Cause of Death:<CAUS> Hanged, drawn & quartered.
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REF "A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 121
7-1314"
by Michael Altschul, Johns Hopkins Press, 1965, p. 173: "Le
ss than a year later, the Despensers themselves returned i
n triumph. The king managed to win over to his side many o
f Lancaster's allies, and fighting again broke out, culmina
ting in the royalist victory at Boroughbridge on March 22
, 1322. Lancaster and his chief supporters, including Roge
r Damory and Bartholomew de Badlesmere, were executed, whil
e D'Audley and the Mortimers were imprisoned."
Bartholomew de Badlesmere in the life time of his father re
ceived command to attend the king at Portsmouth, upon the 1
st day of September, with horse and arms to embark with hi
m for Gascony, and in the year that he succeeded to his pat
ernal property was in the wars of Scotland. He was afterwar
ds in the retinue of Robert de Clifford in the Welsh wars
, and in the first year of King Edward I. was appointed th
e Governor of the castle of Bristol. In two years afterward
s he was summoned to parliament as Badlesmere, and had a gr
ant from the king, through the special influence of Gilber
t de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hereford, and Henry de Lac
y, Earl of Lincoln, of the castle and manor of Chelham, i
n Kent, for his own and his wife's life, which castle had b
een possessed by Alexander de Baliol in the right of his wi
fe Isabel, and ought to have been escheated to the crown o
n the decease of the said Alexander, by reason of the felon
y of John de .Straboli, Earl of Athol (Isabel's son and hei
r), who was hanged. In the 5th year of King Edward II., Lor
d Badlesmere was constituted Governor of the castle of Lede
s, and obtained at the same time grants of divers extensiv
e manors. In the next year but one, he was deputed , with O
tto de Grandison and others, ambassador to the court of Rom
e, and the next year, upon the death of Robert de Clifford
, he obtained a grant of the custody of the castle of Skyto
n in Yorkshire, as of all other castles in that county an
d Westmoreland, whereof the said Robert died possessed, t
o hold during the minority of Roger de Clifford, his son an
d heir. He was further indebted to the crown for numerou
s charters for fairs throughout his extensive manors; and h
e held the high office of steward of the household for a gr
eat number of years; but notwithstanding his thus basking i
n the sunshine of royal favor, his allegiance was not trust
worthy, for joining the banner of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster
, and other discontented nobles of that period, he went int
o Kent without the king's permission; where, being well rec
eived, he put himself at the head of some soldiers from hi
s castle at Ledes, and thence proceeded to Canterbury, wit
h 19 knights, having linen jackets under their surcoats, al
l his esquires being in plate armor, and thus repaired to t
he
shrine of St. Thomas, to the amazement of the good citizens
. While Lord
Badlesmere remained at Canterbury, John de Crumwell and hi
s wife sought his
lordship's aid, and , pledging himself to afford it, he has
tened to Oxford, where the barons of his party had been the
n assembled. In the meantime the King being apprised of th
e baron's proceedings, dispatched the Queen to Ledes, and u
pon admission being denied her, the castle was regularly in
vested by Adomere de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and John d
e Britannia, Earl of
Richmond, to whom it eventually surrendered, when Lord Badl
esmere's wife,
young son, and daughters, all falling into the hands of th
e besiegers, were sent prisoners to the Tower of London. Th
e baron and his accomplices afterwards were pursued by Edmu
nd, Earl of Kent, and John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, and b
eing defeated and taken prisoners at the battle of Boroughb
ridge, his lordship was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Can
terbury, and his head set upon a pole at B