General Notes

Gunceline de Badlesmere, known first as a great rebel to Henry III, for which he was excommunicated by the archbishop of Canterbury, but subsequently, returning to his allegiance, as justice of Chester, in that office he continued until the 9th of Edward I [1280-1]. In the next year he was in the expedition into Wales, and in the 25th of the same monarch [1297-8], in that into Gascony, having previously, by the writ of 26 January in that year, been summoned to the parliament at Salisbury for the following Sunday, the feast of St. Matthew, 21 September, as Gunselm de Badlesmere. He d. four years afterwards, seised of the manor of Badlesmere, which he held in capite of the crown, as of the barony of Crevequer, by the service on one knight's fee. He m. the heiress of Ralph Fitz-Bernard, Lord of Kingsdowne, and was s. by his son, then twenty-six years of age, Bartholomew de Badlesmere. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 18-19, Badlesmere, Barons Badlesmere]
Name Suffix:<NSFX> [Justice CHESTER
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 8RCP-T6

Justiciar Of Chester