| SIR HENRY BOURCHIER, 2nd DUKE OF AUMERLE, LORD SCALES | 
SIR HENRY BOURCHIER
Born 1433.
Status: Married, to Lady Elizabeth de Scales (1436).
Titles: 2nd Duke of Aumerle, 2nd Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Derby, 3rd Count of Eu, 8th Baron Scales.
Children: Henry Bourchier (1464), Isabel Bourchier (1471), John Bourchier (1472), Eleanor Bourchier (1473).
Properties: Stanstead (parish of Halstead), Plashey Castle and Rivenhall in Essex; Barkway in Hertfordshire; and Ilsington, Middelton, Lynne, Hardwicke, Rongeton, Tylney and Clenchwarton in Norfolk.
Traits (9):
+2 Duels
+2 Joust
+2 Survival
+1 Charisma
+2 Battles
BIOGRAPHY:
Lord Henry Bourchier's second son and namesake, Lord Scales is the most beligerant and hot-headed of all his numerous offspring. Compared to the always sickly and melancholic William, viscount Bourchier, Henry always had a vitriolic temperament. As fiery as his father in his youth, Bourchier is a formidable rider, jouster and duellist, maybe the most fearsome on his whole family. He married, years ago, Lady Elizabeth Scales, de suo jure Baroness Scales, thus gaining control over the extense lands once held by her family. However, considering Viscount Bourchier's lack of a male heir the prospects of inheriting the whole estates of his father, the Duke of Aumerle, were becoming a less distant reality as the years passed by; Scales himself had a son, Henry. He took part in the wars between Lancaster and York, always serving under his father's banner, with the sole exception of Towton, when he fought under Norfolk's. His wife, Elizabeth, provided him with numerous properties, the core of such estates being Middelton, in Norfolk. In 1472, his elder brother William died, paving the way for Lord Scales' eventual inheritance of the whole Bourchier estates, save those entailed to the late viscount's title and inherited by his daughters and co-heiresses. The next year, the sweating sickness claimed the lifes of both his parents, four nephews and his youngest daughter. He hereby inherited all his father's titles.
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| FAMILY TREE | FAMILY TREE:
William Bourchier, married Anne of Gloucester:
-Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex and Derby (1404-1473), married Isabel of Cambridge (1409-1473):
William Bourchier, 2nd Viscount Bourchier (1430-1472), married Joan Neville: Anne Bourchier (1463) 3rd Viscountess Bourchier, betrothed to Arthur Plantagenet (1461).
Isabel Bourchier (1464-1473).
Eleanor Bourchier (1466-1473). Henry Bourchier, 2nd Duke of Aumerle, 2nd Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Derby, 3rd Count of Eu, 8th Baron Scales (1433), married Lady Elizabeth de Scales, Baroness Scales: Henry Bourchier (1464), Earl of Derby.
Isabel Bourchier (1471).
John Bourchier (1472).
Eleanor Bourchier (1473). Humphrey Bourchier (1437), Archbishop of Canterbury.
John Bourchier, 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby (1438), married Elizabeth Ferrers. Elizabeth Bourchier (1464). Edward Bourchier, 1st Baron Donnington (1439), married Margaret Neville.
Thomas Bourchier (1468).
John Bourchier (1471-1473). Laura Bourchier (1440), married John Courtenay.
Fulk Bourchier (died young).
Thomas Bourchier (1442), married Mary Woodville.
Richard Bourchier (1471-1473).
Edward Bourchier (1473). Hugh Bourchier (died young).
Florence Bourchier (1446), married Anthony Neville, Marquess of Somerset, Earl of Kent, Lord Fauconberg: Isabel Neville (1462), betrothed to John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (1461).
Joan Neville.
Mary Neville.
James Neville. Isabella Bourchier (died young). -John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners, married Margery Berners:Humphrey Bourchier, married Elizabeth Tilney: John Bourchier.
Joan Bourchier, married Sir Henry Neville (died 1469)
Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer.
Thomas Neville.
Joan Neville. -William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin, married Thomasine Hankford:Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin.
Blanche Bourchier. -Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury (1405-1473).
-Eleanor Bourchier (1417-1473), married John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk (1415-1471):John de Mowbray, Earl of Surrey, married Eleanor Neville:
William de Mowbray.
Edmund de Mowbray.
| HENRY BOURCHIER, 1st DUKE OF AUMERLE, 1404-1473 |
HENRY BOURCHIER, 1st DUKE OF AUMERLE, 1st EARL OF ESSEX, 1st EARL OF DERBY, 2nd COUNT OF EU
Motto: Le bon temps viendra.
Badge: Bourchier knot.
Seat: Stanstead (parish of Halstead), Plashey Castle.
Born 1404 (68).
Status: Married, to Isabel of Cambridge (born 1409).
Children: William Bourchier Viscount Bourchier (born 1430, married Joan Neville: three daughters, Anne [born 1463], Isabel Bourchier [born 1464] and Eleanor Bourchier [born 1466]), Henry Bourchier 8th Baron Scales (born 1433, married Elisabeth Scales, 8th Baroness Scales: a son, Henry Bourchier [born 1464], a daughter Isabel Bourchier [born 1471]), Humphrey Bourchier (1437, bishop of Exeter), John Bourchier 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby (born 1438, married Elisabeth Grey, heiress of the 5th Baron Ferrers of Groby: a daughter, Anne Bourchier [born 1464]), Edward Bourchier 1st Baron Donnington (born 1439, married Eleanor Neville: two sons, Thomas Bourchier [born 1468], John Bourchier [born 1471]), Laura Bourchier (1440, married John Courtenay), Fulk Bourchier (died young), Thomas Bourchier (born 1442, married Mary Woodville: a son, Richard Bourchier [born 1471]), Hugh Bourchier (died young), Florence Bourchier (born 1446, married Anthony Neville), Isabella Bourchier (died young).
Traits (12+2):
+3 Battles.
+3 Survival.
+2 Duels.
+2 Charisma (+2).
+1 Logistician.
+1 Rearguard.
BIOGRAPHY AND BACKGROUND:
Henry Bourchier is the son of William Bourchier and Anne of Gloucester. His father was a veteran soldier at the service of Henry V, awarded by the Lancastrian king with the county of Eu in 1419 for his many services to the crown. Anne of Gloucester (widow of the 3rd and 5th Earls of Stafford) was a granddaughter of Edward III through his youngest son, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, by his marriage to Eleanor de Bohun, coheiress to the Bohun estates along her sister Mary de Bohun, Bolingbroke’s wife. Henry Bourchier, firstborn son of the couple was thus maternal and paternal cousin of Henry V. Albeit insignificant compared to the realm’s greatest landlords, Bourchier has a good deal of influence through his many relations, including his brothers; two of whom are barons while the third (and youngest) is Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury. Thomas had been consecrated archbishop and primate of England in 1455 and became Lord Chancellor in the same year. With such a prominent brother patronizing him, Bourchier was confident of his promotion at court, being appointed as Lord Treasure in 1455. The own Henry Bourchier, 2nd Count of Eu, enjoys a good deal of influence himself, being a Knight of the Garter since 1452 and a veteran warrior who had been created 1st Viscount Bourchier in 1446 by King Henry VI. Most importantly, he had married Isabel of Cambridge in 1426, sole daughter of Richard of Cambridge and Anne Mortimer, herself a great-granddaughter of Edward III on both sides. That marriage aligned him with Richard of York, his brother-in-law, against York’s sworn enemy, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset. Locked in that deadly rivalry, Bourchier continued his support to the Yorkist cause, even after the noble duke’s death, being one of Edward of March’s most staunch supporter and allies.
Henry Bourchier is a fairly old man, the oldest and most experienced Yorkist alive, being fifty six years of age. Formerly strong and imposing, he has shrunk of late, growing feebler and fatter. His hair, once reddish, long has turned white and combined with his salt-and-pepper beard makes him look regal and imposing. Rather average on appearance and sober in manners, he is or was nothing like Suffolk of March, both famously handsome and charming. His marriage with Isabel of Cambridge was fruitful, having fathered together eleven children, of whom eight survived to adulthood. The eldest, William Bourchier, is a tall, lanky and golden-haired man, a fairly promising individual whom his father grooms and heir to his titles. William remains unwed, for his father seeks for him the most advantageous match possible; the potential groom is in many ways a descendant of Edward III, which along his connections makes him a fairly desirable match. The viscount was created Earl of Essex and Earl of Derby in 1462, after the fateful battle of Towton. His brother, Thomas, became a cardinal and later on, Lord Chancellor of England, after the Duke of Norfolk, Bourchier's brother-in-law, was dismissed from office. In 1468, he backed Elizabeth Woodville's claim against Margaret Percy, alongside William Neville, Earl of Kent, and Lord Montagu, his nephew. After the trial at Lincoln, where Woodville was acknowledged as rightful and sole wife of Edward IV, Henry Bourchier was created Duke of Aumerle for life in 1470, but barely a year later his title gained a remainder for his heirs male.
Henry Bourchier’s arms are those of Bourchier quartered with Louvain (for his grandmother, Eleanor of Louvain, descended from Godfrey III of Louvain) impaled with those of his wife, Isabel of Cambridge, which depict the arms of the Kingdom, a label of three points argent for difference. After being created Earl of Essex he added a quarter with the arms of the de Bohun earls. Later on, when he was created Duke of Aumerle, Henry Bourchier quartered his arms with those of Thomas of Woodstock, with an addition of a quarter for Bohun and a scutcheon for Derby.
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