William 4th Baron Bardolf

William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf, of Wormegay, Norfolk (21 October 1349 – 29 January 1386) was an extensive landowner in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Suffolk and Surrey. In 1382 Bardolf had livery of his lands from the Crown. He was a descendant of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey.

He was summoned to parliament from 20 January 1376 to 3 September 1385, as "William Bardolf of Wormegay". He served in the French and Irish wars, latterly under John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.

He married Agnes (d. 12 June 1403), daughter of Sir Michael 2nd Baron Poynings, Kt., of Bures (1317-1369). Coppinger wrote: "Sir Michael de Poynings, 2nd Baron, gave a thousand marks to Queen Philippa in 1366 for the wardship and marriage of William, son and heir of John Lord Bardolf, to the end that he might take Agnes his daughter to wife, who by the name of 'Agnes Bardolf' is mentioned as a legatee in the will of her mother, Joane Lady Poynings dated 12th May 1369 and by that of 'Lady Bardolf my sister' in the will of Thomas Lord Poynings 28th October 1374."

Bardolf died in 1385, aged 36, and was succeeded by his son, Thomas Bardolf, 5th Lord Bardolf.

Children

*Cecily, b. 1379. Married Sir Bryan Stapleton, with son Miles Stapleton
*Thomas Bardolf, 5th Lord Bardolf.

References

*Burke, John and John Bernard, "The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects", London, 1851, vol.2, p.vii, and pedigree CXVII.
*Waters, Robert E.C., B.A., Barrister of the Inner Temple, "Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley" &c., London, 1878, vol.1, p.140.
*Burke, Sir Bernard, C.B.,LL.D., Ulster King of Arms, "The Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire", London, 1883, p.22)
*Coppinger, W.A., M.A., etc., "The Manors of Suffolk", London, 1905, pp.46-49.
*Rye, Walter, (editor), "The Visitation of Norfolk, 1563 & 1613", made by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, Clarencieux Cooke, and John Raven, Richmond Herald, London, 1891, p.65.
*Rye, Walter, "Norfolk Families", part II, Norwich, 1912, p.845.
*Carr-Calthrop, Colonel Christopher William, C.B.E.,M.D., etc., "Notes on the Families of Calthorpe & Calthrop", etc., Third edition, London, 1933. A pedigree showing Bardolf's the descent from Edward I, King of England and his wife Eleanor of Castile is on p.43.
*"The Visitation of Suffolk, 1561", pp.186 & 243.
*Weis, Frederick Lewis, et al., "The Magna Charta Sureties 1215", 5th edition, Baltimore, 2002, p.49.
*Richardson, Douglas, "Plantagenet Ancestry", Baltimore, Md., 2004, p.56.
*Richardson, Douglas, "Magna Carta Ancestry", Baltmore, 2005, p.40.