Mary Bourchier

Mary Say was a Lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon.

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• Mary Say1
• F, #90681, b. circa 1483, d. after 5 June 1535
• Father Sir William Say, Sheriff of Somerset, Dorset, Essex, & Hertfordshire, Burgess of Plympton, Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshrie1,2 b. c 1452, d. 4 Dec 1529
• Mother Elizabeth Fray1 b. c 1441, d. a 13 Jan 1495
• Mary Say was born circa 1483 at of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England.1 She married Sir Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex, Viscount & Lord Bourchier, Count of Eu, son of Sir William Bourchier, Viscount Bourchier and Anne Wydeville, circa 1498.1 Mary Say died after 5 June 1535.1
• Family Sir Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex, Viscount & Lord Bourchier, Count of Eu b. c 1472, d. 13 Mar 1540
• Citations
• 1.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 138-139.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 741.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3018.htm#...
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• Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex KG KB PC (died 13 March 1540) was an English soldier, peer and courtier at the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. He married Mary Say, by whom he had one daughter, Anne, who became his heir.
• Bourchier was the son of William Bourchier, Viscount Bourchier and Anne Woodville. Through his mother, he was the nephew of Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort to Edward IV and in 1483, due to the death of his grandfather Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex, he inherited the earldom. The 1st Earl of Essex was a grandson of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, the youngest son of King Edward III. The 2nd Earl's paternal grandmother was Isabel of Cambridge, Countess of Essex who by both parents was a descendant of King Edward III.
• Bourchier was a member of Henry VII's privy council and was present at the siege of Boulogne in 1492. Five years later he led a detachment against the rebels at Blackheath. When Henry VIII became king, he was made captain of the new bodyguard, and in 1513 was lieutenant-general of the spears (light cavalry) at the sieges of Thérouanne and Tournai. The following year he was appointed Chief Captain of the King's forces. He was one of the judges at the trial of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham when the latter was tried on a charge of treason, and received the manor of Bedminster as his share of the Duke's forfeited estates.
• In March 1540, he broke his neck after falling from his horse and died from his injury. His barony was inherited by his daughter, who was separated from her husband, William Parr, Baron Parr of Kendal, brother of Queen Katherine Parr, who was later created Earl of Essex in 1543 and Marquess of Northampton in 1547.[1]
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bourchier,_2nd_Earl_of_Essex
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• 1. WILLIAM Bourchier (-killed in battle Barnet 14 Apr 1471[703]). A manuscript pedigree dated to [1500] names "Elizabeth Countess of Essex" as daughter of "Anne Countess of Cambridge" and mother of "William Lord Bouchier"[704]. He was styled Viscount Bourchier. [705]Maybe m firstly ISABEL de Vere, daughter of JOHN de Vere Earl of Oxford & his wife Elizabeth Howard . m [secondly] (before 15 Aug 1467) as her first husband, ANNE Wydeville, daughter of RICHARD Wydeville Earl Rivers & his wife Jacquette de Luxembourg ([1438]-30 Jul 1489). A manuscript pedigree dated to [1500] names "Anne Lady Bouchier" as daughter of "Richard Earl Rivers" and mother of "Henry Earl of Essex" and of "Lady Ferrers of Chartley"[706]. She married secondly Sir Edward Wingfield, and thirdly (before 26 Jun 1480) as his first wife, George Grey Earl of Kent. William & his wife had three children:
  • c) HENRY ([posthumously][708] [1471/72]-Baas Manor, Broxbourne 13 Mar 1540, bur Little Easton, Essex). A manuscript pedigree dated to [1500] names "Anne Lady Bouchier" as daughter of "Richard Earl Rivers" and mother of "Henry Earl of Essex" and of "Lady Ferrers of Chartley"[709]. He succeeded his paternal grandfather in 1483 as Earl of Essex. He died having broken his neck by a fall from a German horse[710]. m ([1498]) MARY Say, daughter and co-heiress of Sir WILLIAM Say of Broxbourne and Essenden, Hertfordshire & his second wife Elizabeth Fray (-after 5 Jun 1535). Henry & his wife had one child:
    • i) ANNE (-26 Jan 1571). She succeeded her father in 1540 as Baroness Bourchier, suo iure. m (9 Feb 1527, repudiated 1543, confirmed by Act of Parliament 17 Apr 1543[711], annulled 1552) as his first wife, WILLIAM Parr, son of Sir THOMAS Parr of Kendal, Westmoreland & his wife Matilda Green of Green´s Norton, Northamptonshire ([1511/12]-Warwick 28 Oct 1570, bur Warwick St Mary´s). He was created Baron Parr of Kendal in 1539, Earl of Essex in 1543 and Marquess of Northampton in 1547 and 1559. Baroness Anne had one illegitimate daughter by an unknown father: ....
• From: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#...
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