Cecily Bardolf

Family/Spouse: Brian Stapleton. Brian (son of Miles Stapleton and Ela Ufford) was born in 1379 in of Ingham, Norfolk and Bedale, Yorkshire, England; died on 7 Aug 1438; was buried in Ingham Priory, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Baron Ingham Miles Stapleton was born about 1408 in of Ingham, and Bedale, Yorkshire, England; died on 1 Oct 1466; was buried in Ingham Priory, England.
2. Brian Stapleton was born about 1410.

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William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf, summoned to parliament from 20 January, 1376, to 3 September, 1385, as "William Bardolf of Wormegay." His lordship m. Agnes, dau. of Sir Michael Poynings, Knt. He served in the French and Irish wars, latterly under John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and dying in 1385 (8 Richard II), was s. by his son, Thomas Bardolf de Wormegay, 5th Baron Bardolf. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 22, Bardolf, Barons Bardolf]

William married Agnes de Poynings. Agnes (daughter of 2nd Lord Poynings Michael de Poynings and Joan de Rokesley) was born about 1349 in England; died on 12 Jun 1403 in Trinity Priory, Aldgate, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Trinity Priory, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John Bardolf, 3rd Baron Bardolf de Wirmegay, as latterly styled, summoned to parliament from 22 January, 1336, to 1 June, 1363. His lordship m. Elizabeth, dau. and co-heiress of Sir Roger d'Amorie, and, as Dugdale calls her, "that great woman," his wife, Elizabeth, by whom he acquired a considerable accession of landed property. This nobleman participated in the glories of the martial reign of Edward III and attained the high dignity of Banneret. He d. in 1371, and was s. by his son, William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 22, Bardolf, Barons Bardolf]

John married Elizabeth d'Amory before 25 Dec 1327. Elizabeth (daughter of Lord d'Amory Roger d'Amorie and Elizabeth de Clare) was born in May 1318 in of Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England; died in 1362. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Michael de Poynings, 2nd baron, summoned to parliament from 25 February, 1342, to 24 February, 1368. Upon the decease of the last lord, the king, by his letters patent dated the 14th of the same month, acknowledging his great valour and eminent merits and reciting that he was slain in his service, received the homage of the present baron though then under age; and in recompense of those, his father's, sufferings, not only granted him livery of his lands but the full benefit of his marriage, taking security for the payment of his relief. This Michael, Lord Poynings, participated in the glories of the reign of Edward III, and was amongst the heroes of Cressy. His lordship m. Joane, dau. of Sir Richard Rokesley, and widow of Sir John de Molyns, Knt., and d. in 1369; he was s. by his son, Thomas de Poynings, 3rd baron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 444, Poynings, Barons Poynings]

Michael married Joan de Rokesley before 1348. Joan (daughter of Richard de Rokesley) was born about 1321 in Roxley, Kent, England; died on 16 Jun 1369 in Poynings, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sir Thomas Bardolf, K.B., as 2nd Baron Bardolf, was summoned to parliament from the 26 August, 1307, to 23 October, 1330 (4 Edw. I), about the latter of which years his lordship d. and was s. by his son, John Bardolf. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 22, Bardolf, Barons Bardolf]

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Page 706, Vol. II of Powicke's King Henry III and the Lord Edward, finds Powicke dealing with Edward's "playing with, not against, feudalism," his attitude to the conventions which underlay the law and custom of the land can be seen in such a letter as this, written in 1304 under his privy seal, three years before he died:

"The King has offered to Thomas, son and heir to Sir Hugh Bardolf a suitable marriage and he has refused the king's offer and answered that he does not wish to be married, and it seems to the king that the answer is insufficient and it may be a bad example for the king and his heirs and all to whom he wishes to do well if heirs in the king's marriage are suffered to excuse themselves and refuse the marriages offered by the king."

The chancellor, accordingly, is commanded "to be as stiff and hard toward Thomas in this business as can be without offending the law; for the king holds that the answer of Thomas to be done in despite of him and his crown". [ref.: Cal Chancery Warrants, p 188 and 241] "The lady was presumably Thomas's future wife Agnes 'by birth of the parts of Almain' said to have been the daughter of William de Grandson. cf. Complete Peerage, i. 418.

The son of this future marriage married Elizabeth Damory, granddaughter of Joan of Acre, King Edward's daughter, who married Gilbert "the Red" de Clare. It's interesting to contemplate the various genes that come down through this marriage to [our] ancestors. [BrÃssderbund Wooooorldddd Familyyyy Tree, Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Tree #6402]

Thomas married Agnes de Grandison about 1303. Agnes (daughter of William de Grandison) was born after 1285 in of Granson, Waadt, Switzerland; died on 11 Dec 1357 in Ruskington, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Agnes m. to Sir John de Northwode, and had a son and heir, Roger de Northwode, who was father of John Northwode, aged thirty in 1375. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 242, Grandison, Barons Grandison]

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Sir Roger d'Amorie was summoned to parliament as a Baron, from 20 November, 1317, to 15 May 1321. This nobleman obtained in the 13th Edward II, from the crown, confirmed by the parliament then held at York, the manors of Sandall, in Yorkshire, Halghton, in Oxfordshire, and Faukeshall, in Surrey, as likewise 100 marks per annum to be paid out of the exchequer. his lordship was engaged in the wars of Scotland and was governor at different times of Knaresborough Castle, the castle of Gloucester, and St. Briavel's Castle. He was also warden of the forest of Dene. He joined, however, in the confederacy against the Spencers. and enrolling himself under the banner of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, marched on Burton-upon-Trent, and thence to Tutbury Castle, co. Stafford, where falling ill, he d. in 1322 and was buried in the priory at Ware, in Hertfordshire. His lordship m. Elizabeth, 3rd sister and co-heir of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester (who had been previously twice a widow, 1st of John de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and 2ndly, of Theobald de Verdon, she was also niece of King Edward II). By this lady he had issue, two daus., his co heirs, viz., Elizabeth, m. to John, Lord Bardolph, by whom she had William, Lord Bardolph, whose son, Thomas, Lord Bardolph, being attainted, the Baronies of Bardolph and D'Amorie fell under the attainder and expired in 1404; and Eleanor, m. to John de Raleigh, progenitor, it is said, of the celebrated Sir Walter Raleigh.

Upon the decease of Lord D'Amorie, orders were given to seize all his lands as an enemy and rebel, and to make delivery of them to Elizabeth de Burgh, his widow. This lady d. in the 34th Edward III., leaving, Dugdale says, Elizabeth Lady Bardolph, then above thirty years of age; Nicholas calls this Elizabeth the only dau. and heir of Roger, Lord D'Amorie; as such, she of course inherited the Barony of D'Amorie, and it expired as stated above, with that of Bardolph; but Banks mentions the other dau., who if Sir Walter Raleigh sprang from her, left descendants, amongst some of whom the Barony of D'Amorie may yet be in abeyance.

One branch of this ancient house was long seated at Yatt, co. Gloucester; and another has migrated to America where, in the United States, the name and family of Amory are well known and esteemed. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 5, Amorie, Barons d'Amorie]

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Fought at Battle of Bannockburn (CP IV 42-45); Nov 20, 1317, Lord of Dammory, Bletchington (CP IV 42-45); 1318 - 1321, Keeper of Corfe Castle and Purbeck Forest (CP IV 42-45). Source [BrÃssderbund, World Familyyyyyyy Tree, Volume 3, tree #6402]]]]]

Roger married Elizabeth de Clare before 3 May 1317. Elizabeth (daughter of 7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester and Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet) was born on 16 Sep 1295 in Tewkesbury, England; died on 4 Nov 1360; was buried in Convent of Minoresses, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare, (c. 1294-1360), foundress of Clare College, Cambridge, was the youngest daughter of Gilbert Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (d. 1295) by his second marriage to Edward I's daughter Joan of Acre (1271-1307). She was married first to John Burgh (d. 1313), heir to the earldom of Ulster, to whom she bore her only son William. Following the childless death of her only brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314, she became a great heiress and was abducted in 1316, probably with her consent, by Theobald Verdon, who died later the same year and to whom she bore a posthumous daughter Isabel. A daughter Elizabeth was born by her third marriage to Roger Damory, who died in 1321. Still only in her mid-twenties, with dowers from all three husbands and with an inheritance worth at least 2,000 a year, she was an obvious target both for marriage and for molestation by the Despensers, who defrauded her of her lordship of Usk. This was recovered after their overthrow and she did not marry again, taking a vow of chastity by 1344. At her death her inheritance descended to her granddaughter Elizabeth, wife of Edward III's son Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and thence passed to the Mortimers and house of York.

Elizabeth's widowhood is illuminated by the finest set of household accounts still surviving. These reveal that she lived in stately splendour at Clare in Suffolk, where she received a stream of visitors, including her kinsfolk Edward III and Queen Philippa. 250 people received her livery in 1343, many of them members of her household, and at least 3,000 a year and sometimes more was spent by her wardrobe and household. This was not because Elizabeth was extravagant; she ran her household and estates efficiently, obtained value for her money, and took a strong line with poachers. That 93 esquires took her livery indicates her role as a great local aristocrat, particularly in East Anglia, which also emerges from her religious patronage.

As an heiress, Elizabeth held estates in her own right, not for life, and could thus give generously to the Church without first saving up wealth, as her friend Mary of St Pol had to do. Already before her husbands' deaths, she had vowed to go on pilgrimage to Santiago and the Holy Land, a promise she was unable to fulfill, and from the early 1330s was giving property to Ely cathedral priory, Tremenhall and Anglesey priories, and West Dereham Abbey. Her attention was attracted by 1336 to the notoriously under-financed University Hall at Cambridge, which she was persuaded to take over as Clare Hall, to endow (1346), and for which she devised statutes in 1359. All this involved dealing tactfully but firmly with the university and unsatisfactory fellows. Clare College was the first college deliberately planned to include undergraduates. While Elizabeth's example may have prompted Mary of St Pol to found Pembroke College, certainly it was Mary who interested Elizabeth in the Franciscans. In 1343 Elizabeth gave a church to Mary's abbey of Franciscan nuns (Minoresses) at Denney, in 1347 she founded a Franciscan friary at the pilgrimage centre of Walsingham priory, from 1355 (like Mary) she was authorised to stay overnight in Minoress houses, and in 1360 her will asked for burial at the Aldgate house of Minoresses. Her influence helps explain the foundation of the final English house of Minoresses at Bruisyard by her granddaughter and her husband Clarence with nuns from Denney. [Michael Hicks, Who's Who in Late Medieval England, Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd, London, 1991]

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Elizabeth m. 1st, John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, by whom she had issue, William, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, and left a dau. and heiress, Elizabeth de Burgh, who m. Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, K.G., and had an only dau. and heiress, Philippa Plantagenet, who m. Edward Mortimer, Earl of March. Elizabeth, widow of John de Burgh, m. 2ndly, Theobald de Verdon, and 3rdly, Roger d'Amory; by the last she had two daus., Elizabeth, m. to John, Lord Bardolph, and Eleanor, m. to John de Raleigh. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 120, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

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Elizabeth de Clare, the youngest sister of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, m. John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, and through this alliance the honour of Clare came into the possession of the de Burghs. The heiress of Clare left a son, William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 434, Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence]

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Thomas de Poynings was summoned to parliament as a Baron, 23 April, 1337. His lordship m. Agnes de Rokesley, one of the co-heirs of John, son of Bartholomew de Cryol, and was slain in the great sea fight with the French at Sluse in 1339. He was s. by his elder son, Michael de Poynings, 2nd baron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 444, Poynings, Baron St. John, of Basing]

Thomas married Agnes de Rokesley in 1317. Agnes (daughter of Richard de Rokesley and Joan de Criol) was born in 1299 in Westwood, Preston, Kent, England; died before 22 Dec 1346 in Poynings, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Agnes was one of the co-heirs of John, son of Bartholomew de Cryol. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 444, Poynings, Baron St. John, of Basing]

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It's quite possible that Sir Richard de Rokesley (b. ca. 1295) is the son of Richard de Rokesley (b. ca. 1270), father of Agnes who m. Thomas de Poynings -- their ages are certainly right -- but -- if this is the case, then Joan, who m. Michael de Poynings married the son of her aunt, i.e., her nephew.