Thomasin Hawkins / Hankeford

Personal and Family Information

Thomasin was born about 1421 in Devonshire, England, the daughter of Richard Hawkins / Hankeford and Elizabeth Fitzwarin.

Her husband was William Bourchier. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their two known children were Fulk (c1441-1480) and Blanche (c1442-1483).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Stylename: Hawkins / Hankeford, Thomasin, 9th Baroness FitzWarin, of Bampton [~1421- ?]

!Source: Devon Wills Index, 1163-1999 https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBOR%2FOR%2FDEVWILLS%2F174540&tab=this

First name Elizabeth

Source Taps

Last name Hankeford

Document type Other

Sex Female

Document form Abstract or Extract

Probate year 1433

Document references 12 Hen. VI. No. 40

Place -

Record set Devon Wills Index, 1163-1999

County Devon

Category Birth, Marriage & Death

Country England

Subcategory Wills & Probate

Additional information Inquisition Post Mortem; Died 13 Oct. 1433; Thomasin, aged 12, sister and heir

!Source: Collins’s Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. Greatly Augmented, and Continued to the Preent Time by Sir Egerton Brydges, K.J., In nine volumes, Vol. IX., London. 1812., page 450, Earlss Extinct.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Collins%E2%80%99s_Peerage_of_England_Genealogical_Biographical_and_Historical%2C_in_Nine_Volumes%2C_Vol._IX_%28IA_dli.granth.17315%29.pdf

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24. Bourchier, Earl of Bath, created 1536, extinct 1654.

William Bourchier, third son to William Bourchier, Earl - of

Ewe, by Anne, daughter and heir of Thomas of Woodstock,

Duke of Gloucester, having married Thomasine, daughter and

heir of Sir Richard Hankford., Kt. by Elizabeth, sister and heir

to Fulke, Lord Fitzwarine, was summoned to parlianient by the

title of Lord Fitzwarine, a 27 Henry VI [1427]. He had summons to

parliament till 12 Henry HIV. and was succeeded by his son Fulke,

Lord Fitzwarine, who died 12th September, 19 Edward IV.

leaving a son and heir, John Lord Fitzwarine, who was created

Earl of Bath, 9th July, 28 Henry VIII. and dying 30th April,

31 Henry VIII. was succeeded by his son John, second Earl,

of Bath, who died 1560, and was succeeded by his grandson

William, third Earl of Bath, who died at his manor-house of

Tawstock, in Devonshire, 12th July, 1623, and was succeeded

by his son Edward, fourth Earl of Bath, who dying 1636,. left

three daughters, his coheirs; Elizabeth, married to Basil, Earl

of Denbigh,' but died S. P. Dorothy married Thomas Lord

Grey, of Groby Anne, the third co-

'heir. married first James Cranfield Earl of Middlesex, and

lecondly, Sir Chichester Wrey, Bart. great grandfather of Sir

Bourchier Wrey, Bart. But the Earldom went to the next heir

male, who was Sir Henry Bourchier, son to Sir George Boor-

chier, third son to John, second Earl of Bath. This Sir Henry

Bourchier thus became fifth Earl of Bath, and at his death,

without issue, August 15th, 1654, the earldom expired.

!Source: King Edward Plantagenet British 1820 Settlers to South Africa https://www.1820settlers.com/documents/Bowker_Bourchier/data/toc9.html

Isabel Plantagenet of Cambridge and Henry Bourchier - 5th Baron Bourchier, 2nd Count of Eu, 1st Viscount Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex had the following children:

+95 William Bourchier - Viscount Bourchier [345]

+96 Henry Bourchier [346]

+97 Thomas Bourchier [347]

+98 John Bourchier - 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby [348]

+99 Humphrey Bourchier - 1st and last Lord Bourchier of Cromwell [349]

+100 Florence Bourchier [354]

+101 Fulke Bourchier [350]

+102 Hugh Bourchier [351]

+103 Edward Bourchier [352]

+104 Isabel Bourchier [353]

+105 Laura Bourchier - Countess of Devon [1072]

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83. William Bourchier - 1st Baron Fitzwaryn10 [341], son of William Bourchier - 1st Count of Eu [337] and Anne Plantagenet - of Gloucester, Countess of Stafford and Eu of Gloucester [338], was born in 1407. He had the title '1st Baron Fitzwaryn'.10 He died in 1474. He married Thomazine Hankeford [368]. He married Catherine de Affeton [1162].

William Bourchier jure uxoris 1st Baron FitzWarin, was an English nobleman. He was summoned to Parliament in 1448[1] as Baron FitzWarin in right of his wife Thomasine Hankford.

Origins

He was the 2nd son of William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu by his wife Anne of Gloucester, Countess of Stafford, the daughter of the Plantagenet prince, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester by his wife Eleanor de Bohun elder daughter and coheiress of Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford , Earl of Essex and Northampton. He had the following siblings:

Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex , eldest brother

John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners , younger brother

Thomas Bourchier, , Archbishop of Canterbury and a cardinal, youngest brother

Eleanor Bourchier, , wife of John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, sister

Marriages & progeny

William Bourchier married twice:

Firstly to Thomasine Hankford, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses, by his 1st marriage, of Sir Richard II Hankford of Annery in Devon, [FALSE: grandson of Sir William Hankford , KB, Lord Chief Justice of England]. Thomasine's mother was Elizabeth FitzWarin, 8th Baroness FitzWarin , sister and heiress of Fulk FitzWarin, 7th Baron FitzWarin , feudal baron of Bampton, in Devon. Upon the death of Elizabeth FitzWarin in 1427 the barony of FitzWarin went into abeyance between her daughters Thomasine Hankford and Elizabeth Hankford . On the death of Elizabeth Hankford in 1433, the barony of FitzWarin was inherited by her sister Thomasine Hankford, the wife of William Bourchier, who was summoned to Parliament as Lord FitzWarin in her right. Thomasine Hankford's father married secondly to Anne Montacute, daughter of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury , to Anne Nevill, daughter of Lord Nevill). By his 2nd wife Sir Richard II Hankford left a daughter Anne Hankford , who married Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond . Anne Hankford and her husband inherited Annery, whilst Thomasine Hankford and her husband William Bourchier inherited Bampton. William Bourchier had by Thomasine Hankford progeny including:

Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin , son and heir. He requested in his will to be buried at Bampton. He married Elizabeth Dynham, one of the four sisters and co-heiresses of John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham , KG, of Nutwell, Devon. Elizabeth remarried to Sir John Sapcotes and a stained glass heraldic escutcheon survives in Bampton church showing the arms of Sapcotes impaling Dinham. Fulk's son and heir was John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath and 11th Baron FitzWarin , created in 1536 Earl of Bath. The Bourchiers later moved their seat from Bampton westwards to Tawstock in North Devon.

Blanche Bourchier ,[10] who married firstly Philip Beaumont , of Shirwell, Devon, MP in 1467 and Sheriff of Devon in 1469. The marriage was without progeny. Her stone effigy survives in Shirwell Church. Blanche survived her first husband and re-married secondly to Bartholomew St Ledger "of Kent", probably a relative or descendant of Sir John St Ledger of Ulcombe, Kent, Sheriff of Kent in 1430, one of whose sons was Sir James St Ledger of Annery in the parish of Monkleigh, North Devon, who married Anne Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, and was therefore an uncle to Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire. Another son was Sir Thomas St Leger , the second husband of Anne of York , daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, thus an elder sister of Kings Edward IV and Richard III . Sir Thomas St Ledger's grand-daughter Eleanor manners was the 2nd wife of John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath and 12th Baron FitzWarin , of Tawstock.

Secondly William Bourchier married Catherine de Affeton , daughter and heiress of John de Affeton of Affeton, Devon, and widow of Hugh Stucley of Affeton, Sheriff of Devon in 1448.

Death & burial

Both William Bourchier and his wife Thomasine Hankford were buried in Bampton Church. Dugdale quoted the will of his son Fulk Bourchier who bequeathed his body to be buried in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin at Bampton, near the grave of his mother, Lady Thomasine, and he willed that marble stones with inscriptions should be placed on his own grave and that of his father, Lord William, and his mother, Lady Thomasine.