Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin
Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin was the son and heir of William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin and the father of John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath. He was feudal baron of Bampton in Devon.
Origins
Fulk Bourchier was the eldest son and heir of William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin by his wife Thomasine Hankford, a daughter and coheiress of Sir Richard Hankford of Annery, Devon, feudal baron of Bampton.Marriage and issue
Fulk Bourchier married Elizabeth Dynham, the daughter of Sir John Dinham of Nutwell by his wife Joan Arches, and sister and coheir of John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham. After the death of Fulk Bourchier, Elizabeth Dynham remarried twice, firstly to Sir John Sapcotes of Elton, Huntingdonshire; a stained glass heraldic escutcheon survives in Bampton church showing the arms of Sapcotes impaling Dinham. After the death of Sapcotes, Elizabeth Dynham remarried secondly to Sir Thomas Brandon of Duddington, Northamptonshire. There was no issue of Elizabeth Dynham's marriage to Thomas Brandon, and according to Gunn, after his death she took a vow of celibacy before Bishop Fisher on 21 April 1510. She died 19 October 1516, and was buried in the Greyfriars, London.By Elizabeth Dynham, Fulk Bourchier had the following children:
- John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath
- Joan Bourchier, second wife of James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, who was beheaded 28 June 1497 on Tower Hill for his part in the Cornish rebellion, and buried at the Blackfriars, London.
- Elizabeth Bourchier who married, as his second wife, Sir Edward Stanhope, by whom she was the mother of Anne Stanhope, the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, brother of Queen Jane Seymour, uncle of King Edward VI and Lord Protector of England. The Duchess's monument and effigy survives in Westminster Abbey and displays profusely the Bourchier arms and Bourchier knots.
Death and burial
Bourchier died 18 September 1479 at the age of thirty-three. In his will, dated 1 April 1475 and proved 10 November 1480, he requested burial in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin at Bampton, Devon, next to the tomb of his mother, the Lady Thomasine. He left the residue of his estate to his wife, Elizabeth Dynham, whom he made his sole executrix.Dugdale, quoting the will of Fulk Bourchier, shows that his father, William Bourchier, and his mother, Thomasine Hankford, are also buried at Bampton, as he bequeathed his body to be buried at Bampton near the grave of his mother, Lady Thomasine, and he willed that marble stones with inscriptions should be placed on his own grave and that of his father, Lord William, and his mother, Lady Thomasine.