Thomas Bardolf, of Shelford, Lord of Bradewel

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1. THOMAS [II] Bardolf (-[1190/97]). It is possible that Thomas [II] Bardolf was the same person as Thomas [I] Bardolf. .... m ROHESE, daughter of RALPH Hanselyn & his wife -. Thomas & his wife had eight children:

a) HUGH [II] Bardolf . Thomas Stapleton, in his "Observations on the Great Rolls of the Exchequer of Normandy", records that Thomas Bardolf was dead in 1197 when "his barony in England was in the custody of Hugh Bardolf...his son", but he does not cite the source reference[142].

b) DOON [II] Bardolf (-before 29 Jul 1203). Thomas Stapleton, in his "Observations on the Great Rolls of the Exchequer of Normandy", records that Doon Bardolf, son of Thomas Bardolf and his wife Rohese, in 1173 commanded "the new castle of Drincourt (Neufchatel-en-Bray) when besieged by the young King Henry" with his brother Thomas, but he does not cite the source reference[143]. - see below.

c) THOMAS [III] Bardolf . Thomas Stapleton, in his "Observations on the Great Rolls of the Exchequer of Normandy", records that Doon Bardolf, son of Thomas Bardolf and his wife Rohese, in 1173 commanded "the new castle of Drincourt (Neufchatel-en-Bray) when besieged by the young King Henry" with his brother Thomas, but he does not cite the source reference[144].

d) daughter . The Red Book of the Exchequer records that "Willelmus frater regis H[enrici]" gave land at "Bradewelle" in Essex to "Thomas Bardulf" who gave three parts thereof with "tres filiabus suis in maritagio…Roberto de Sancto Remigio et Willelmo Bacun et Baldewino de Tony", and that [after the loss of Normandy] King John gave "partem Willelmi Bacun et partem Roberti de Sancto Remigio" to "Thomæ filio Bernardi" to whom he later gave "Aliciæ de Jarpenville" in marriage[145]. m ROBERT de Saint-Rémy, son of ---.

e) daughter . The Red Book of the Exchequer records that "Willelmus frater regis H[enrici]" gave land at "Bradewelle" in Essex to "Thomas Bardulf" who gave three parts thereof with "tres filiabus suis in maritagio…Roberto de Sancto Remigio et Willelmo Bacun et Baldewino de Tony", and that [after the loss of Normandy] King John gave "partem Willelmi Bacun et partem Roberti de Sancto Remigio" to "Thomæ filio Bernardi" to whom he later gave "Aliciæ de Jarpenville" in marriage[146]. m WILLIAM Bacon, son of ---.

f) daughter . The Red Book of the Exchequer records that "Willelmus frater regis H[enrici]" gave land at "Bradewelle" in Essex to "Thomas Bardulf" who gave three parts thereof with "tres filiabus suis in maritagio…Roberto de Sancto Remigio et Willelmo Bacun et Baldewino de Tony", which "Baldewinus de Thony" still held in [1210/12][147]. m BALDWIN de Tosny, son of RALPH de Tosny of Holkham, co Norfolk & his wife Ada de Chaumont ([1169]-after 1210).

g) ROHESE Bardolf (-after 1224). Thomas Stapleton, in his "Observations on the Great Rolls of the Exchequer of Normandy", states that "a fourth sister Rohese" [referring to the three daughters of Thomas Bardolf shown above] was "first the wife of Henry de la Pommeraie and secondly of John Russell" (no source cited)[148]. Hutchins’s History of the County of Dorset records that, in the third year of King John, “John Russel” paid 50 marks to the king for marrying “the sister of Doun Bardulf”[149]. Wiffen records an abstract of a suit, in the Plea Rolls for the second year of King John, between “John Russell and Rohesia his wife” and “Henry de Pomeroy” [presumably Henry [III] de Pomerai] relating to land in Devon and Cornwall[150]. m firstly as his second wife, HENRY [II] de la Pomerai, son of HENRY [I] de la Pomerai & his wife Rohese --- (-[1199/early 1201?]). m secondly ([1201]) JOHN Russell, son of --- (-1224).

h) MATILDA Bardolf . "Thomas Bardul" donated rent from “his mill of Elwadeston on the Derwent with his daughter Mathildis made a nun there by consent of his wife Rohais, mother of Mathildis, of whose inheritance was the mill” to Caen Holy Trinity by charter dated to [1170/87][151]. Nun at Caen Holy Trinity.