John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath
Sir John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath, PC (1499, Devon – 10 February 1560/61) was an Earl in the peerage of England. He also succeeded to the titles of 4th Baron FitzWarin, Baron of Daubeney and 4th Count of Eu.
He was the son of John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath and Cecily Daubeny. He was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1519 and knighted in 1523. Henry VIII, in 1539, granted the manors of Hackpen, Sheldon, Bolham and Saint Hill to the 2nd Earl, who had already inherited the Dynhams' Okehampton Barony from his grandmother, Elizabeth Dynham.
He married three times, first to Isabel Hungerford, second to Lady Eleanor Manners and upon her death, Margaret Donington.[1] His heir was John Bourchier, 5th Baron FitzWarin, born 1520, who married Lady Frances Kytson. Their son William Bourchier, was born the same year his father died,1557. Upon the death of his father, young William became the heir to his grandfathers Earldom.
Bourchier was himself descended from royalty. His father was the 3rd great grandson of Thomas of Woodstock, youngest son of Edward III.[2] A more contemporary relation was his cousin, Anne Stanhope. She was the daughter of the 1st Earl of Baths sister, Elizabeth. Upon her marriage to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, she became the sister-in-law to Queen Jane Seymour and the Aunt of King Edward VI. After the death of Henry VIII, his widow (Queen Catherine Parr) married Thomas Seymour. This made Anne the sister-in-law to two English Queens. She was Bourchier's first cousin.
Upon the death of Edward VI, he was one of the first to declare Mary Tudor rightful Queen. He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (PC) in 1533, and served as a Commissioner at the coronation of Mary I. Bourchier was also a commissioner on the trial of Lady Jane Grey.[3]
Other offices held in his lifetime included: Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall, Lord-Lieutenant of Devon, Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset and Governor of Beaumaris Castle.[4]
He died February 10, 1560/61 and was buried March 10, at Hengrave, Suffolk, England.
[edit] References
- ^ Peter W. Hammond (Ed.), The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 71.
- ^ Anthony Martienssen, Queen Katherine Parr (McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973), p.125.
- ^ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (Eds.), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new edn., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 16.
- ^ Sir Bernard Burke (Ed.), Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 3rd edn. (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1912), p. 560.
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| Preceded by The 1st Earl of Bedford |
Lord Lieutenant of Devon 1556–1561 |
Vacant
Title next held by
The 2nd Earl of Bedford |
| Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 1556–1558 |
Succeeded by The Lord Mountjoy |
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| Preceded by John Bourchier |
Earl of Bath 1539–1561 |
Succeeded by William Bourchier |
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