General Notes

Held Stopham under Earl Roger, A.D. 1086 (Domesday Survey), which he sublet to Ralph his brother.

Named R. De Butuileyn in the Battle Abbey Roll (Foxe).

Peter Barttlet of Australia says: "the elder son of Adam de Berthelot was named Robertus de Bartelot and is thus recorded in two 11th century documents that help to explain why, upon the death of his father, Robert gave up his birthright in favour of a younger brother, Radolphus (Ralph) who promptly adopted the name by which the land grant the family then occupied was known.....and with it a somewhat different coat-of-arms, thus helping researchers to distinguish between the two brothers and their descendants. Robert chose a more adventurous and rewarding life with the de Brionne family, accepting his father's responsibilities as Earl Guido de Brionne's (of Brionne Castle, Liseux) trusted Esquire, but which Adam could no longer fulfill as a grantee of land owing fealty to the Lords of Arundel Castle. What is important is the presence of both Bartelot name and c.o.a, in Dorset so early after Robert's decision not to accept Stopham....his birthright!"



7th in decent from Prince Berthelot, nephew to the Emperor Charlemagne. In A.D. 1066, he came to England as a Squire to Brian de Stopham and fought in the battle of Hastings in the Conqueror's Army. Battle Abbey Roll names him Berteulay i.e. "the French Bertolet". He was granted Stopham Manor in Sussex Co., England. Adam was buried there c. 1086. The Curia Regis Roll quotes the spelling as "Bertelot".

Peter Bartlett from Australia says: "The English progenitor of the line from which we both descent was named "Adam de Berthelot" and came from the Norman District of Liseux. Due to the difficulities experienced by Anglo-Saxon scribes in interpreting sounds they heard from French mouths, that name became, firstly written as "Adam de Bertuilay" and then "de Bartelot".....although in some particular places in England it became corrected to the original. In each form, the name appears on some of England's earliest historical records as well as elsewhere."

PEDIGREE OF BARTTELOT in posession of Sir Walter B. Bartlett of England.

Planche's COMPANIONS OF THE CONQUEROR, Vol ii, P 213

Stopham is a small village in West Sussex, on the South Coast of England. It is 6 miles SW of Chichester and 15 miles west of Brighton. There is a standing bridge on that part of the Arundel River named "Stopham Bridge", built in 1423 just outside of Fittleworth, W. Sussex, England.