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John Bourchier ( Tharfield, Hertfordshire, hacia 1467 - Calais, 16 de marzo de 1533), II barón Berners, diplomático, militar, escritor e hispanista inglés del siglo XVI . Educado en Oxford, desempeñó importantes cargos en la Corte; fue miembro del Parlamento desde 1495 a 1529 e incluso fue nombrado en 1516 Chancellor of the Exchequer de ...
Joan Bourchier (d. 1561), who married Sir Edmund Knyvet (d. 1 May 1539), sergeant porter to King Henry VIII, and was her father's heir, and had: John Knyvett, father of Thomas Knyvett, 4th Baron Berners (1539–1616) Margaret Bourchier, who predeceased her father. Mary Bourchier, who married Alexander Unton of Wadley, but died without issue ...
17 de abr. de 2024 · John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners was an English writer and statesman, best known for his simple, fresh, and energetic translation (vol. 1, 1523; vol. 2, 1525) from the French of Jean Froissart’s Chroniques. Berners’ active political and military career started early when at the age of 15 he was.
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John Bourchier ( Tharfield, Hertfordshire, hacia 1467 - Calais, 16 de marzo de 1533), II barón Berners, diplomático, militar, escritor e hispanista inglés del siglo XVI. John Bourchier, Ambrosius Benson, 1520-1526. Educado en Oxford, desempeñó importantes cargos en la Corte; fue miembro del Parlamento desde 1495 a 1529 e incluso fue ...
Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex, and William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin jure uxoris, were his elder brothers. He was knighted in 1426 and in 1455 he was summoned to the House of Lords as John Bourchier de Berners, which created the title of Baron Berners. In 1459 he was further honoured when he was made a Knight of the Garter.
John Bourchier, Lord Berners, translator of the Valenciennes chronicler, Froissart, was born in Hertfordshire about 1467, and belonged to a courtly Tudor group who were little affected by the revival of classicism. Berners left Balliol College, probably without taking a degree, to seek a military career.
John Bourchier was born circa 1467 in Tharfield, Herts. He was the son of Humphrey Bourchier and Elizabeth Tilney: she was heiress to estates in Lincolnshire. Humphrey was killed at the Battle of Barnet, in 1471. John Bourchier succeeded to the title of Baron Berners aged seven, when his grandfather died. The Bourchiers were a prominent family ...
