Robert Bourchier was a prominent fourteenth-century Essex landholder and member of the Bourchier family of Halstead and Stanstead. He died during the plague year 1349 and was buried at Halstead.

The source records his broad landholding in Halstead and elsewhere; the Abels connection is through the documented Bourchier estate succession.

Research sources:
- H. L. Elliot, Some Essex Brasses, Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, in the discussion of John de Bourchier, his purchase of Abels, and the succession of his son Robert. — https://www.esah1852.org.uk/library/files/T2060000.pdf