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Bourchier, Thomas

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Bourchier, Thomas (c. 1410-1486)

English archbishop of Canterbury 1454-86. He was previously bishop of Worcester in 1434 and bishop of Ely in 1443, and was Lord Chancellor 1455-56. Bourchier supported the Lancastrians at the beginning of the Wars of the Roses, but from 1461 supported Edward IV, whom he crowned. He also crowned Richard III and Henry VII. He was made a cardinal in 1467.


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