William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf and 3rd Baron Damory (21 October 1349 – 29 January 1386) of Wormegay, Norfolk, was an extensive landowner in

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. He was the son of John Bardolf, 3rd Baron Bardolf and Elizabeth Damory, suo jure 2nd Baroness Damory.Douglas Richardson. ''Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial And Medieval Families,'' Genealogical Publishing, 2005. p. 608
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. In 1372, Bardolf had livery of his lands from the Crown - See (https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol13/pp104-115#highlight-first). He was summoned to

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from 20 January 1376 to 3 September 1385, as "William Bardolf of Wormegay". He served in the French and Irish wars, latterly under

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Family

He married Agnes (d. 12 June 1403), daughter of Sir Michael de Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings, Kt., of Bures (1317–1369) (considered 2nd Baron by older laws) and his wife Joan Ruxley, widow of John de Moleyns. Coppinger wrote: "Sir Michael de Poynings, 2nd Baron, gave a thousand marks to

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in 1366 for the wardship and marriage of William, son and heir of John Lord Bardolf, to the end that he might take Agnes his daughter to wife, who by the name of 'Agnes Bardolf' is mentioned as a legatee in the will of her mother, Joane Lady Poynings dated 12th May 1369 and by that of 'Lady Bardolf my sister' in the will of Thomas Lord Poynings 28th October 1374". Lord Bardolf and his wife had two sons and two daughters: *

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* William Bardolf * Cecily Bardolf (d. 1432) married Sir Brian Stapleton, of Ingham (1379–1438),

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, a veteran of the

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, and had issue Sir Miles Stapleton. * Elizabeth Bardolf, wife of Robert Scales, 5th Lord Scales and secondly Sir Henry Percy, son of Sir Thomas Percy and Elizabeth Strabolgi. Bardolf died in 1385, aged 36, and was succeeded by his son,

. His widow remarried Sir Thomas Mortimer, illegitimate son of

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. Thomas was attainted as a traitor in 1397; he fled to

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, and died there before May 1399. Agnes died in June 1403.

References

*Burke, John and John Bernard, ''The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects'', London, 1851, vol.2, p.vii, and pedigree CXVII. *Waters, Robert E.C., B.A., Barrister of the

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, ''Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley'' &c., London, 1878, vol.1, p. 140. *Burke, Sir Bernard, C.B.,LL.D.,

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, ''The Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire'', London, 1883, p. 22) *Coppinger, W.A., M.A., etc., ''The Manors of

'', London, 1905, pp. 46–49. *Rye, Walter, (editor), ''The Visitation of Norfolk, 1563 & 1613'', made by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, Clarencieux Cooke, and John Raven, Richmond Herald, London, 1891, p. 65. *Rye, Walter, ''Norfolk Families'', part II, Norwich, 1912, p. 845. *Carr-Calthrop, Colonel Christopher William, C.B.E.,M.D., etc., ''Notes on the Families of Calthorpe & Calthrop'', etc., Third edition, London, 1933. A pedigree showing Bardolf's the descent from

, King of England and his wife Eleanor of Castile is on p. 43. *''The Visitation of Suffolk, 1561'', pp. 186 & 243. *Weis, Frederick Lewis, et al., ''The Magna Charta Sureties 1215'', 5th edition, Baltimore, 2002, p. 49. *Richardson, Douglas, ''

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Ancestry'', Baltimore, 2005, p. 40. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bardolf, William 4th Lord 1349 births 1386 deaths 4 People from King's Lynn and West Norfolk (district)