Bartholomew de Burghersh 1st Baron Burghersh

• Preferred Name: Bartholomew de Burghersh 1st Baron Burghersh^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1329 with note: Description: 1st Baron Burghersh Wikipedia
  
• Occupation: Constable of Dover Castle
  
• Occupation: Constable of the Tower of London
  
• Birth: 1287 in Burghersh, Sussex, England
  
• Occupation: Seneschal of Ponthieu
  
• Burial: AFT 3 AUG 1355 in Licoln Cathedral Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England at LATI: N3.2316 LONG: E0.5394
  
• FSID: G69L-QVB
  
• Occupation: Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports1327 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Burghersh_the_elder
  
• MilitaryService: Battle of Crécy26 AUG 1346 in Crécy, Oise, Picardie, France at LATI: N9.3482 LONG: E0.1297 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cr%C3%A9cy
  
• Death: 3 AUG 1355 in Dover Castle, Kent, England at LATI: N1.1276 LONG: E0.3254 with note: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p368.htm#i11053
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Bartholomew Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh (died 3 August 1355, Dover), called "the elder", was an English nobleman and soldier, a younger son of Robert Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh and Maud Badlesmere, sister of Bartholomew Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere. He was the father of Bartholomew Burghersh the younger.
  
  Life
  He was the second (or perhaps the third) son of Robert Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh, and succeeded to his father's title and estates on the death of his elder brother Stephen. He was the nephew on his mother's side and namesake of Bartholomew, lord Badlesmere, one of the most powerful of the barons.[1]
  He married Elizabeth, one of the three co-heiresses of Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Baron Verdun and his first wife Maud Mortimer (c.1289-18 September 1312), an alliance by which Burghersh increased his wealth and power.
  
  Lord Badlesmere was a bitter enemy of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. Burghersh took an active role (1316) in the unhappy contests of parties in Edward II's reign as an adherent of his uncle, whom in 1317 he accompanied in an expedition to Scotland. In October 1321, when Leeds Castle, Kent—the gates of which had been shut against Queen Isabella by Lady Badlesmere – surrendered to Edward, who had with unwonted spirit raised a force of thirty thousand men to avenge the insult offered to his wife. Burghersh, who was one of the garrison, was taken prisoner and incarcerated in the Tower of London. This imprisonment was probably the means of saving him from the fate of his uncle after the disastrous battle of Boroughbridge.[1]
  
  He was spared to aid in the overthrow of his unfortunate sovereign. On the landing of Isabella, on 24 September 1326, his brother Henry Burghersh, the bishop of Lincoln, hastened to join her, and with Orlton, bishop of Hereford, took the initiative in the measures which speedily led to Edward's deposition and murder.[1]
  
  The important posts of constable of Dover Castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, which had been held by his father, were given to Burghersh, and he held both offices, with but slight intermission, to his death. In the unsettled relations between England and France, which lasted through the greater part of Edward IlI's reign, the responsibility devolving on the holder of these offices, which implied the command of the chief channel of communication between the two countries, was of the highest moment, and it evidences the confidence reposed in Burghersh that he should have held them almost continuously during so important an epoch.[1]
  
  The commission, even originally in the name of Edward II, out really proceeding from the party conspiring only too successfully against him, was renewed by his son in the first year of his reign. The first royal missive to him in this capacity, contained in Rymer, is an order to have sixty does taken from the king's park of Braboume, and salted for the use of the parliament about to meet at Westminster. This is followed by an order to use his authority to put a stop to predatory incursions on the French coast. Burghersh evidently very speedily obtained the complete confidence of the young king, which he retained uninterruptedly to the end of his life.[1]
  
  His services were rewarded by large grants of land and manorial privileges, escheated to the crown, or in some other way falling to the sovereign to dispose of. The King despatched him repeatedly on diplomatic errands. In 1329, he was sent to Philip of France to explain the reasons for the delay in the rendering of his homage, and in the same year as an ambassador to the pope, to plead for pecuniary aid from the revenues of the English church, a tenth of which was granted to the king for four years. Rymer contains a series of royal orders issued to him in his capacity of constable of Dover relating to prohibitions or licenses to cross the sea when the peace of the country was threatened, and to make arrangements for the passage of the king and other distinguished persons.[1]
  
  He was entrusted with other offices calling for vigour of action and practical wisdom. In 1337, on the assumption by Edward of the title of king of France, he was made admiral of the fleet from the mouth of the Thames westward. He was also appointed Seneschal of Ponthieu, Constable of the Tower of London, and Lord Chamberlain of the Household, in which capacity his presence is often recorded at delivery the great seal. In one of Edward's grievous straits for money, he was entrusted with the pawning of the crown and other jewels. As Keeper of the king's forest to the south of the Trent in 1341 he was commissioned to provide timber for the construction of engines of war and 'hourdes' or wooden stages for the defenders of castle walls. As a good and experienced soldier he was continually in attendance on the king in his Scotch and French wars, taking part in the Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346.[1]
  
  The confidence reposed in Burghersh as a diplomatic agent was equally great. He was frequently sent as may be seen in Rymer – often in company with Bishop William Bateman of Norwich – to treat with the pope at Avignon, with Philip of Valois with the counts of Brahant and Flanders, and other leading powers, on the traces and armistices so repeatedly made and broken, and to arrange the often promised but long deferred final peace between the two contending nations. As characteristic of the age, it is curious to find that under an excess of religious zeal, Burghersh, before the breaking out of the war with France when the return was comparatively quiet, had laid aside his arms and assumed the cross. Edward, unable to dispense with the services of so valuable a helper, when starting for Gascony in 1377, petitioned the pope to release him from his vow. Two years after Crecy we find him again taking part in the French wars, and despatched to Avignon to treat with the pope for a firm and lasting peace between the two countries. The next year (1349) he accompanied the earl of Lancaster to Gascony, to suppress the rebellion there. In 1355, when Edward was leaving England for a fresh invasion of France, Burghersh was appointed one of the guardians of the realm, but died at the beginning of August of that year.[1]
  
  He was buried in the chantry of St. Catherine, which he had founded in Lincoln minster for the soul of his brother Henry, bishop of Lincoln, and their father, Robert Burghersh. Monuments to all three, with effigies of the two brothers, are still to be seen.[1]
  
  Family
  He had the following children by his wife Elizabeth de Verdun, 2nd daughter of Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Baron Verdun:
  
  - Henry de Burghersh (died November 1348), married Isabel St John, daughter of Hugh St John, 2nd Baron St John of Basing but left no issue
  - Bartholomew Burghersh the younger (died 1369), married Cecily de Weyland
  - Thomas de Burghersh
  - Joan de Burghersh, married John Mohun, 2nd Baron Mohun
  - Margaret de Burghersh
  - Maud de Burghersh, married Sir John Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Rotherfield in Oxfordshire, son of John de Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Rotherfield, by his first wife Katherine Fitzalan. Their heir was their grandson Bartholomew Grey (4th Baron Grey of Rotherfield), named after his Burghersh great grandfather. Bartholomew Grey was the son of his parents' eldest son John Grey and his wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Richard de Poynings.[2][3]
  - Elizabeth de Burghersh, who married Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare, and was the mother of four sons, including Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Earl of Kildare, and John FitzGerald, the 6th Earl. There has been some debate about whether Maurice's wife was the daughter of Bartholomew de Burghersh the elder or younger. This can be clarified as follows: The Annales Hiberniae record that in 1347, after having been with the King at the siege of Calais, which was surrendered on 4th June, Maurice Fitz Thomas, Earl of Kildare was knighted by the King, and married to the daughter of Sir Bartholomew Burghersh the elder and his wife Elizabeth de Verdun, one of the heiresses of Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Baron Verdon.[4] His wife is widely noted as being called Elizabeth. It is very clear that her father was Bartholomew Burghersh the elder. The reason we can be so certain is that her brother Henry's Inquisition Post Mortem was recorded in 1349. It records that he was the son of Bartholomew de Burghersh and that his heir was his brother Bartholomew, son of Bartholomew de Burghersh, aged 26 years and more. If this younger Bartholomew was aged 26 or more in 1349, he cannot have had a daughter who married Maurice Fitzgerald in 1347.[5][6][7]
  
  Bartholomew de Burghersh the elder was succeeded as Baron Burghersh by his son Bartholomew.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Burghersh_the_elder
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#ElizabethBurghershdied1409 as of 6/16/2016
  
  BARTHOLOMEW Burghersh (-3 Aug 1355, bur Grey Friars, London). Lord Burghersh.
  
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  ELIZABETH de Verdun ([1305/06]-1360, bur Grey Friars, London). Inquisi
  
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  Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 70-32, 70-33.Excerpt from The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, by Elias AshmoleSource on Sir Bartholomew de Burghersh

• m. 11 JUN 1320 in Sussex, England

1. Bartholomew de Burghersh 2nd Baron Burghersh, b. BEF 1329 in Burghersh, Somerset, England     d. 5 APR 1369 in Walsingham, Norfolk, England

1. Title: Bartholomew de Lord Burghersh (1304-1355), "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV5-H5Y9 : 6 March 2021), Bartholomew de Lord Burghersh, ; Burial, Lincoln, City of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, Lincoln Cathedral; citing record ID 27153732, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV5-H5Y9;
   Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27153732/bartholomew-de-lord_burghersh Sir Bartholomew de Lord Burghersh BIRTH 1304 England DEATH 3 Aug 1355 (aged 50–51) Dover, Dover District, Kent, England BURIAL Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln, City of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England MEMORIAL ID 27153732 English nobleman and soldier, a younger son of Robert de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh and Maud de Badlesmere, sister of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere. He was born some time between 1287 and 1296. He married Elizabeth de Verdun, daughter and coheir of Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Baron Verdon before 11 June 1320,
   
2. Title: Sir Bartholomew de Burghersh (1304-1355), Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
   Author: Citations [S2854] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. II, p. 425; Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, by F. L. Weis, 4th Ed., p. 15; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 122; Wallop Family, p. 550. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 169-170. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 358. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 365. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 211-212. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 306. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 124-125. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 254. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 18-19. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 24-25. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 655-656. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 10
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p368.htm#i11053;
   Note: Sir Bartholomew de Burghersh, 3rd Lord Burghersh, Seneschall of Ponthieu, Constable of Dover Castle & Warden of Cinque Ports, Constable of the Tower of London1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18 Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 M, #11053, b. before 1304, d. 3 August 1355 Father Robert de Burghersh, 1st Lord Burghersh2,4,10 d. bt 2 Jul 1306 - 8 Oct 1306 Mother Maud de Badlesmere2,4,10 d. a 2 Jan 1306 Sir Bartholomew de Burghersh, 3rd Lord Burghersh, Seneschall of Ponthieu, Constable of Dover Castle & Warden of Cinque Ports, Constable of the Tower of London was born before 1304 at of Burghersh, Sussex, England; Age 36 in 1340.2,4,10 He married Elizabeth de Verdun, daughter of Sir Theobald de Verdun, Lord Weoberley, Baron Alton, 2nd Lord Verdun, Constable & Justiciar of Ireland and Maud de Mortimer, before 11 June 1320; They had 3 sons (Henry; Bartholomew, 4th Lord Burghersh; & Thomas, a cleric) and 2 daughters (Joan, wife of Sir John, 2nd Lord Mohun; & Elizabeth, wife of Sir Maurice FitzThomas, 4th Earl of Kildare).2,3,4,6,8,9,10,12,14,16 Sir Bartholomew de Burghersh, 3rd Lord Burghersh, Seneschall of Ponthieu, Constable of Dover Castle & Warden of Cinque Ports, Constable of the Tower of London died on 3 August 1355 at Dover Castle, Dover, Kent, England; Buried at in the Angel Choir, Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire.2,4,10 Family :Elizabeth de Verdun b. c 1306, d. 1 May 1360 Children: Maud de Burghersh+19 d. 23 Jan 1387 Sir Bartholomew de Burghersh, 4th Lord Burghersh, Justiciar of Chester, Steward & Constable of Wallingford & St. Valery+2,4,10 b. c 1323, d. 5 Apr 1369 Joan de Burghersh+2,4,5,7,10,11,12,13,15,17,18 b. c 1324, d. 4 Oct 1404 Elizabeth Burghersh+3,4,9,10 b. c 1326 Henry de Burghersh20,4,6,10,14 b. c 1330, d. Nov 1348
   
3. Title: Wikipedia - Bartholomew Burghersh the elder
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Burghersh_the_elder;
   Note: Bartholomew Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh (died 3 August 1355, Dover), called "the elder", was an English nobleman and soldier, a younger son of Robert Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh and Maud Badlesmere, He married Elizabeth, one of the three co-heiresses of Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Baron Verdun and his first wife Maud Mortimer (c.1289-18 September 1312), an alliance by which Burghersh increased his wealth and power. As a good and experienced soldier he was continually in attendance on the king in his Scotch and French wars, taking part in the Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346. He was buried in the chantry of St. Catherine. Baron Burghersh (1329–1355); Justice in eyre south of the Trent (1335–1343); Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (1348–1355) & Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1327–1330