Thomas Bourchier of Horsley

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Sir Thomas Bourchier of Horsley († 1512 ), was an English knight .

Life

He was the youngest son of John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners and Margery (also Margaret) Berners, a daughter of Sir Richard Berners. He was related to the Plantagenet house through his grandmother, Anne of Gloucester , and a younger brother of Humphrey Bourchier .

Thomas Bourchier began his career at court in 1461 as Sewer to the King and later became Esquire to the King Body . Bourchier served, like his father, as Constable of Windsor Castle , as Goaler of the utter gate and as Knight of the Shire represented Surrey in Parliament from 1472 to 1475.

In the course of the celebrations for the wedding of the second son of King Edward IV , Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York , Thomas Bourchier was beaten on January 17, 1478 to the Knight of the Bath . Sir Thomas served as Knight of the Kings Body until the death of Edward IV in April 1483 .

After the king's death, Sir Thomas initially supported his brother Richard , Duke of Gloucester , but when the latter seized the crown, Sir Thomas openly rebelled. Sir Thomas joined the uprising known as Buckingham's Rebellion in 1483 and was charged with high treason. Bourchier was also part of a group who tried to forcibly free the princes in the Tower . A reward of £ 500 was offered on his head, but he was later given pardon .

When Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond , landed in Wales in 1485 and marched with his army towards Bosworth , Richard III commissioned. his confidante Robert Brackenbury to take Sir Thomas Bourchier and Walter Hungerford of Farleigh into custody and to bring them to his camp, as he mistrusted both and feared that they might overflow to Henry Tudor. Bourchier and Hungerford managed to escape and both joined the Tudor army.

On August 22, 1485, Sir Thomas fought for Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth . Sir Thomas also fought for his King Henry VII in 1497 at the Battle of Deptford Bridge against insurgents from Cornwall.

Sir Thomas died in 1512.

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A b Douglas Richardson: Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families. 2nd Edition. 2011, ISBN 978-1-4610-4513-7 , p. 357.
  3. ^ A b c d e Charles Wykeham Merlin: History and Description of Leeds Castle, Kent. Nicols & Sons, London 1869, p. 140.
  4. ↑ a b c The English Compendium or Rudiments of Honor. Vol. III, London 1769, p. 128.
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  6. ↑ a b c d Caroline Halsted: Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King. Carey & Hart, Philadelphia 1844, p. 386 / p. 456
  7. ^ A b R. R. Tighe, JE Davis: Annals of Windsor. Vol. I, Longman, Brown, Green, London 1858, pp. 406/407.
  8. ^ A b Towton Battlefield Society
  9. ^ William A. Shaw: The Knights of England. Genealogical Publishing, 1971, ISBN 0-8063-0443-X , p. 138.
  10. ↑ a b Terry Breverton: Richard III. The King in the Car Park. Amberley Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4456-2111-1 .
  11. ^ A b Nicholas Fellows, Sharon Littler: OCR A Level History: England 1445–1509: Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII. Hachette, UK 2015, ISBN 978-1-4718-3659-6 .
  12. ^ A b Hugh Bicheno: Blood Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York 1462-1485. Head of Zeus, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78185-967-4 .
  13. ^ A b c John A. Wagner: Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses. ABC-CLIO, 2001, ISBN 1-85109-358-3 , p. 121 / S. 186-187
  14. ↑ Richard III. Foundation Inc. ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.richard111.com
  15. ^ Edward Baines: History of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Vol. I, Fisher, Son & Co., London 1836, p. 432.
  16. ^ Giles St. Aubyn: The Year of the Three Kings', 1483. Faber & Faber, 2013, ISBN 978-0-571-29934-8 .
  17. ↑ Terry Breverton: Henry VII the Maligned Tudor King. Amberley Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4456-4606-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Bourchier of Horsley, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourchier of Horsley, Sir Thomas; Bourchier, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1512