James Bourchier (abt. 1510 - 1554)

Born about 1510 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Bannister) Bourchier — married about 1530 in England

Descendants

Died 1554 at about age 44 in England

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Biography

Sir James was the illegitimate son of Sir John Bourchier, 2nd Lord Berners, by an unidentified mistress.^[1][2]

He married Mary Bannaster, daughter of Sir Humphrey Bannaster.^[1][2] They had 3 sons and 2 daughters^[1]:

• Sir Ralph
• Arthur
• Arthur, again
• Jane
• Mary, wife of Nicholas Yetsworth or Ettesworth, clerk of the signet and royal secretary for the French tongue.^[2]

In 1540 he was his brother Humphrey's heir, acquiring thereby the manors of Haughton, Offley and Doxey in Staffordshire.^[1]

Sir James died in 1554.^[1]

Research Notes

The 1510 birth date is an estimate.

Neither Dugdale nor Douglas Richardson give a birth or death place for James. Marlyn Lewis^[3] seems to suggest Haughton, Staffordshire, though the wording is a little unclear - "at of Haughton": James did not inherit Haughton until 1540 (see above) though it was held by a brother before that.

There have been suggestions that James’s mother was Elizabeth Bacon, as stated in Tudor Place. These suggestions probably derive from Flower’s Visitation of Yorkshire in 1563 and 1564, which gives Elizabeth Becon as James’s mother.^[4] Douglas Richardson’s Magna Carta Ancestry suggests that this is likely to be mistaken, resulting from confusion with Elizabeth Bacon, the wife of James’s brother Humphrey (who was also illegitimate): vol.1, p.287 footnote 165. Dugdale does not name James’s mother.^[2]

The date of James’s marriage to Mary Bannaster is uncertain.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume I, pp.289-290 BOURCHIER 13.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} J W Clay. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, Vol 1, pub. William Pollard 1899, page 305.
3. ↑ Marlyn Lewis, Our Royal, Titled and Commoner Ancestors (accessed 20 April 2019).
4. ↑ William Flower. The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564, Harleian Society 1881, p.30

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013: volume 1, page 490 BOURCHIER 15. See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.
• Lewis, Marlyn. Entry for Sir James Bourchier, in "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" database. Note: Listed under "Reliable Sources with Conditions" (see the Magna Carta Project's Reliable Sources page).

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

James Bourchier appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Mary Bourchier to Magna Carta Surety Baron Henry de Bohun (vol. I, pages 277-291 BOURCHIER). This profile was developed in accordance with project standards by Michael Cayley in April 2019 and was badged 5 July 2019 by Noland-165. Additionally, the Bourchier to Bohun trail connected this profile to previously-badged trails to other surety barons including John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, Robert de Vere, Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigod. These trails are set out in the Magna Carta Trails on the Gateway's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".