John Bourchier

Also known as: sir Iohn Bourchier · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: knight · First appears: Edward IV 2

Life events

c. 1485 · Henry VII left Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset, and John Bourchier as pledges or hostages for borrowed money.(Richard III 18 · 📍 Rone)
- With: Henry VII Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset
- “for the which he left as debter (or more likelie as a pledge or hostage) lord Thomas marquesse Dorset (whome he halfe mistrusted) and sir Iohn Bourchier”

parent: Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex “Richard duke of Yorke long before this time, had giuen his sister Elizabeth in mariage, of whome he begat foure sonnes, William, Thomas, Iohn and Henrie”
siblings with William Bourchier “of whome he begat foure sonnes, William, Thomas, Iohn and Henrie”
siblings with Thomas Bourchier, son “of whome he begat foure sonnes, William, Thomas, Iohn and Henrie”
siblings with Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex (son) “of whome he begat foure sonnes, William, Thomas, Iohn and Henrie”

with Henry VII (Henry VII left Bourchier as a pledge or hostage for money borrowed from Charles VIII and others.) “and borrowing certeine summes of monie of him, and of diuerse other his priuate fréends, for the which he left as debter (or more likelie as a pledge or hostage) lord Thomas marquesse Dorset (whome he halfe mistrusted) and sir Iohn Bourchier”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.