Ancestral Trails 2016 » Edward BOURCHIER (1590-????)

Personal data Edward BOURCHIER 

• He was born in the year 1590 in Tawstock, Devon.
• He was baptized on March 1, 1589/90 in Tawstock, Devon.
• Title: Earl of Bath
• He died on March 2, 1636/37 in Tawstock, Devon, he was 46 years old.
• A child of William BOURCHIER and Elizabeth RUSSELL

Household of Edward BOURCHIER

(1) He is married to Dorothy St JOHN.

They got married on July 14, 1623 at Tawstock, Devon, he was 33 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Dorothy BOURCHIER  1627-???? 
2. Elizabeth BOURCHIER  1624-1670
3. Anne BOURCHIER  1631-???? 

(2) He is married to Anne LOVETT.

They got married in the year 1633 at Tawstock, Devon, he was 43 years old.

Notes about Edward BOURCHIER

Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath (Baptised 1 March 1590 - 31 March 1636).

He was born in Somerset the eldest son and heir of William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath by his wife Elizabeth Russell, daughter of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford by Margaret St John.

He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge.

Edward married twice:
Firstly on 14 July 1623 to his second cousin Dorothy St John (d.1632), daughter of Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso by his wife Dorothy Read. They had the following progeny:
John Bourchier, Baron FitzWarin (21 January 1630 - September, 1631), died young and predeceased his father.
Lady Elizabeth Bourchier (1626 - 22 September 1670), married Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, without progeny
Lady Dorothy Bourchier (1627-1659) married firstly Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby and was the mother of Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford; secondly Gustavus Mackworth, by whom she had issue.
Lady Anne Bourchier (1631-?), married firstly James Cranfield, 2nd Earl of Middlesex, the issue of which marriage was soon extinct; secondly Sir Chichester Wray, 6th Baronet (1652-1679), whose descendants, on the death of the 5th Earl of Bath in 1654, inherited the principal Bourchier seat of Tawstock.

Secondly, in 1633, to Ann Lovett, daughter of Sir Robert Lovett of Liscombe Park Buckinghamshire by his wife, Anne Saunders. Without progeny.

As he died without surviving male progeny he was succeeded by his father's first cousin, Henry Bourchier (1587-1654) who became the 5th Earl of Bath, who died without issue whereupon the title became extinct.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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