General Notes

Doun Bardolf, marrying Beatrix, dau. and heiress of William de Warren, acquired by her the Barony of Wirmegay, in the county of Norfolk. He d. in 1209, leaving his widow Beatrix surviving, who gave 3100 marks to the king for livery of her father's lands and a reasonable dowry from the lands belonging to her husband, as also that she might not be compelled to marry again, contrary to her inclination. Doun Bardolf was s. by his son, William Bardolf. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 22, Bardolf, Barons Bardolf]