General Notes

Source: Burke, Dormant & Extinct Peerages, 18.
From: Encarta
The Treason of Bartholomew de Badlesmere
He was 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.