John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath (20 July 1470 – 30 April 1539) was createdEarl of Bath in 1536. He was thefeudal baron of Bampton in Devon.

Bourchier was born inEssex,England, the eldest son and heir ofFulk Bourchier, Baron Fitzwarin (d. 18 September 1479)^[1] by his wife Elizabeth Dynham, second daughter and co-heiress ofJohn Dynham, Baron Dynham.^[2] He was the brother ofElizabeth Bourchier.^{[citation needed]}

Bourchier married three times. His first wife was Cecily Daubeny, the daughter ofGiles Daubeny, 8th Baron Daubeny and Elizabeth Arundell, the daughter of John Arundell of Lanherne, Cornwall.^[2] They had eight children.^{[citation needed]} His second wife was Florence Bonville, widow of Humphrey Fulford, and daughter and coheir of John Bonville and Katharine Wingfield, the daughter of Robert Wingfield.^[2] His third wife was Elizabeth Wentworth, widow of Roger Darcy and Thomas Wyndham. She was the daughter ofHenry Wentworth ofNettlestead and Anne Say, the daughter of John Say.^[2]

With his first wife, Bourchier's heir wasJohn Bourchier, who became the next earl. His other children from his first marriage were Elizabeth who married Edward Chichester,^[3] Amias,^{[citation needed]} Dorothy who married John Fulford,^[4] Giles, Margaret or Margery, Anne, and Eleanor.^{[citation needed]} Margery, a daughter of Lord Fitzwaren, was an attendant at theField of the Cloth of Gold.^[5]

Bourchier was buried inBampton Church in Devon, where he had endowed achantry. Although part of an elaborate chest tomb survives in the church, according toNikolaus Pevsner it belong's to Bourchier's grandmother Thomasine Hankford, wife of William Bourchier.^[6] The first earl's tomb, which was destroyed sometime after 1770, was situated in the north aisle of Bampton Church and showed effigies of himself and his wife Cecily Daubeny with their eight children.^[7]

• Cokayne, George Edward (1912).The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs. Vol. II. London: St Catherine Press. p. 16.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1926).The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs and H.A. Doubleday. Vol. V. London: St Catherine Press. pp. 508–11.
• Hoskins, W. G. (1959) [1954].A New Survey of England: Devon. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (2004).The Buildings of England: Devon. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Vivian, J. L., ed. (1895).Herald's Visitation of Devon.

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• 1539 deaths
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