same style which had been used by Philip van Arteveld ( i. 447 and i. 1, etc.). This
post he held for rather more than a year, and then returned in consequence of the
reconciliation of Ghent with the Duke of Burgundy ( i. 18-20). His son Bartholomew
is mentioned by Froissart as made knight before Saint-Omer by the earl of Buckingham
in 1380 ( i. 361).

This Bartholomew died without male issue and the barony of Bourchier passed
eventually to the descendants of his younger brother. William Bourchier, son of this
younger brother, married in 1419 Anne, daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, youngest
son of Edward III., and in the same year was created earl of Eu in Normandy. This
William earl of Eu had four sons and a daughter. The sons were -- (I) Henry earl of Eu,
afterwards viscount Bourchier, and finally earl of Essex; in 1449 associated with others in
a commission to govern Calais for five years, and in 1454 Lord Treasurer of England:
(2) William Lord Fitzwarren: (3) Thomas, who became archbishop of Canterbury and a
cardinal, Chancellor of England in 1486: (4) John, who married Margery, widow of
John Ferreby and heiress of Sir Richard Berners of West Horsley, Sussex, was sum-
moned to parliament as a baron in 1455 by the designation of John Bourchier de
Berners, chevalier, and was commonly called Lord Berners, though before this time there
was perhaps no barony of Berners. This John Bourchier fought for Henry VI. at the
first battle of St. Albans in 1455, but afterwards with the rest of his family he became
attached to the house of York, and was appointed by Edward IV. constable of Windsor
Castle. His eldest son, Humphrey, married Elizabeth Tylney, and was killed fighting
for Edward IV. at the battle of Barnet in 1471, leaving one son, the subject of this
notice, then a child not more than four years old, and two daughters, Margaret and
Anne. Three years later, on the death of his grandfather, the boy succeeded to the
title and estates.

John Bourchier, Lord Berners, the future translator of Froissart, was born either in
1467 or 1469, and probably grew up under the guardianship of Thomas Howard, after-
wards Duke of Norfolk, to whom his mother was married some few years after his
father's death.1 ¹ He was made a knight of the Bath in 1477, being then at most ten
years old, on the occasion of the betrothal of the King's second son, the young Duke of
York (afterwards murdered in the Tower), to Anne, daughter and heiress of John Mow-
bray, Duke of Norfolk. He was educated at Oxford, probably at Balliol College, and
afterwards travelled abroad, where he may probably have been during the troubles of
the reign of Richard III., which took place while he was still quite young. Whatever
line he individually might have taken owing to his connexion with the Howards, it is
evident that the behaviour of Richard III. had alienated the rest of the Bourchier family
from his cause; and we find that several members of it gave assistance to the earl of
Richmond. One, if not two, of Lord Berners' uncles had taken part in the insurrection
of Buckingham; one of them, Thomas Bourchier, fought for Richmond at Bosworth
field; and finally the ceremony of coronation on the accession of Henry VII. was per-
formed by cardinal Bourchier, then archbishop of Canterbury, the great-uncle of Lord
Berners.

The services thus rendered were requited by the favour of Henry VII., in which
naturally Lord Berners shared. He was first summoned to parliament by the style of
' John Bourgchier Lord of Berners' in the 11th year of Henry VII., having been previ-
ously employed at the siege of Boulogne in 1492. Some authorities say that he distin-
guished himself in putting down the insurrection of 1497, but this is perhaps a mistake,
arising from confusion between Lord Berners and his uncle Thomas Bourchier. On the
accession of Henry VIII. he became a favourite with the King and was employed in vari-
ous military enterprises. In 1513 we find him as captain of the pioneers at the siege
of Terouenne, where he did good service, especially in the recovery of a gun, which had
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