Anne Bourchier, Baroness Dacre (1470 – 29 September 1530) was an English noblewoman, the wife of Sir Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre. Her stepfather was Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, which made Queen consort Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England, her niece. Her son-in-law was Henry Norris, who was executed for treason in 1536, as one of the alleged lovers of her niece, Queen Anne.
Anne Dacre was commemorated as one of the ladies in John Skelton's poem, Garlande of Laurrell, when the Poet Laureate was a guest in the Howard residence of Sheriff Hutton Castle.
Anne was also styled as Lady Dacre of the South.
She was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Catherine of Aragon.
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Anne was born in 1470, the youngest daughter of Sir Humphrey Bourchier and Elizabeth Tilney. Anne’s paternal grandparents were Sir John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners and Lady Margery Berners. Sir John Bourchier was knighted and the title of Baron Berners was created, which passed directly to Anne’s brother John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners due to her father’s death. Anne’s maternal grandparents were Sir Frederick Tilney and Elizabeth Cheney, Lady Say. Elizabeth Cheney was the great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard and married twice, first Sir Frederick Tilney and after his death Sir John Say.