Fitzwarin was born about 1344, the son of unknown parents. The place is not known.
His wife is not known. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their two known children were Elizabeth (c1404-c1427) and Fulk (1406-1420).
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| Birth | ABT 1344 |
Note 1
!Stylename: Fitzwaren, 6th Baron FitzWarin, of Bampton [~1344-?]
!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.
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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. 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.