Thomas Bardolf

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• Alternate death: 15 Dec 1329

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Summoned to Parliament by writ, 26 Aug 1307 to 23 Oct 1330.

Family/Spouse: Agnes. Agnes died on 11 Dec 1357 in Ruskington, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Cecily Bardolf died on 23 Nov 1386; was buried in Austin Friars, Norwich, Norfolk, England.
2. Margaret Bardolf was born between 1310 and 1320; died before 24 Feb 1346; was buried in Greenfield Priory, Aby, Lincolnshire, England.
3. John Bardolf was born on 13 Jan 1314 in of Wormegay, Norfolk, England; died on 29 Jul 1363 in Assisi, Italy.

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• Alternate death: Sep 1304

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Active in the French and Scottish wars. A retainer of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, at Carlaverock.

Summoned to Parliament by writ 6 Feb 1299 to 2 Jun 1302.

Hugh married Isabel Aguillon before 1282. Isabel (daughter of Robert Aguillon and Joan de Ferrers) was born on 25 Mar 1258 in of Addington, Surrey, England; died before 28 May 1323. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 28 May 1325

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Served in the Welsh campaigns of 1277 and 1282.

William married Juliane de Gournay before 1254. Juliane (daughter of Hugh de Gournay and Maud) was born about 1237 in of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England; died before 6 Nov 1295. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, England

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Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex; constable of Guilford Castle, 1264; license to crenellate manor house of Perching and to ditch, 1268.

"[Sir Robert Aguillon] held a manor, afterward called Bardolf's manor, in the parish of Addington, by Grand Serjeantry, by the service of making a mess called 'gerout' for the King's table. The manor had been held at the time of Domesday by Tezelin, the King's Cook, which accounts for the origin of a culinary service. This service was performed for George III by Mr. Spencer, Lord of the manor of Addington (both manors being then united), but in 1807 the property was sold to the See of Canterbury." [Complete Peerage I:417; see also our entry for Bartholomew de Chesney d. aft 1189.]

Robert married Joan de Ferrers. Joan (daughter of William de Ferrers and Sybil Marshal) died before Oct 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef Jun 1269

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• Alternate death: Bef 5 Jan 1275
• Alternate death: Bef 5 Jan 1276

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One of the twelve appointed to draft the Provisions of Oxford.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

He was a middle-ranking baron with a long career in royal service, who supported the baronial reformers in 1258, but took the side of the king when civil war broke out in 1264.

After the death of Doun in 1205, and of her second husband, Ralph (c.1210), Beatrice married Hubert de Burgh, earl of Kent, who became guardian of her son William Bardolf following her own death in 1214. Although Bardolf had livery of his inheritance in 1215, his stepfather contrived to keep control of the honour of Wormegay until his death in 1243. Bardolf was already married to Nichola, whose parentage is unknown, when he attended Henry III on his visit to France in 1230. He commanded the expedition which captured William de Marisco and other outlaws on Lundy island in 1242, served the king in Scotland and Wales in 1244, and accompanied Queen Eleanor to France in 1254. His rewards included grants of free warren, fairs and markets in his manors, and favourable terms for the payment of his debts to the king.

In the political crisis of 1258, however, Bardolf was one of the twelve chosen by the barons to reform the realm, and on 22 June he was appointed constable of Nottingham Castle under the terms of the provisions of Oxford. By March 1259 he had been elected to the parliamentary committee of twelve, and in 1261 he used his local influence to obstruct the work of the king's sheriff in Norfolk. He was one of the Montfortians who in December 1263 agreed to the arbitration of Louis IX on the quarrel with the king, but after the rebels were defeated at Northampton in April 1264 he joined the king and was captured at the battle of Lewes that May. He received only modest grants of the lands of rebels after the battle of Evesham in August 1265.

William married Nichola. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Named "Nichola" by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Richardson's RA says that the name of the wife of William Bardolf is "not known."

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• Alternate death: 1239

Hugh married Maud. Maud died before 1273. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"[P]erh. son of William Aguillon, who [in] 1200 covenanted to deliver his son William to King John as hostage....He withdrew from allegiance to King John, but returned, lands restored 17 Sep. 1217." [Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., citation details below.]

William married Joan in 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 28 Mar 1254, Evington, Leicestershire, England

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Earl of Derby. Constable of Bolsover Castle. He died of injuries sustained when he was thrown from a chariot crossing a bridge at St. Neots in Cambridgeshire.

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So to start with, Sir William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, born 1193, helpfully had two daughters named Agnes de Ferrers.

The first Agnes de Ferrers, by Sir William's first wife Sybil Marshal, was born about 1222 and married William de Vescy (b. bef. 16 May 1205).

The second Agnes de Ferrers, by Sir William's second wife Margaret de Quincy, was born about 1252 and married Sir Robert de Muscegros (b. abt. 1252).

But that's not all!

Sir William also had two daughters named Joan de Ferrers.

Again (you're starting to get the idea by now), the first Joan de Ferrers, by Sir William's first wife Sybil Marshal, was born about 1233 and married, first Sir John de Mohun (b. abt. 1227, d. bef. 1254), and second, Sir Robert de Aguillon (b. 15 Feb 1235/36).

The second Joan de Ferrers, by Sir William's second wife Margaret de Quincy, was born in 1245 and married Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley (b. 1245).

This second pair of Joans is made even more hilarious by the existence of yet a third Joan de Ferrers, contemporary to the other two, born abt. 1256 to a completely different William de Ferrers, the one born c. 1225, of Bere Ferrers, Tavistock, Devon.

I'm sure they all got together regularly to laugh about how aggravating this would be to people seven hundred years in the future.

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As a final piece of genealogical curiosa, Eleanor de Ferrers, youngest daughter of William de Ferrers by his first wife, married Roger de Quincy, father of William de Ferrers' second wife Roger de Quincy, thus rendering Eleanor de Ferrers and Margaret de Quincy one another's stepmothers.

William married Sybil Marshal before 14 May 1219. Sybil (daughter of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare) was born about 1204; died before 1238. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1247