BOURCHIER.. 3!) 3 BOURCHIER. ( : >) Elected K.G. while serving with his Sovereign in Normandy in MIS or early in 1410. lie d. s.p. 1 120. Shew, secondly Sir Lewis Rohessart, K.G. (so-elected 3 May 1 421) Standard Bearer to Henry V, who similarly was sum. as a Baron( h ) hy writs from 24 Feb. (1 124/51, 3 Hen. VI. to 3 Aug. (1420), 7 Hen. VI., directed m Tcly lodewica Robcvarl (LOUD ROBESSAUT, but query if not LORD ]}t)lTRCHll-:il).f •) lie d. s.]>. 1431, and was W. in Westm. Abbey. The Baroness d. n widow and s.p., 1 Jtily 1133, and wa*, also, bur. there. V. 1 133. .J. riRN-nv (Botoghier), Lord TiouRcniniR, as also Earl Viwnnntm °' Bu in Normandy, cousin and h. being s. and h. of Sir William viscounty. ]fl , lllvl|ii . | . ) E . lrl ()f Eu («) (, s0 10 June 1410) by Anne, I. 11 40. DOW. Commas of STAFFORD, da. and h. of Thomas (Plaxtaoenet), Dcks of Gloucester (vat s. of Edu'ard III) which Sir William was s. and h. of another.Sir William Bourchier, the yr. s.of Robert, 1st Lord BoORCKlBn aboveuamed. On 28 May 1420, when scarcely 1G, he sue. his Father in the Norman Earldom, and about 13 years afterwards BUC. his cousin in the English Barony, after which he was sum. to Pari. 5 July (1435) 13 Hen. VI. to 13 Jan. (1444/5) 23 Hen. IV.( h ) by writs variously directed "Henrico Boargdixtr, Ok'lr." ; " Henrico Bminihrhicr de Bourghchier" or " Henrico Bour/jchier, Comiti de Ewe." ( d ) Shortly after this last writ he was cr. VISCOUNT BOURCHIER (•) (possibly Vis- count Bourchier of Tickill co. Yorki( r ) and was sum. to. Pari, as such 14 Doc. (1446) 25 Hen. VI. to 23 May (1461) 1 Ed. IV. On 30 June 1461 he was cr. EARL ov ESSEX, (e) He d. 4 April 1483. See fuller account under " Essex " Earldom of cr. 1453 ; ex. 1540. RICHARD Hastings, sum. as Lord Welles, 22 Ed. IV. Edward Hastinos, sum. as Loud Honobrford, 22 Ed. IV. ; 1 llic. III., and 3,7, 11, and 12 Hen. VII. GEonoK Stanley, sum. as Lord Strange, 22 Ed. IV. ; 1 Ric. III., and 3, 11 and 12 Hen. Vft. Edward Grey (having ;>!. the heiress of Viscount Lisle, was cr. Baron Lisle, ] 5 Ed. IV. and) sum. as Lord Lisle, 22 Ed. IV, afterwards cr. Viscount Lisle. Charles Somerset, mm. as Loud HERBERT, 1 and 3 Hon. VIII. See also " BARON I tS jure uroris " in " Courthope," p. xxxvij, where the case is mentioned of the two husbands (Falvesloy and Heron) of Elizabeth, sister and h. of John, Lord Say, each of whom Was sum. as a Baron (1383 and 1393), but neither of them as " Lord Say." (") In Belt/.'s " Knights of the Garter," p. 97., the description of these Peers is <: Hugh Stafford, Lord Bourchier." and " Sir Lewis Robessart — Lord Bourchier." This seems to imply (not only that " Bourchier " was their Peerage title, but) that Hugh was Lord Bourchier when elected, and that Lewis became Lord Bourchier, after his election. () There is proof of his sitting in the Rolls of Pari. ( c ) This Earldom was granted by Henry V. to this Sir William Bourchier and the heirs mule of his body by Ann, his wife, but the actual possession of the Norman "County" was lost iu 1450 when the English were driven out of Normandy. A most interesting ami exhaustive account of the ,; Counts of Eu." is written by R. E. Chester Waters, B.A., and published in the " Transactions of the Yorkshire Arehaiologi- cal Society" in 1SS6. It is also issued separately. C) Observe, however, that this writ is uot in the same form as that to English Earls, where the surname is omitted; c.(j. the writ " Johi, Comiti Oxon" in the same Pari. As to the using a foreign title of a higher grade in the summons of an English Peer, see the cases of the Earldom of Angus [S.], 1207-1330 ; the Earldom of Athole [S] 1322-1369 ; the Earldom of Huehau [S.], 1334-1349 where the Lords I'mfraville, the Lords Strabolgi, and the Lords Beaumont were respectively so summoned ; Sec also the writ in 1348 " Edwardo de Balliolo Meyl ScaluS ; that in 1370 to Edward, Prince of A^uitaine and Wales, fee. (°) He was the second of that order. The first who was so created (Viscount Beau- mont) had like himself a French Feudal Peerage. Tho' no patent of his creation is enrolled it was expressly stated by Norroy King of Arms (on the occasion of thecreatiun of the Viscountcy of Berkeley in 1480) that the creation was " by patent and iu his gown." See " Courthopo " p. xlvii. (' ) See Mr. Chester Waters' treatise (as alluded to iu note " c " ante) page 2. (R) Considering that his mother Ann, was da. and h. of Thomas, "of Woodstock," and
