HUGUE DE BERNIERES.

Bernieres is in Normandy, near Falaise. Hugue de Bernieres was a sub-tenant in Essex, Cambridge and Middlesex in 1086 (Domesday). He held Bernston and Reding Bernfires under Geoffry de Mandeville in the former county. Eversdon in Cambridge was his chief seat and that of his posterity. William de Bernieres in 1093 witnessed a charter of Robert Fitz Hugh to Chester abbey. Ralph Berniers held six knights' fees, and Richard de Berniers seven, in 1165. In 1264 Ralph de Berners, one of the rebellious barons, was reinstated and pardoned and served later as the sheriff of Berks. He died in 1296, possessed of Islington in Middlesex, West Horsley in Surrey, Icklingham in Sussex, and the old Domesday manor of Berners' Berwick in Essex. A descendant, Margery, the sole heir of Richard de Bernieres, married sir John Bourchier, eventually summoned to parliament in 1454, as lord Berners. This sir John was the fourth son of William, earl of Eu by Anne Plantaganet, his wife. The title fell into abeyance and descending through heiresses to Robert Wilton, of Didlington, and to Luisa Strangways as co-heirs, and was eventually conferred on the former.

--(This name appears on the Falaise Roll).