Robert Bourchier

- 1349

• Name	Robert Bourchier
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 12 Mar 1349 and 18 Aug 1349  [1, 2]
  Burial	Halstead, Great Bromley, Essex, England   [2]
  Person ID	I14321	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	28 May 2018

  
  

  Father	John Bousser   d. Between Jul 1329 and Oct 1330
  Mother	Helen Colchester
  Marriage	1302  [2]
  Family ID	F8939	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Prayers
  Marriage	Bef 1349  [2]
  Children	+ 1. William de Bourchier   d. 1375
  Family ID	F8927	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 May 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Robert Bousser. Administrator, soldier, and diplomat. First layman to hold the post of chancellor of England. Probably died of the plague. Knight of the shire for Essex in 1328-29, 1330, 1332, and 1339.

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., year only. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.