Effigy of William Phelip, Lord Bardolf (died 1441)

Coat of Arms of Sir William Phelip, Lord Bardolf, KG

William Phelip, 6th Baron Bardolf (died 6 June 1441), KG, was an English landowner, soldier, politician, and administrator from

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in Suffolk.

Origins

He was the elder son of John Phelip (died 1407), a landowner at Dennington in

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, and his second wife Juliana Erpingham (died 1414), daughter of Sir John Erpingham (died 1370) and sister of the soldier and administrator Sir

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. He had a younger brother Sir John Phelip MP and two sisters: Rose, who married John Glemham, and Catherine who married Sir Andrew Butler MP, of Waldingfield.

Career

He is described as being a valiant soldier in the wars in

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during the reign of King

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. He became Treasurer of the King's Household, and on the king's decease had the chief conduct of his funeral. He is said to have been created Lord Bardolf by

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of King Henry VI, but it does not appear that he ever had a summons to Parliament, although he bore that title. He was later appointed a

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and served as Chamberlain to King Henry VI. By

dated 23 October 1440 Sir William Phelip held the

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of Horstead Manor.

Marriage and children

He married Joan Bardolf (d.pre-1447), a daughter and co-heiress of

Thomas Bardolf, 5th Lord Bardolf Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf (22 December 1369 – 19 February 1408) was a baron in the Peerage of England, Lord of Wormegay, Norfolk, of Shelford and Stoke Bardolph in Nottinghamshire, Hallaton (Hallughton), Leicestershire, and others, ...

. She died before 1447, as in that year the executors of Joan, Lady Bardolf, sold her property of Erpingham manor, in St. Martin's at the Palace, at Norwich, to William Calthorpe. By Joan he left one daughter and sole heiress: *Elizabeth Phelip, who married

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(c.1409-1460), the first

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to be created in England, who died at the Battle of Northampton.

Acquires Bardolf barony and reversion

By his marriage to a daughter and co-heiress of the attainted

he acquired the title

Baron Bardolf Baron Bardolf or Bardolph was a title in the Peerage of England. The title was created when Sir Hugh Bardolf of Wormegay in Norfolk received a writ of summons to Parliament on 6 February 1299. After his death, the barony passed from father to s ...

. Lord Bardolf's estates had been divided between

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, the King's half-brother,

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, and the Queen, but the latter's share, on petition to the king by the husbands of both his daughters, namely Sir William de Clifford, and his wife Anne Bardolf and of Sir William Phelip and his wife Joan Bardolf, the reversion after the Queen's death was granted to the representatives of the attainted Thomas Bardolf, 5th Lord Bardolf.

Death and burial

He died on 6 June 1441 and was buried in the South Chapel of St Mary's Church,

, Suffolk, where survives his monument with recumbent effigies of himself and his wife. The ''Norfolk Visitations'' mention the will, dated 1 September 1438, of William Phelipp, Lord Bardolf, in which John Heydon, esquire, was appointed one of the executors.Bulwer, Brigadier-General, editor, ''The Visitation of Norfolk 1563'', Norwich, 1895: 210

Notes

References

* Corder, Joan, FSA., editor, ''The Visitation of Suffolk 1561'' made by William Hervy,

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, London, 1981, part 1, p. 186. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bardolf, William Phelip, 6th Baron Bardolf, Sir William Phelip, Lord Phelip, Sir William 6 Year of birth unknown