Giles de Badlesmere

Giles de Badlesmere (1314-1338)	Bartholomew de Badlesmere (1275-1322)	Guncelin de Badlesmere (c1236-1301)
		Guncelin de Badlesmere (c1236-1301)


	Margaret de Clare (c1275-?)

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Source: Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Second Edition.

[Original PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/The_history_and_topographical_survey_of_the_county_of_Kent_%28IA_b28772155_0008%29.pdf]

The manor of Whitstaple, called formerly, as above mentioned, Northwood, alias Whistaple, together with the hundred and the church of Whitstaple appendant, seems to have been in very early times part of the possessions of the same owners as the barony of Chilham, and to have continued in like manner in the descendants of Fulbert de Dover.

In King Henry III’s time [1216-1272] I find it styled the manor of Northwood, alias Whitstaple, with the church of Northwood, appertaining to the barony of Chilham. And in the next reign of King Edward I, the manor of Whitstaple, which with its appendages of Northwood and Grafton, in this parish, had descended down in like manner as Chilham, to John, Earl of Athol.

He, being attainted and his lands confiscated, this manor, with its appurtenances, remained in the crown until Edward II, in his 5th year [1312], granted it to Bartholomew de Badlesmere, the rich Lord Badlesmere of Leeds. He, in the 9th year of that reign [1316], had a grant of free warren within this manor. But in the 15th year of that reign [1322], having joined the discontented barons, his lands were all seized, and the king granted this manor to David de Strabolgie, son of John, Earl of Athol, before mentioned, for his eminent services—for his life.

He had licence in the 18th year of that reign [1325] to impark his wood of Northwood, in his manor of Northwood, and died in the 1st year of Edward III [1327], upon which it reverted again to the crown. It was granted next year [1328] to Giles de Badlesmere, son of Bartholomew before mentioned, who had all his lands and manors restored to him. He died s.p. [sine prole, without issue] in the 12th year of that reign [1349], possessed of this manor, leaving his four sisters his coheirs.

Upon the division of their inheritance, >>> this manor of Whitstaple, alias Northwood, was allotted to Maud, widow of Roger FitzPain, and then the wife of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford. <<< His grandson Robert, Earl of Oxford, created Marquis of Dublin and Duke of Ireland, was by Parliament, in the 11th year of King Richard II, banished, and his estates confiscated, among which was this manor with the church appendant.

It seems to have been granted soon afterwards to Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, the king’s uncle, who, in the 17th year of that reign, settled this manor, as well as the church—being then held in capite with the king’s licence—on his newly-founded college of Fleshy, in Essex, to hold in free, pure, and perpetual alms. It continued with the college till the dissolution of it in the 27th year of King Henry VIII, when it came into the king’s hands as not having the clear revenue of two hundred pounds per annum…

!Note: So between Robert, earl of Oxford, and Thomas, duke of Gloucester, Richard Hawkins sold diverse lands in Whitstable to John Bedell. I believe these are the same place, but probably a different feoffment level.

!Source: Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_de_Badlesmere,_2nd_Baron_Badlesmere

The son and heir of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere and his wife Margaret de Clare, he was born at Hambleton, Rutland.[2][3]

Giles' father was executed in April 1322 for having participated in the Earl of Lancaster's rebellion against King Edward II of England. After Bartholomew had joined the rebels, his wife and their children were arrested and sent to the Tower of London because she refused to admit the Queen consort Isabella to Leeds Castle which had been granted to Bartholomew. His title and estates were attainted, therefore Giles did not immediately succeed to the barony on his father's death.

In November 1328, Giles obtained a reversal of the attainder and succeeded by writ of summons as the 2nd Baron Badlesmere. However, when he died in June 1338, the barony of Badlesmere fell into abeyance as his marriage to Elizabeth Montagu had not produced children.

Records of numerous inquisitions post mortem that were held in the summer of 1338 demonstrate that Giles' extensive possessions were to be found in London, Kent and 13 other counties as well as Ireland.[4] Apart from the assets reserved to his widow, Giles' estates went to his four sisters as coheirs.[5] The evidence given at each hearing rested on local knowledge and there were some inconsistencies about the names of the sisters and their precise ages. However, taken as a whole, it is clear from the inquisition records that the names of the sisters were as follows, listed in descending order of age:

Margery de Badlesmere, married William de Ros, 2nd Baron de Ros, then Thomas de Arundel

Elizabeth de Badlesmere, married Sir Edmund Mortimer, then William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton

"Heralds' Roll, Nos 201-250". Archived from the original on 15 January 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2014.

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1st series, Vol. 7, No. 691 summarises testimonies by 12 individuals at a hearing held on 14 November 1335 as proof of age for Giles de Badlesmere. The evidence given on that occasion includes statements that Giles was born on 18 October 1314 in the manor of Hambleton, Rutland and was christened at the parish church of St Andrew there.

Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/E3/CP40no357/bCP40no357dorses/IMG_7627.htm ; 6th entry, where his former wife, Elizabeth is suing dower from the four daughters, and their husbands

Leigh Rayment's Peerage pageLeigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]

Rev. Charles J Robinson, A History of the mansions and manors of Herefordshire reprint Logaston Press 2001. pp. 216, 250 and passim.

Giles de Badlesmere

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