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[[File:GarterPlateHenryBourchier2ndEarlOfEssex.png|thumb|200px|[[Order of the Garter|Garter]] stall-plate of Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex, 3rd Count of Eu (1468-1540), KG, nominated as a [[Order of the Garter|Knight of the Garter]] in 1499. St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Inscribed above: "Le Conte Henri de Esex et de Ew". Arms: [[Quartering (heraldry)|Quarterly]] 1st & 4th: ''Argent, a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable'' (Bourchier); 2nd: ''Gules billety or a fess argent'' (Louvain, [[English feudal barony|feudal barons]] of [[Little Easton]], Essex (for the mother of the [[William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu|1st Count of Eu]], Eleanor de Louvain (d.1397)); 3rd: ?. Crest: ''A man's (Moor's) head in profile proper ducally crowned or with a pointed cap gules'';<ref>Vivian, Heralds' Visitations of Devon, 1895, p.106</ref>]] |
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'''Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex''' <small>[[Order of the Garter|KG]]</small> <small>[[Order of the Bath|KB]]</small> <small>[[Privy Council of England|PC]]</small> (died 13 March 1540) was an English soldier, peer and courtier at the courts of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] and [[Henry VIII]]. He married Mary Say, by whom he had one daughter, [[Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier|Anne]], who became his heir. |
'''Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex''' <small>[[Order of the Garter|KG]]</small> <small>[[Order of the Bath|KB]]</small> <small>[[Privy Council of England|PC]]</small> (died 13 March 1540) was an English soldier, peer and courtier at the courts of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] and [[Henry VIII]]. He married Mary Say, by whom he had one daughter, [[Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier|Anne]], who became his heir. |
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Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex KG KB PC (died 13 March 1540) was an English soldier, peer and courtier at the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. He married Mary Say, by whom he had one daughter, Anne, who became his heir.
Family
Bourchier was the son of William Bourchier, Viscount Bourchier and Anne Woodville. Through his mother, he was the nephew of Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort to Edward IV and in 1483, due to the death of his grandfather Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex, he inherited the earldom. The 1st Earl of Essex was a grandson of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, the youngest son of King Edward III. The 2nd Earl's paternal grandmother was Isabel of Cambridge, Countess of Essex who by both parents was a descendant of King Edward III.
Career
Bourchier was a member of Henry VII's privy council and was present at the siege of Boulogne in 1492. Five years later he led a detachment against the rebels at Blackheath. When Henry VIII became king, he was made captain of the new bodyguard, and in 1513 was lieutenant-general of the spears (light cavalry) at the sieges of Thérouanne and Tournai. The following year he was appointed Chief Captain of the King's forces. He was one of the judges at the trial of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham when the latter was tried on a charge of treason, and received the manor of Bedminster as his share of the Duke's forfeited estates.
In March 1540, he broke his neck after falling from his horse and died from his injury. His barony was inherited by his daughter, who was separated from her husband, William Parr, Baron Parr of Kendal, brother of Queen Katherine Parr, who was later created Earl of Essex in 1543 and Marquess of Northampton in 1547.[2]
References
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Vivian, Heralds' Visitations of Devon, 1895, p.106
- ^ http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/henrybourchier2.htm