General Notes

Note:
Gunceline de Badlesmere, known first as a great rebel to He
nry III, for which he was excommunicated by the archbisho
p of Canterbury, but subsequently, returning to his allegia
nce, as justice of Chester, in that office he continued unt
il the 9th of Edward I [1280-1]. In the next year he was i
n the expedition into Wales, and in the 25th of the same mo
narch [1297-8], in that into Gascony, having previously, b
y the writ of 26 January in that year, been summoned to th
e parliament at Salisbury for the following Sunday, the fea
st of St. Matthew, 21 September, as Gunselm de Badlesmere
. He d. four years afterwards, seised of the manor of Badle
smere, which he held in capite of the crown, as of the baro
ny of Crevequer, by the service on one knight's fee. He m
. the heiress of Ralph Fitz-Bernard, Lord of Kingsdowne, an
d was s. by his son, then twenty-six years of age, Bartholo
mew de Badlesmere. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Fo
rfeited, and Extinct Peerages,Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London
, 1883, p. 18-19, Badlesmere, Barons Badlesmere]