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 248 BOURCHIER Lodewico Robessart.(^) He d. s.p., 26 Nov. 1431, being killed in an action near Amiens, and was bur. in Westm. Abbey. She d. a widow, and ;./>., I July 1433, and was also bur. there. V. 1433. 5. Henry (Bourchier), Lord Bourchier, as also Count of Eu in Normandy, cousin and h., being s. VISCOUNTCY. and h. of Sir William Bourchier, Count of EujC") afsd. I 1446. (^° '■• '° Juf^c 1419), by Anne, widow of Edmund, Earl of Stafford, da. and h. of Thomas,() Duke of Gloucester (yst. s. of Edward III), which Sir William was s. and h. of another Sir William Bourchier, the yr. s. of Robert, istLoRD Bourchier abovenamed. On 28 May 1420, when scarcely 16, he i«f. his father in his Norman Countship, and about 13 years afterwards sue. his cousin in the English estates, after which he was sum. to Pari, from 5 July (1435) 13 Hen. VI to 13 Jan. (1444/5) ^3 Hen. VI, ('^) by writs variously directed Henrico Bourgchier CKlr^ Henrico Bourghchier de Bourghchier or Henrico Bourgchier Comiti de Ewe.(f) Shortly after this last writ he was cr., by patent, VISCOUNT BOURCHIER Q (possibly Viscount Bourchier of Tickhill,(8) CO. York), and was sum. to Pari, as such from 14 Dec. (1446) (*) In Beltz's Knights of the Garter, p. 97, the description of these men is " Hugh Stafford, Lord Bourchier" and " Sir Lewis Robessart — Lord Bourchier." This would seem to imply (not only that '■'■Bourchier" was their Peerage title, but) that Hugh was Lord Bourchier when elected, and that Lewis became Lord Bourchier, after his election. See note sub Boteler, ut supra. i^) This Earldom was granted by Henry V to this Sir William Bourchier and the heirs male of his body by Anne, his wife, but the actual possession of the Norman " County" was lost in 1450, when the English were driven out of Normandy. An interesting and full account of the " Counts of Eu," written by R. E. Chester Waters, was published in the Transactions of the Yorkshire Archaological Society in 1886. (') As to his supposed name of " Plantagenet " see vol. i, p. 183, note"c." V.G. {^) See note " a " on previous page. (') Observe, however, that this writ is not in the same form as that to English Earls, where the surname is omitted; e.g. the writ '■'fohanni, Comiti Oxon" in the same Pari. As to the using a foreign title of a higher grade in the summons of an English Peer, see the cases of the Earldom of Angus [S.], 1297-1380; the Earldom of Atholl [S.] 1322-1369; the Earldom of Buchan [S.], 1334-1339, where the Lords Umfreville, the Lords Strathbogie, and the Lords Beaumont were respectively so summoned ; see also the writ in 1348 to Edwardo de Balliolo Regi Scotia; that in 1370 to Edward, Prince of Aquttaine and Wales, b'c. (') He was the second of that order. The first who was so created (Viscount Beaumont) had like himself a French feudal Peerage. Though no patent of his creation is enrolled, it was expressly stated by Norroy King of Arms (on the occasion of the creation of the Viscountcy of Berkeley in 1480) that the creation was "ij* patent and in his gown." Sec Courthope, p. xlvii. G.E.C. He was one of the 4 sons of Sir William Bourchier, Count of Eu, who all sat together in the House of Lords. See note sub Eu, and for simitar cases see note sub Boyle of Kinalmeaky. V.G. (*) See Chester Waters' treatise (as referred to in note "b") p. 2.