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Thomas Bourchier (1404 – 30 March 1486) was a medieval English cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor of England.
Thomas Bourchier - Enciclopedia Católica. Martes, 23 de abril de 2024. Thomas Bourchier nació en 1406; murió en 1486, cardenal, fue el tercer hijo de William Bourchier, Duque de Eu y de Lady...
26 de mar. de 2024 · Thomas Bourchier (born c. 1412—died March 30, 1486, Knole, Kent, Eng.) was an English cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury who maintained the stability of the English church during the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between the houses of York and Lancaster.
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THOMAS BOURCHIER (c.1404-1486), English archbishop, Lord Chancellor and cardinal, was a younger son of William Bourchier, count of Eu (d. 1420), and through his mother, Anne, a daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, was a descendant of Edward III.
Bourchier, THOMAS, b. 1406; d. 1486, Cardinal, was the third son of William Bourchier, Earl of Eu, and of Lady Anne Plantagenet, a daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Edward III. At an early age he entered the University of Oxford, and in due course, embracing a clerical career, was collated to the living of ...
In 1475 Bourchier was employed as one of the arbitrators on the differences pending between England and France. Growing feeble, in 1480 he appointed as his coadjutor William Westkarre who had been consecrated in 1458 Bishop of Sidon.
He died on 6 April, 1486, as Knowle, a mansion he had purchased for his see, and was buried in Canterbury cathedral. It fell to his lot as archbishop to preside in 1457 at the trial of Reginald Peacock, Bishop of Chichester, charged with unorthodoxy.
