4th Lord Bardolf William III Bardolf

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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]

Family/Spouse: 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]

1. 5th Lord Bardolf Thomas III Bardolf was born about 1375 in of Wormegay, Norfolk, England; died on 19 Feb 1406/07 in Battle of Bramham Moor, Yorkshire, England.
2. Cecily Bardolf was born about 1379 in Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, England; died on 29 Sep 1432 in Ingham Priory, England; was buried in Ingham Priory, England.

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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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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Gilbert "The Red Earl" de Clare

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Gilbert de Clare, surnamed the Red, 7th Earl of Hertford and 3rd Earl of Gloucester, who, by the king's procurement, m. in 1257, Alice, dau. of Guy, Earl of Angouleme, and niece of the king of France, which monarch bestowed upon the lady a marriage portion of 5,000 marks. This noble man, who, like his predecessors, was zealous in the cause of the barons, proceeded to London immediately after the defeat sustained by the insurrectionary lords at Northampton (48th Henry III) [1264], in order to rouse the citizens, which, having effected, he received the honor of knighthood from Montfort, Earl of Leicester, at the head of the army at Lewes; of which army, his lordship, with John Fitz-John and William de Montchensi, commanded the second brigade, and having mainly contributed to the victory in which the king and prince became prisoners, while the whole power of the realm fell into the hands of the victors, the earl procured a grant under the great seal of all the lands and possessions lying in England of John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, one of the most faithful adherents of the king, excepting the castles of Riegate and Lewes, to hold during the pleasure of the crown, and he soon after, with some of the principal barons, extorted from the captive monarch a commission authorizing Stephen, then bishop of Chichester, Simon Montford, Earl of Leicester, and himself, to nominate nine persons of "the most faithful, prudent, and most studious of the public weal," as well prelates as others, to manage all things according to the laws and customs of the realm until the consultations at Lewes should terminate. Being jealous, however, of the power of Leicester, the earl soon after abandoned the baronial cause and, having assisted in procuring the liberty of the king and prince, commanded the second brigade of the royal arm at the battle of Evesham, which restored the kingly power to its former luster. In reward of these eminent services he received a full pardon for himself and his brother Thomas of all prior treasons, and the custody of the castle of Bergavenny during the minority of Maud, wife of Humphrey de Bohun. His lordship veered again though in his allegiance and he does not appear to have been sincerely reconciled to the royal cause until 1270, in which year, demanding from Prince Edward repayment of the expenses he had incurred at the battle of Evesham, with livery of all the castles and lands which his ancestors had possessed and, those demands having been complied with, he thenceforward became a good and loyal subject of the crown. Upon the death of King Henry, the Earl of Hertford and Gloucester was one of the lords who met at the New Temple in London to proclaim Prince Edward, then in the Holy Land, successor to the crown, and so soon as the new monarch returned to England, his lordship was the first to entertain him and his whole retinue with great magnificence for several days at his castle of Tonebruge. In the 13th Edward I [1285], his lordship divorced his wife Alice, the French princess, and in consideration of her illustrious birth, granted for her support during her life, six extensive manors and parks, and he m. in 1289, Joan of Acre, dau. of King Edward I, upon which occasion he gave up the inheritance of his castles and manors, as well in England as in Wales , to his royal father-in-law, to dispose of as he might think proper; which manors, and c., were entailed by the king upon the earl's issue by the said Joane, and in default, upon her heirs and assigns, should she survive the lordship. By this lady he had issue, Gilbert, his successor, Alianore, Margaret, and Elizabeth. His lordship d. in 1295, and the Countess Joan surviving, m. a "plain esquire," called Ralph de Monthermer, clandestinely, without the king, her father's, knowledge, but to which alliance he was reconciled through the intercession of Anthony Beke, the celebrated bishop of Durham, and became eventually much attached to his now son-in-law. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, pp. 119-120, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

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Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester (1243-1295), 8th earl of Gloucester and 9th earl of Clare, was born at Christchurch, Hampshire, on Sept. 2, 1243. He married Alice of Angouleme, niece of king Henry III, succeeded his father in July 1262, and joined the baronial party led by Simon de Montfort. With Simon, Gloucester was at the battle of Lewes in May 1264, when the king himself surrendered to him, and after this victory he was one of the three persons selected to nominate a council. Soon, however, he quarreled with Simon. Leaving London for his lands on the Welsh border he met Prince Edward, afterward king Edward I, at Ludlow, just after his escape from captivity; and contributed largely to the prince's victory at Evesham in August 1265. But this alliance was as transitory as the one with Leicester, Gloucester championed the barons who had surrendered at Kenilworth in November and December 1266, and after putting his demands before the king, secured possession of London (April 1267). The earl quickly made his peace with Henry III and with Prince Edward. Under Edward I he spent several years in fighting in Wales, or on the Welsh border; in 1289 when the barons were asked for a subsidy he replied on their behalf that they would grant nothing until they saw the king in person (nihi prius personaliter viderent in Anglia faciem regis), and in 291 he was fined and imprisoned on account of levying private war on Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford. Having divorced his wife Alice, he married in 1290 Edward's daughter Joan, or Johanna (d. 1307). The "Red Earl," as he is sometimes called, died at Monmouth on Dec. 7, 1295, leaving, in addition to three daughters, a son, Gilbert, earl of Gloucester, killed at Bannockburn. [Encyclopedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 10, p. 434, GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE, EARL OF.]

Ninth Earl Clare

Gilbert married Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet on 30 Apr 1290 in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. Joan (daughter of Edward "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England and Eleanor "of Castile", Countess de Ponthieu) was born in 1272 in Acre, Palestine; died on 23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Suffolk, England; was buried on 26 Apr 1307 in Priory Church of the Austin Friars, Clare, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]