Thomasin was born on 23 FEB 1423 in Tavistock, 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).
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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.
!Source: Mapping the Medieval Countryside: Places, People, and Properties in the Inquisitions Post Mortem
https://inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/24-720/index.html
THOMASIA, DAUGHTER OF RICHARD HANKEFORD, KNIGHT , AND ELIZABETH LATELY HIS WIFE
720 Writ de etate probanda. ‡ 3 August 1437. [Wymbyssh].
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Regarding her inheritance as a daughter and heir of Richard Hankeford, knight , and Elizabeth lately his wife, and sister and heir of Elizabeth another of their daughters and heirs, lately a minor who died in the king’s wardship, who held of Henry VI in chief. Prompted by William Bourgchier husband of Thomasia. The lands are now in the custody of Anne, countess of Stafford , by commission of Henry VI [CFR 1430–37, p. 141]. Inform the countess of the forthcoming proof of age. [Dorse:] she was informed by Richard Gentill and John Curteys and did not attend.
DEVON. Proof of age. Barnstaple. 9 August 1437. [Gille].
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The jurors swear that she was born at Tawstock on 23 February 1423, baptised in the church there, and was aged 14 years on 23 February last. Robert Cornu, esquire , 50 and more, knows because Isabel his wife was a godmother. John Pollard, esquire , 40 and more, knows because he rode to Tawstock to her baptism with John Copleston her godfather. William Floyr , 40, knows because on the day of the baptism he rode to Tawstock with William Hankeford, knight , her great-grandfather and saw him give her a gilt bowl. Henry Merewode, esquire , 44, knows because he was hunting with Richard Hankeford at Umberleigh when Richard was told about her birth. William Blenche , 50, knows because on the day of the baptism he rode to Tawstock with William Hankeford , then chief justice of the king, and saw William give her a ring called ‘Dyamond’ and to her nurse 6s. 8d. Thomas Kyngeslond , 46, knows because he was married at Tawstock on the day that she was baptised and waited at the church door during her baptism. John Mulys of Barnstaple, 60, knows because he held a burning torch during the whole of the baptism. Roger Raymer , 34, knows because he gave water to the godfather and godmothers after the baptism to wash their hands. John Raymer , 42, knows because on the day she was baptised he raised a new hall at Barnstaple and saw very many gentlemen riding to the baptism. Richard Yoo , 40, knows because a ship of his laden with various merchandise was brought to land at Barnstaple on the day of the baptism. Walter Hayme , 44, knows because he saw fellow burgesses of the town of Barnstaple give her a tun of wine on the day of her baptism. Nicholas Bury , 50, knows because while riding to Tawstock on the day of the baptism he fell from his horse because of his haste and badly injured himself.
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!Source: Mapping the Medieval Countryside: Places, People, and Properties in the Inquisitions Post Mortem
https://inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/24-724/index.html
THOMASIA AND ANNE, DAUGHTERS OF WILLIAM HANKEFORD, KNIGHT
724 Writ de partitione. ‡ 15 August 1437. [Wymbyssh].
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Regarding messuages, lands, etc., in Devon and Cornwall in the king’s hand owing to the death of Richard Hankeford, knight , and the minority of Thomasia, Anne and Elizabeth his daughters and next heirs, the messuage, etc., in Milton Damerel being held in chief, the messuages, etc., in Exeter held of the king in free burgage and the rest held of others [see CIPM, xxiii, nos. 577–8, inquisitions taken in 1431]. It was found by another inquisition before William Wadham, lately escheator , that Elizabeth, lately a minor in the king’s wardship, is now deceased, and Thomasia and Anne are her sisters and next heirs. William Bourghchier , Thomasia’s husband, recently proved Thomasia’s majority [720], and the king has taken his fealty. Order to divide the messuages, lands, etc., into two equal parts, in the presence of William and Thomasia and the next friends of Anne, or their attorneys. William and Thomasia are to have full seisin of Thomasia's purparty without delay, and Anne’s purparty is to be kept in the king’s hand [CClR 1435–41, p. 95].
DEVON AND CORNWALL. Partition of lands [no place or date given]. [Gille].
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Division of the following into two equal parts, in the presence of William Bourghchier and Thomasia his wife and William Blenche and John Aps next friends of Anne. Anne’s purparty kept in the king’s hand. Devon. Milton Damarel, a messuage, a watermill, a carucate of land and 20 a. wood, held of the king in chief. William and Thomasia’s share, in Thomasia's purparty, and Anne’s share each being a moiety of the messuage, watermill, land and wood. Exeter, 2 messuages and two gardens in the city, held of the king in chief in free burgage. William and Thomasia’s share, in her purparty, being the messuage and garden now held by Robert Norton of Exeter. Anne’s share being the messuage and garden lately held by John Dabernon . Roborough, 2 a. land, with the advowson of the church belonging to this land. William and Thomasia’s share, in her purparty, and Anne’s share each being a moiety of the land and presentation to the advowson every second time. North Tawton, a messuage and 9 a. land, with the advowson of the church. William and Thomasia’s share, in Thomasia's purparty, and Anne’s share each being a moiety of the messuage and land, and presentation to the advowson every second time. Cornwall. Menheniot, an English a. land, with presentation to the advowson of the church every third time. William and Thomasia’s share and Anne’s share each being a moiety of the land and presentation. Knowle, a messuage, a Cornish a. land and 5 a. wood. William and Thomasia’s share, in Thomasia's purparty, and Anne’s share each being a moiety of the messuage, land and wood. Trethevy, a messuage and a Cornish a. land. William and Thomasia’s share, in Thomasia's purparty, and Anne’s share each being a moiety of the messuage and land.
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