2nd Lord Bardolf Thomas II Bardolf

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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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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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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]

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Thomas Bardolf de Wormegay, 5th Baron Bardolf, summoned to parliament from 12 September, 1390, to 22 August, 1404. This nobleman, joining Henry, Earl of Northumberland, Thomas, earl marshal and Nottingham, and Richard Scrope, archbishop of York in their rebellion, temp Henry IV (for which the earl marshal and archbishop were beheaded at York), he was forced, with the Earl of Northumberland, to fly to France; but those lords returning in about three years afterwards, and, again raising the standard of insurrection in Yorkshire, they were attacked by the sheriff and the power of the county at Bramham Moor, where, sustaining a total defeat, the earl fell in the field, and Lord Bardolf died soon afterwards of his wounds. His lordship had married Avicia, dau. of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, and left two daus., viz., Anne, m. 1st to Sir William Clifford, Knt., and 2ndly to Reginald, Lord Cobham; Joane, m. to Sir William Phelip, K.G. (son of Sir John Phelip, Knt. of Donynton, Suffolk), a valiant solder in the French wars of King Henry V, to which monarch he was treasurer of the household, and, at his decease, had the chief direction of his funeral. Sir William is said to have been raised to the peerage by letters patent, as Lord Bardolf, in the reign of Henry VI, but he was never summoned to parliament. By Joane Bardolf, he left an only dau. and heiress, Elizabeth, who m. John, Viscount Beaumont.

Thomas, the 5th and unfortunate Lord Bardolf dying thus and being afterwards attainted, his Barony and large possessions became forfeited. The estates were divided between Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, the king's brother, Sir George Dunbar, Knt., and the queen; but the latter proportion, upon the petition of Sir William Clifford and his wife, and Sir William Phelip and his wife, to the king, was granted in reversion, after the queen's decease, to those representatives of the attainted nobleman. Dugdale states "that Lord Bardolf's remains were quartered, and the quarters disposed of by being set upon the gates of London, York, Lenne, and Shrewsbury, while the head was placed upon one of the gates of Lincoln; his widow obtained permission, however, in a short time to remove and bury them." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 22, Bardolf, Barons Bardolf]

Family/Spouse: Avicia de Cromwell. Avicia was born about 1375 in of Tatshall, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]