BERNERS 153 BERNERS(^) BARONY BY i. Sir John Bourchier, 4th s. of Sir William WRIT. Bourchier, Count of Eu in Normandy, by Anne,(^) I lAfc ^^- °f Thomas (surnamed " of Woodstock "),Q Du'ke OF Gloucester, 6th s. of Edward III. He was knighted 19 May 1426, at Leicester, by the Duke of Bedford, and was sum. to Pari, from 26 May (1455) 23 Hen. VI to 19 Aug. (1472) 12 Edw. IV,{^) by writs directed JoAaHni Bourghchier de Bernen chivakr whereby he is held to have become LORD BERNERS. (■=) K.G. before 23 Apr. 1459. Constable of Windsor Castle 17 Dec. 1461-74. ' He m. Margery, widow of John Ferreby (who d. s.p. ; will dat. i Oct., pr. 12 Nov.' 1441), and da. and h. of Sir Richard Berners, of West Horsley, Surrey (said to have been usually spoken of as Lord Berners),(') by Philippe, da. of Sir Edward Dalyngridge. He d. 16 or 21 May 1474, and was /'/^r at Chertsey Abbey, Surrey. Will dat. 21 Mar. 1473/4, pr. 21 June I474.(^) His widow d. 18 Dec. 1475. Inq. p. m. 30 Apr. (1476) 16 Edw. IV. ^^- ^474 2. John (Bourchier), Lord Berners, grandson and to h., being s. and h. of Sir Humphrey B., by Elizabeth,^) 1533. da. and sole h. of Frederick Tylney, of Boston, co. Lincoln, which Humphrey was s. and h. ap. of the last Lord and d. v.p.y being slain at the battle of Barnet (on the Yorkist side), (0 In Collins's Baronies by Writ, pp. 331 sqq., there is an elaborate account of the Barony of Berners, to prove the claim thereto of Katherine Bokenham, drawn up by Peter Le Neve, Norroy, in 17 17. This account has been used in the text V G C') She was sole h. to her br., Humphrey, Earl of Buckingham, and thus trans- mitted to her representatives the right of quartering the royal arms as differenced in the grant thereof to her said father. n As to his supposed name of "Plantagenet," see (7«/^, vol. i, p. 183, note "c." V.G. C^) There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. (') "But in 2 Edw. IV he was sum. as Dominus Bernen, and from 6 Edw IV to 10 Edw. IV (inclusive) as Johannes Berners {ex inform. J. Horace Round). Accord- ing to the first writ however (that in 1455) the title would seem rather to have been Lord Bourchier of Berners, there having (apparently) been no previously acknow- ledged Barony of Berners of which he {jure uxoris) was a representative. It has however always been spoken of as "Berners," and accordingly is so given here He sat m the House of Lords with his 3 brothers, viz. (i) Henry, a: Earl of Essex, (2) 1 homas, Archbishop of Canterbury, (3) William, cr. Earl Fitz-Warine. For similar cases see note sub Boyle of Kinalmeaky. " In the reign of Henry V, Richard Berners 'had the reputation of a Baron of this realm, though nothing of his creation or summons to Parliament that I could ever see, says Dugdale, ' doth appear thereof;' ob. 1421, s.p.m." See Nico/as, repro- duced by Courthope. *^ («) Test. Vet. C") This Elizabeth was afterwards the first wife of Thomas (Howard), Duke of Norfolk, and ancestress of the succeeding Dukes. 21
