• General Notes

  [SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
  
  Hanged, drawn & quartered.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  REF "A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares,
  1217-1314"
  by Michael Altschul, Johns Hopkins Press, 1965, p. 173: "Less
  than a year later, the Despensers themselves returned in
  triumph.  The king managed to win over to his side many of
  Lancaster's allies, and fighting again broke out, culminating
  in the royalist victory at Boroughbridge on March 22, 1322.
  Lancaster and his chief supporters, including Roger Damory and
  Bartholomew de Badlesmere, were executed, while D'Audley and
  the Mortimers were imprisoned."
  
  Bartholomew de Badlesmere in the life time of his father
  received command to attend the king at Portsmouth, upon the 1st
  day of September, with horse and arms to embark with him for
  Gascony, and in the year that he succeeded to his paternal
  property was in the wars of Scotland. He was afterwards in the
  retinue of Robert de Clifford in the Welsh wars, and in the
  first year of King Edward I. was appointed the Governor of the
  castle of Bristol. In two years afterwards he was summoned to
  parliament as Badlesmere, and had a grant from the king,
  through the special influence of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of
  Gloucester & Hereford, and Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, of
  the castle and manor of Chelham, in Kent, for his own and his
  wife's life, which castle had been possessed by Alexander de
  Baliol in the right of his wife Isabel, and ought to have been
  escheated to the crown on the decease of the said Alexander, by
  reason of the felony of John de .Straboli, Earl of Athol
  (Isabel's son and heir), who was hanged. In the 5th year of
  King Edward II., Lord Badlesmere was constituted Governor of
  the castle of Ledes, and obtained at the same time grants of
  divers extensive manors. In the next year but one, he was
  deputed , with Otto de Grandison and others, ambassador to the
  court of Rome, and the next year, upon the death of Robert de
  Clifford, he obtained a grant of the custody of the castle of
  Skyton in Yorkshire, as of all other castles in that county and
  Westmoreland, whereof the said Robert died possessed, to hold
  during the minority of Roger de Clifford, his son and heir.  He
  was further indebted to the crown for numerous charters for
  fairs throughout his extensive manors; and he held the high
  office of steward of the household for a great number of years;
  but notwithstanding his thus basking in the sunshine of royal
  favor, his allegiance was not trustworthy, for joining the
  banner of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and other discontented
  nobles of that period, he went into Kent without the king's
  permission; where, being well received, he put himself at the
  head of some soldiers from his castle at Ledes, and thence
  proceeded to Canterbury, with 19 knights, having linen jackets
  under their surcoats, all his esquires being in plate armor,
  and thus repaired to the
  shrine of St. Thomas, to the amazement of the good citizens.
  While Lord
  Badlesmere remained at Canterbury, John de Crumwell and his
  wife sought his
  lordship's aid, and , pledging himself to afford it, he
  hastened to Oxford, where the barons of his party had been then
  assembled. In the meantime the King being apprised of the
  baron's proceedings, dispatched the Queen to Ledes, and upon
  admission being denied her, the castle was regularly invested
  by Adomere de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and John de Britannia,
  Earl of
  Richmond, to whom it eventually surrendered, when Lord
  Badlesmere's wife,
  young son, and daughters, all falling into the hands of the
  besiegers, were sent prisoners to the Tower of London. The
  baron and his accomplices afterwards were pursued by Edmund,
  Earl of Kent, and John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, and being
  defeated and taken prisoners at the battle of Boroughbridge,
  his lordship was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Canterbury,
  and his head set upon a pole at Burgate. At the time of the
  baron's execution upwards of ninety lords, knights, and others
  concerned in the same insurrection, suffered a similar fate in
  various parts of the kingdom. He married Margaret Clare, one of
  the daughters and co-heiresses of Thomas de Clare, 3rd son of
  Thomas de Clare, 2nd son of Richard de Clare, Earl of
  Gloucester. His widow continued as a prisoner in the Tower,
  until, through the influence of William Roos, Lord Roos, of
  Hamlake, and others, she obtained her freedom. Whereupon she
  went to the nunnery of Minoresses, outside of  Adgate, in the
  suburbs of London. She had 2-shillings a day for her
  maintenance, to be paid by the sheriff of Essex; she
  subsequently,
  however, obtained a large proportion of the deceased lords'
  manors as her
  dowry.

Details of Bartholomew de Badlesmere V's family with Margaret de Clare