Richard de Bures

Richard Burres (Richard de Bures) is listed as having had a tenure as Grand Master of the Templars (Order of the Poor Knights of Jesus Christ and of the Temple of Solomon) Richard is the 11th great grandfather of Roger, Margaret and Carl Wolfhagen.

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Family

• 1. Nicholas de Bures, died after 1275.
• 2. Sir Robert de Bures of Acton, Suffolk, England, held the manors of MagnaBures, Foxherd and Westons, died September 1331+ Alice ______, died in 1302.
• 3. Sir Andrew de Bures of Acton, Suffolk, England, held the manors of Foxherd, Leyham, Bowthorp, Wychambroke, Great Waldingfield, Wherested and Reydon, born about 1301,died April 12, 1360+ Alice de Reydon, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Reydon of Overbury Hall, Leyham, Suffolk, England, died August 23, 1392.
• 4. Andrew de Bures of Radwinter, Essex, England, died 1376+ Alice Spencer
• 5. Andrew de Bures, Esq., of Bromptons, Colne Engaine, Essex, England, died after September 1402+ Catherine Chiltren
• 6. William de Bures of Bromptons Manor, Essex, England+ Elizabeth Roos of Roos Manor, Radwinter, Essex, England
• 7. William Bures, Esq., of Bromptons, Essex, England, died after 1486+ Joan Marham
• 8. Andrew Bures
• 9. Richard Burre of Much Canfield, Essex, England, died 1569
• 10. Symon Burre of Much Canfield, died 1598+ Joan ______
• 11. Henry Burre of Stisted, Essex, England, baptized in 1569 in Much Canfield+ Ann Fisher, daugher of Gregory Fisher of Redgrave, Essex, England
• 12. Simon Burr of Hingham, Massachusetts, bapized. in Sisted in 1618, died February 7, 1691/92*

Source : "Bures of Suffolk England and Burr of Massachusetts Bay Colony New England" by Chauncey Rea Burr, privately published in New York in 1926

Link: http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Burr_Family_History...

Per record of Charles Burr Todd:

Richard Burre the elder, as he is styled in his will, was living in 1562 when this was made and dead in 1569 when it was probated. His children were; Symonde, Richard, George, Henry, Joane, and Alice. Of these, Symonde Burre was married at Great Canfield in 1552. Richard was buried there in 1610. The others I have no record of.

Link:https://books.google.com/books?id=MD07AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR20&img=1&zoom=3...

Added by D. Glenn, 2/8/2015