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Bourchier, John (1467 - 1532/3)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1467
Death Date: 1533-03-19

Notes

Summoned to Parliament 14 Oct. 1495--9 Aug. 1529

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Howard, Katherine ( - 1536)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Female

  • Bourchier, Margaret ( - 1551/2)

Primary Title

  • 2nd Baron Berners

Titles

  • 2nd Baron Berners
    Assumed: 1474-05-16 (possibly succeeded to title 21 May 1474)
    Vacated: 1532/3-03-10

General Lands Note

Livery of lands 10 Oct. 1491

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Surrey 1498
JP, Surrey 1498 1528
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, London 1503
JP, Hertfordshire 1509 1512
Chamberlain to Princess Mary, England 1514 -10 -9 1516
Deputy Governor, France 1520 -11 -28 1526 -10 -1
Chancellor of the Exchequer, England 1524 -5 -24 (date succeeded to office; admitted 14 July 1524) 1532/3 -03 -19 Granted reversion of office for life 28 May 1514; received new grant 29 May 1516
JP, Dorset 1526
Deputy, France 1531 -3 -27 1532/3 -03 -19
JP, Norfolk 1531 1532

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Calais, France
  • Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk

Lands

  • Hampshire
  • Oxfordshire
  • Staffordshire
  • Surrey
  • Wiltshire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Rye (Unknown), Rye, Sussex Lord Berners' Minstrels
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Lord Berners' Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Berners' Minstrels Bourchier, John (1467 - 1533) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Berners' Players Bourchier, John (1467 - 1533) Players 1

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII [1485–1509]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1914--16
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.