General Notes

Thomas Bardolf, who, upon the scutage being levied of such barons as didnot attend King Henry II into Ireland in the 18th of that monarch's reign[1172] nor contribute men or money to that service, paid £25 for thescutage of those knights' fees which formerly belonged to Ralph Hanselyn,Baron of Schelford, in the county of Nottingham, whose dau. and heiress,Rose, he had married. This Thomas obtained from William, brother of KingHenry II, the Lordship of Bradewell to hold to himself and his heirs bythe service of one knight's fee; three parts of which he bestowed uponhis three daus., viz., -----, wife of Robert de St. Remigio; -----, wifeof William Bacon; and -----, wife of Baldwin de Thoni. Thomas Bardolf wass. by his son, Doun Bardolf. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant,Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p.22, Bardolf, Barons Bardolf]

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There existed none the less a Bardol fee in the Norman Pays de Caux,identified by Mr Stapleton with the church of Bernonville near Gisors,which Thomas Bardol, with Rose Alselyn his wife, bestowed on the Abbey ofBec-Herlouin. He was the son of William Bardol, Sheriff of Norfolk andSuffolk for five consecutive years under Henry II, with whom Dugdale'spedigree begins. No doubt William must have been a landowner in either orboth of these counties; but it is upon Thomas' brilliant marriage thatthe first foundation of their future importance rests.  Rose had broughthim twenty-five knight's fees, which had descended to her from Goisfridd'Alselin, one of the Barons of Domesday, whose name became in Englishspeech Hauselyn; having been "disfigured by English genealogists, whoconverted its first syllable, Al, into hau." - Recherches su le Domesday.In like manner, Bardol or Bardul, grew into Bardolf or Bardolph.

Thomas and Rose had two sons: 1. Dodo, or Doon; 2. Thomas, castellan ofVerneuil in 1179 and 1180; "and perhaps two others , for Dodo witnessesRichard de la Haie's grant to Blanchelande Abbey with Hugh Bardolf andHamelinus Bardolf. In 1168 Hugh held two knights fees, and Doon I ofRichard de la Haie's fief in Lincoln." - A S Ellis. Dugdale, however, whogive a long acount of this Sir Hugh, believes him to have been Thomas'younger brother rather than his son. [Battle Abbey Roll II:58]