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 344 BERMINGHAM— BERXERS. BERMIJfGHAM. Barony by J. "William Beiimincmiam, of Bcrmiitglmm, Co. Warwick, writ. s, alu i ii_ 0 { VrDliam 1!. of the same, having distinguished himself during the reign or Edward II, had summons to Va.fi. as a Baron (LORD I. 132*. BERMINGHAM) by writ 3 April (1327) 1 Ed. HI., but not afterwards. [Sin Thomas DE Birmingham, tfraiulsnii ami h. Eut nuver suin. as a Baron,  EU hi Normandy, by Anne( c ) da. of Thomas (IYantaookt. I 1455 siirnamed "of Woodstock") Di'kk OK(ir.OlU'ESTKll (6th H. of Kdward HI) having m. Margery, widow of John Ferhkiiy (who it. s.p.) and da. and h, of Sir Kicliard BERNEHsof West llorsley, Sussex (usually spoken of as Loud BEHXERSp 1 ) was on 2ti May (1455) 33 Hen. VI, Uy the designation of "John /SoHttAier de /ici'iars, Chevalier," Mini, to Pari, as a Baron (LORD BURNERS^')) and continued to be so sum. till lfl Aug. (1472) 12 Ed. IV.( r ) K.G. before 23 April 1469. He died lf> May 1474 and was bur. at Chertsev Abbey. Surrey. Will dat. 21 March (1473/4), 11 Ed. IV, pr. 21 June 1474, " Test. Yet." His widow (/. (1 47a) 13 Ed. 1 V. II. 1474, :!. Jonx (BotrBcniBR), Lord Eehnkus, grandson and h. to beings, and h. of Sir Humphrey Bourchicr by Elizabeth', K| da. and 1533. sole h. of Frederick Th.ney of Boston, Co. Lincoln, which Humphrey was «. and h. ap. of the last Lord and v.p. being slain at the buttle (') Dugdale writes (vol. ii, p. 108) "The collateral male heir continued much longer and possessed that fair Lordship of Bermingham until, towards the end of King Henry the Eight's time, that Edward Bermingham, the last of them was oddly wrested out of it by John Dudley, a person of no small interest, afterwards Duke of Northumberland." ( b ) Of her two daughters and coheirs (1) Elena M. Edward (de Ferrers), Lord Ferrers of C'hartley, and was ancestress of the succeeding Lords, and (2) Elizabeth m. Charles Longueville and was ancestress of the Lords Grey de Ruthin. ( c ) She was sole h. to her Dr. Humphrey, Earl of Buckingham, and thus transmitted to her representatives the right of quartering the royal treat as differenced in the grant thereof to her said Father. P) " In the reign of Henry V, Richard Berners ' had the reputation of a Baron of this realm, though nothing of his creation or summons t<> Parliament that [ could ever see,' says Dugdale, 'doth appear thereof ;' ob. 1121, s.p.m." Margery, his daughter ami heir, married to her second husband Sir John Bourchier, as above. See " Nicolas," reproduced by " Courthope." (°) "But in 2 Ed. IV. he was sum. as Dominus Bernen, an 1 from C Ed, D to 10 Ed. IV. (inclusive) as Jnhannes 1'rmers" Ex inform. J. Horace Round. Ac- cording to the first writ, however, (that in 14. r io) the title would seem rather to have been LORD Jlnurchier nis Beiixeks, then' having (apparently) beeu no previously aeknovUdgtd Barony of Bevners of which he (jure iiianli) was a representative. It has however always Ijcen spoken of as " Borners " and accordingly is s given hero. C) There is proof of his fitting in the rolls of Pari (8) This Elisabeth was afterwards the iirat wife to Thomas (Howard) Duke of Norfolk and ancestress of the succeeding Dukes.