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ESSEX* 283 " Ikm-ko Bourgchier, Ch'lr," " Henrico Bourgchier dc Bourgchier" or "-Henrico Bourgchier, Vwniti ilc ii>c."(«) Shortly after this last writ lie [1416 ?] was or. VISCOUNT BOURCIIIICR(") (possibly VISCOUNT BOURCUIUROF TICKILL,(°) co. York), mill was sum. to Pari, as such 14 Dec. (1446), 25 Hen. VI. to 23 May (1161), 1 Ed. IV. KG., 22 April 1452. Treasurer, 1455-56, but having deserted the Lancastrian side, he obtained large grants of the forfeited estates of its adherents and was by the new King again made Treasurer 1461-82. On 30 June 1161, he was or. EARL OF ESSEX ;(") Steward of the Household, 1463-71 ; Treasurer (3d time), 1471 ; Lord Keeper, June to July 1472. He m, Isabel, (°) sister of Richard, Duke of York (the father of King Edward IV.), da. of Richard (Plaktaqenet), Earl op Cambridge, by Ann, da. of Roger (.Mortimer), Earl op March. He d. 4 April 1483, and his widow d. 2 Oct. 1484, both being bur. in the abbey of Byleigh, near Maldon, and tUeuce removed to Little Easton, Esses. Mon. brass. [William Bourchier styled Viscount Bourciiier, s. and h. ap. He m. Anne (sister to Elizabeth, the Queen Consort), da. of Richard (Widyillb), Earl Rivers. He d. v.p., being slain at the battle of Barnet on the Yorkist side 14 April 1471. His widow m. in 1480 George (Grey). Earl of Kent, who d. 21 Dec. 1503. She d. 30 July 1489.] XV. 1483 2. Henry (Bourchier), Earl of Essex [1461], Vis- to count Bourchier [1446 ?] and Lord Bourchier [1342], also Count 1540. of Eu, in Normandy [1419], grandson and h., being posthumous s. sad h. of Henry Bourchier, styled Viscount Bourchieb and Ann his wife abovenatned. He was b. 1472 ; was styled Viscount Bourchier, till 1483 ; was bearer of the spurs at the Coronation of Hen. VII, 30 Oct. 14S5 ; was sum. to Pari. 14 Oct. 1495 ; KG. 1496; had command in the battle of Blackheath 1497 ; P.C., 1505 ; bearer of the sword of state at the Coronation of Hen. VIII, 24 June 1509, to whom he was Capt. of the Guard; Chief Capt. of the King's "Spears" in France in 1513 and at the tournament of 1516 ; Marshal of the King's train at the "Held of the cloth of gold," June 1520 ; was one of the Peers who wrote to the Pope in favour of the King's divorce ; was carver at the coronation of Queen Ann Boleyn, 1 June 1533. He m. about 1498, Mary, 1st da. and coheir of Sir William Sat, by Elizabeth, his second vife,( f ) widow of Sir William Waldec-rave, da. of Sir John Fbat, Ch. Baron of the Exchequer.(S) He d. s.p.m., 13 March 1539/40, being (») See vol. i, p. 393, note " d," sub " Bourchier," as to this last writ not being in the same form as a writ to an English Earl. ( b ) See vol. i, p. 393, note " e," sub " Bourchier," as to this Viscountcy. ( c ) See " The Counts of Eu " as referred to in vol. i, p. 393, note "a" ( J ) This title had, as before stated, been borne by Thomas (Plantageuet), Duke of Gloucester, his maternal grandfather. Lord Bourchier, however, was not the heir to such grandfather, not being the eldest son of his mother, the da. of that Duke. Such sou (by her first) husband was Humphrey (Stafford), Earl of Stafford, cr. in 1444 Duke of Buckingham. " He had long aspired to exchange his Norman Earldom for one of the three English Earldoms which his mother claimed to inherit from the Bohuns. For altho' her eldest son, the Duke of Buckingham, had assumed the style of Earl of Hereford and Northampton the Earldom of Essex remained." This title accordingly he obtained. See "The Counts of Eu " as in note "c," ante. (•) In Doyle's " Official Baronage " she is called "widow of Thomas Grey." (') Sir William Say's first wife was living 1478, but both his daughters were, by his secoud wife. i'.e inform. F. M. Nichols, F.S.A., and see also Clutterbuck's " Herts," vol. iii, p. 19C, correcting statement in vol. ii, p. 391. (8) The age assigned to this lady is an instance of how lax are such statements in theiuquis'tions post, mortem, provided such statement is sufficient for the purpose in hand. She is called but " 30 years and upwards " on the death of her father in 1530, while in 1529, when giving evidence in the King's divorce suit, she describes herself a3 over 44 years, and bears testimony to events that occurred in 1501. See a paper on " Inquisitioncs post mortem," by F. M. Nichols, in the "Genealogist." [N.S.] vol. v, p' 104.