Paternal Family Tree: Bourchier
Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier was born to John Bourchier and Helen of Colchester.
Before 1329 Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier and Margaret Prayers Baroness Bourchier were married.
In 1329 [his son] John Bourchier 2nd Baron Bourchier was born to Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier and [his wife] Margaret Prayers Baroness Bourchier. He married before 1374 Maud Coggeshall Baroness Bourchier and had issue.
In 1330 [his father] John Bourchier died.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. In the year of our Lord 1340, and the fifteenth year of his reign over England, the king celebrated Christmas at Guildford, and afterward held a tournament at Reading. Again, on the feast of the Purification1 [2nd Feb], at Langley of the Boys [King's Langley Priory], on account of the honour of the nobles from Gascony whom he there knighted, he held solemn tournaments. Also in this year, he appointed Sir Robert de Bourchier as Chancellor of England, and Sir Robert de Sadyngton and Sir Robert de Parnynk successively to the office of Treasurer.
Anno Domini MCCCXLJ, regni vero sui Anglie quintodecimo, rex celebravit Christi Natale apud Guldeford, et postea apud Reding hastiludiavit. Iterum in festo Purificacionis, apud Langeley puerorum, propter honourem nobilium de Vasconia quos ibidem cinxit ad ordinem militarem, habuit solempnia hastiludia. Item, hoc anno fecit Robertum de Boursier, militem, cancellarium Anglie, et Robertum de Sadyntone et Robertum de Parnynk, milites, ad officium tesaurarie sucessive ordinavit.
Note 1. Stow Annales 371.
Sir Robert Bourchier was chief justice of the King's Bench in Ireland in 1334. He fought at Cadzand in 1337, and at Crécy in 1346. He was chancellor from the 14th December 1340 to the 27th October 1341. He was summoned to parliament in 1342, and died of the plague in 1349. Robert Parning was a sergeant-at-law only at the beginning of Edward's reign, but in 1340 was rapidly promoted to be justice of the Common Pleas, 23rd May; chief justice of the King's Bench, 24th July; and treasurer, 15th December. On Bourchier's resignation he became chancellor, 27th October 1341; and died 26th August 1343. Robert Sadington was chief baron of the Exchequer in 1337, and treasurer for a brief period, 2nd May to 21st June 1340. He became chancellor in 1343, on the death of Parning, resigned in 1345, and died in 1350. Foss, Judges, 3.
On 14th December 1340 Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier was appointed Lord Chancellor.
In 1342 Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier was created 1st Baron Bourchier. [his wife] Margaret Prayers Baroness Bourchier by marriage Baroness Bourchier.
On 26th August 1346 the army of King Edward III of England [aged 33] defeated the French army at the Battle of Crécy. The English army was commanded by King Edward III of England, his son Edward "Black Prince" [aged 16], Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick [aged 33], William Bohun 1st Earl of Northampton [aged 36] and John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Warwick [aged 30].
The English army was included: Bishop Thomas of Hatfield [aged 36], Hugh Despencer 1st Baron Despencer [aged 38], Bernard Brocas [aged 16], Thomas Felton [aged 16], James Audley [aged 28], Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier, Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 59], Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh [aged 18], Reginald Cobham 1st Baron Cobham [aged 51], John Darcy 1st Baron Darcy of Knayth [aged 66], Robert Ferrers 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley [aged 37], Richard Scrope 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton [aged 19], William Scrope [aged 21], Stephen Scrope [aged 21], William Latimer 4th Baron Latimer of Corby [aged 16], John Lisle 2nd Baron Lisle [aged 28], Gerard Lisle 1st Baron Lisle [aged 42], Nicholas Longford [aged 61], Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu, Walter Paveley 4th Baron Burghesh [aged 27], Michael Poynings 1st Baron Poynings [aged 28], Robert Ufford 1st Earl Suffolk [aged 48], John de Vere 7th Earl of Oxford [aged 34], Thomas West [aged 34], John Willoughby 2nd Baron Willoughby [aged 43], John Wingfield [aged 26], Henry Percy 11th and 3rd Baron Percy [aged 25], Hugh Courtenay 2nd or 10th Earl Devon [aged 43] (possibly), Walter "Elder" Devereux [aged 37], John Devereux [aged 44], Enion Sais Brecon, John Chandos [aged 26], Richard Pembridge [aged 26] and John Sully [aged 63].
The French army suffered significant casualties. King Philip "Fortunate" VI of France [aged 52] was wounded. William de Coucy [aged 60] and his son Enguerrand 6th Lord de Coucy [aged 33] and were killed.
Charles II Count Alençon [aged 49] was killed. His son Charles [aged 9] succeeded Count Alençon.
Louis Chatillon II Count Blois I Count Chatillon was killed. His son Louis succeeded III Count Blois.
Louis Dampierre II Count Nevers I Count Flanders [aged 42] was killed. His son Louis [aged 15] succeeded III Count Nevers, II Count Flanders.
King John I of Bohemia [aged 50] was killed. His son Charles [aged 30] succeeded IV King Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor Luxemburg. Blanche Valois Holy Roman Empress Luxemburg [aged 29] by marriage Holy Roman Empress Luxemburg.
Rudolph "Valiant" Metz I Duke Lorraine [aged 26] was killed. His son John succeeded I Duke Lorraine.
Jean IV de Harcourt [aged 39] was killed.
On 20th August 1348 Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier died of plague whilst escorting King Edward III's daughter Joan [aged 14] [who died a fortnight later] to Spain to marry Peter, the future King Peter of Castile. His son John [aged 19] succeeded 2nd Baron Bourchier.
[his son] William Bourchier was born to Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier and Margaret Prayers Baroness Bourchier. He married Eleanor Louvaine and had issue.
father: John Bourchier 
Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier
Grandfather: Walter of Colchester
mother: Helen of Colchester