1st Baron Badlesmere Bartholomew De Badlesmere

1275 - 1322  (46 years)

• Name	Bartholomew De Badlesmere
  Title	1st Baron Badlesmere
  Christening	1275	Kentshire, England
  Birth	18 Aug 1275	Kentshire, England
  Gender	Male
  FSID	LD9R-WJ3
  Burial	Apr 1322	Kentshire, England
  Death	14 Apr 1322	Kentshire, England
  Person ID	I7669	footsteps | Ancestors, LucyHarrison
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	Gunselin De Badlesmere,   b. 1232, Kentshire, England d. 1301, Kentshire, England (Age 69 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margaret Fitzbernard,   b. Abt 1234, Kentshire, England d. 1310, Kentshire, England (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F1170	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Baroness Badlesmere Margaret De Clare,   b. Abt 1287, Suffolkshire, England d. 1346, London, England (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1304	Kentshire, England
  Children	+ 1. Margery Badlesmere,   b. 3 Dec 1304, Kentshire, England d. 18 Oct 1363, Yorkshire, England (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 2. Maud de Badlesmere,   b. Abt 1310, Kentshire, England d. 24 May 1366, Essex, England (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 3. Countess Of Northampton Elizabeth De Badlesmere,   b. 1313, Kentshire, England d. 8 Jun 1356, Berkshire, England (Age 43 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 4. Margaret De Badlesmere,   b. 1315, Kentshire, England d. Bef 4 Dec 1347, England (Age < 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1247	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He fought in the English army both in France and Scotland during the la t e r y e a rs of the reign of Edward I. In 1307 he became governor of Brist o l C a s t le, and afterwards Edward II appointed him steward of his househ o l d ; b u t these marks of favor did not prevent him from making a compact w i t h s o m e other noblemen to gain supreme influence in the royal council. A l t h o u gh very hostile to Earl Thomas of Lancaster, Badlesmere helped to m a k e p e a ce between the king and the earl in 1318, and was a member of th e m i d d l e party which detested alike Edwards minions, like the Despenser s, a n d h i s v iolent enemies like Lancaster. The kings conduct, however, d re w h i m t o t he side of the earl, and he had already joined Edwards enem i es w h e n , in October 1321, his wife, Margaret de Clare, refused to admi t Q u e e n I sabella to her husbands castle at Leeds in Kent. The king cap tu r e d t h e castle, seized and imprisoned Lady Badlesmere, and civil war b e g a n . A fter the defeat of Lancaster at Boroughbridge, Badlesmere was ta k e n a n d h anged at Canterbury on the 14th of April 1322.