1st Baron Badlesmere Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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    English nobleman, was the son and heir of Gunselm de Badlesmere (died 1301), and fought in the English army both in France and Scotland during the later years of the reign of Edward I of England.
    In 1307 he became governor of Bristol Castle. Edward II appointed him steward of his household. Badlesmere made a compact with some other noblemen to gain supreme influence in the royal council. Although very hostile to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, Badlesmere helped to make peace between the king and the earl in 1318, and was a member of the middle party which detested alike Edward's minions, like the Despensers, and his violent enemies like Lancaster.
    The king's conduct, however, drew him to the side of the earl, and he had already joined Edward's enemies when, in October 1321, his wife, Margaret de Clare, refused to admit Queen Isabella to her husband's castle at Leeds in Kent. The king assaulted and captured the castle, seized and imprisoned Lady Badlesmere, and civil war began.
    After the defeat of the Earl of Lancaster at the Battle of Boroughbridge, Badlesmere was captured and hanged at Canterbury on April 14, 1322. His son and heir, Giles, died without children in 1338.
    (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
    
    BARTHOLOMEW DE BADLESMERE who was 26 years old at his father's death; 3 Edward II obtained a grant of the castle and manor of Chilham (Chetham?) in Kent; also had a grant of other manors and the castle of Ledes in Kent; summoned to Parliament as a baron 3 to 14 Edward II; joined the insurrection of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and, upon the defeat of the latter at Borough Bridge, was taken prisoner and hanged at Canterbury 1321; married Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Thomas, second son of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and Julian, daughter of Sir Maurice FitzMaurice, Lord Justice of Ireland (Complete Peer.). His wife was widow of Gilbert de Umfreville.
    (Fenwick Allied Ancestry, page 152)