Sir Bartholomew Badlesmere

Steward of Edward II's household from October 1319 to June 1321.

Events

Date of Birth: about 1275.

This estimated date is given by Maddicott (ODNB).

Date of Death: 14 April 1322.

Place of Death: Canterbury.

Bartholomew was hanged and decapitated for having fought with the rebels at Boroughbridge The date and place are given by Maddicott (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Guncelin of Badlesmere (died 1301).

This relationship is given by Maddicott (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:371-372). Guncelin was Justice of Chester. He was of Badlesmere, Kent. The relationship is recorded in Guncelin’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM Volume 4: Edward I, no. 38). Hasted (Volume 6, sub Badlesmere) states that Guncelin’s father was named Bartholomew.

Mother: unknown.

The Complete Peerage (1:372) states that she was Joan, daughter of Ralph fitz Bernard of Kingsdown, Kent (aunt and, in her issue, heir to Thomas [Lord] Fitz Bernard), but in 5:403,it is stated that Guncelin’s wife is unknown. Maddicott (ODNB) states that Bartholomew’s mother is unknown.

Spouse: Margaret de Clare (about 1286 - 1333).

This relationship is given by Maddicott (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:372).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Margery (born about 1306) married William de Ros.

Matilda (about 1310 - 1336) married (1) Robert fitz Payn; married (2) John de Vere, earl of Oxford.

Elizabeth (born about 1313) married (1) Edmund Mortimer; married (2) William de Bohun.

Giles (18 October 1314 - 1338) married Elizabeth, daughter of William Montagu, 1st earl of Salisbury.

Margaret (born about 1315) married John Tiptoft.

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume IV, Edward I (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1913).

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Hasted, Edward. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 6 (1798).

Maddicott, “Badlesmere, Sir Bartholomew (c. 1275-1322)”, rev. in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).