Margery Bourchier

Margery Berners (d 1475)

Margery Berners was christened just after birth on 30 November 1408. She was the daughter of Sir Richard Berners and Philippa (daughter of Walter Dalyngruge and Maragaret Chamond).[1][2]

1475 Margery who was the wife of John Bourchier, kt, was seized at her death of West Horseley, Surrey, Berners Bury, Iseldon in Middlesex, Berners in Ikelingham, Suffolk, further of the manors of Estle, Chigenhale Tany and Zoyne, Norton Southtorp, Northtorp Bernersnesh Polemersh, Berner Roding, Beaumont, Crypping, Berners Berwick, Springfield, Sende in Essex (CIPM V. 4, p. 371).

She married:

• (1) Sir John Ferreby. He died 10 October 1441.[2]
• (2) John Bourchier in 1441. They were fined in 1442 for having married without royal license.[2]

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Berners-4

Philippa's and Richard's daughter Margaret or Margery, was firstly married at the age of 15 to John Ferreby, who on 8 Feb. 1423 was appointed Comptroller of the Household of Henry VI (Proceedings of the Privy Council). On 13 July 1408 "John Feriby," the younger, son of Hugh Feriby of Barton, and Robert Webster received the keeping of 2 messuages and land in South Feriby (CFR). John had been present at the Battle of Azincourt 1415. In 1426 and 1436 John was sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. In the latter year he was ordered to deliver the counties of Surrey and Sussex to William Peyto (CRF). - John died without issue in 1441, seised of Berners' manor in Ikelyngham and the advocation [right to rents] of the church in Suffolk (CIPM).

Margery Berners (d. 18 Dec 1475) married secondly Sir John Bourchier, KG, (d. 1474), youngest brother of Henry, 2d Earl of Essex (1404 - 4 April 1483), the 2 being uncles of King Edward IV. They descended of John Bourchier of Stansted, Essex, judge of the Common Pleas, married to Helen, daughter and heir of Walter of Colchester

Children:

https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p735.htm#...

They had 3 sons (Sir Humphrey; Sir Thomas; & John, a cleric) and 2 daughters (Joan/Jane, wife of Sir Henry Neville; & Elizabeth, wife of Sir Robert Welles)

https://www.1820settlers.com/documents/Bowker_Bourchier/data/fam198...

1. Joan Bourchier (c. 1442-1470)
2. Humphrey Bourchier - 1st and last Lord Bourchier of Cromwell (aft1440-1471)
3. Elizabeth Bourchier - Baroness Welles (c. 1446-aft1470)
4. Thomas Bourchier (1448-1512)

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Notes

Anne de Berners married a second husband, John Bryan, who seems to have held the manor jointly with her until her death in 1403, when her son Richard de Berners came into possession. Bryan released his right in the manor to Richard in 1406. Three years later Richard enfeoffed trustees of his estate to the use of himself and his wife Philippa, with remainder to their heirs. He died in 1417. Philippa married a second husband, Thomas Leukenore, but did not live long afterwards, and at her death Margery daughter of Richard de Berners was found to be her heir. Margery while still a child was married to John Fereby, who held his first court at West Horsley in 1420. He died in 1441, and she then became the wife of Sir John Bourchier. In 1442 certain trustees released the manor to Sir John Bourchier, called Berners, summoned to Parliament in 1455 as Baron Berners, and to Margery his wife, which was probably a form of marriage settlement. By her second husband Margery had issue Humphrey, who, however, died before his mother, being killed at Barnet in 1471, so that at her death in 1475 the manor passed to her grandson John Bourchier, Baron Berners, then a child of eight. John, known as the translator of Froissart, was also a distinguished soldier and courtier in the expensive court of Henry VIII, and in 1518 he mortgaged the manor to Thomas Unton and others. He died in 1522.

Parishes: West Horsley, A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1911.

http://knightlyfamilies.com/dallingridge.htm

Note: Douglas Richardson states that Richard Berner's wife was Isabel Moleyns, and that Margery was probably their daughter and not Philippa's. - Nicholas Berners in 1420 appears in the Essex Fines. He may be the son of Richard and Isabel. - Douglas Richardson maintains that Richard Berners died on 6 August 1412, whereas the CIPM V. 4, p. 27 under the title 'Escaet' de anno Quinto Henrici Quinti' of 1417 gives his holdings as Westhorsley, held of Windsor castle, Bernersbury in Ifelden and Ikelyngham manor in Middlesex.
In 1409 Richard Berners received licence for 20 marks to enfeoff certain persons in Kent of the manor of West Horseley, Surrey, and for them to grant the manor to Thomas Knolles, citizen and alderman in London (see Knolles), and others. The latter then were to grant the manor to Richard Berners and Philippa his wife for life with remainder to their heirs., meaning that Richard and Philippa were married in 1409. - In 1410 Master John Middleton, clerk, quitclaims to Richard Berners and others the manor of Chalfhunte St. Giles, called 'le Vache' and land there and in other places (CCR). In 1411 the escheator of Huntingdon was to procure dower to Lucy, widow of Edmund earl of Kent comprising Ikelyngham, lately held by John Berners.
Richard died on 2 Oct. 1417 seized of West Horseley, held of the castle of Windsor, Surrey, Bernerbury in Iselden and Ikelyngham manor in Middlesex (CIPM). - Philippa who was the wife of Richard Berners, kt., holds West Horsley manor and the advowson of the church of the Barony of Windsor in Surrey (CIPM). - Another CIPM V. 30 showes that Richard died on 6 August 1412, writ 17 October 1417 holding Horseley manor in Surrey,. Inquisition 8 October. His heiress is his daughter Margery aged 7 and more Thomas Lewknor and Philippa Dallingridge, widow of Richard Berners hold West Horseley since his death. Writ 6 December 1417, inquisition 4 March 1418: Richard held the manor of Barnesbury on 24 Oct. 1417. Thomas Lewknor, kt., and Philippa hold one third in dower. There were further inquisitions in Norfolk and Suffolk on 2 December 1417.