- BERNERS, JOHN BOUCHIER, LORD
- writer or translator of romance; was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1516, and governor of Calais from 1520; translated Froissart's "Huon of Bordeaux," &c.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BERNERS, JOHN BOUCHIER, LORD
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