG (* around 1415, † 1474 ) was an English peer .

Origin and family environment

On his father's side, John Bourchier came from the Norman nobility and his mother's side from the English royal family of the Plantagenets . He was born the fourth son of Sir William Bourchier, the Count of Eu , in an unknown year in the late 14th or early 15th centuries. His mother was Anne of Gloucester , daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester , who in turn was the sixth son of King Edward III. was, and by Eleanor de Bohun . John's brother was Thomas Bourchier , who was Archbishop of Canterbury , Cardinal and Lord Chancellor of England.

Life

John Bourchier was beaten on May 19, 1425 by his uncle John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (also a Plantagenet), in Leicester to the Knight Bachelor . Probably because of his kinship with the royal family, he was appointed to the House of Lords on May 16, 1455 by a Writ of Summons (as Johanni Bourghchier de Berners ) and thereby received the hereditary dignity of Baron Berners . In 1459 he was accepted into the Order of the Garter. From December 17, 1451 to 1474 he was Constable of Windsor Castle .

He died in 1474. He was married to Margerie, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Berners. Since his son Humphrey Bourchier had died in the Battle of Barnet in 1471 , John Bourchier was inherited by his grandson John Bourchier as the 2nd Baron Berners.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Peerage, Berner's article
2. ↑ The Complete Peerage, Volume II, Berner's article, 153
3. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 13.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron Berners 1455–1474	John Bourchier