Robert Bardolf (1174 - bef. 1225)

Born 1174 in of, Great Carlton, Lincolnshire, England

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Biography

Clay (pp.8-10) gives a summary:^[1]

ROBERT BARDOLF. At Michaelmas 1203 he owed 1,000 li. for the lands of Hugh Bardolf his brother, being those of inheritance, with the custody of heirs, farms and free farms with the exception of Bromsgrove and [King's] Norton [co. Worcester], which he surrendered to the King; the payment was to be made in instalments of 100li. and 200li. ending at Michaelmas 1205; he paid 687 li. by Michaelmas 1204, then owing 313 li. and 80 marks for 20 hauberks (loricis) and 4 small hauberks (halbergellis), and 313. li. in the following year.85 On 10 November 1203 the King confirmed to him the manor of Hoo, Kent;86 and also on 8 February 1204-5 his assignment to Reading abbey of the 40 marks in the manor of Hoo which King Henry II had given as an endowment 87. His interest in Hoo is shown by his gift there to Barlings abbey 88 his gift of 20 acres to the prioress and nuns of Lillechurch;89 his gift of land to Reginald he Cornhill;90 and the occurrence at Easter 1208 of Geoffrey de Ho as his steward in Kent.91

In 1205, for the 120 marks which Robert Bardolf recognised that he owed to Hugh de Neville on account of Hugh Bardolf, who had owed the said sum to Henry de Cornhill, whose daughter and heir Hugh de Neville had married, Geoffrey Fitz Peter was ordered to deliver to the latter the manor of Great Carlton (Carleton super mare) with its castle, to hold for the purpose of his debt, and to seize a moiety of the debt for the King's use;92 and at Michaelmas of that year Robert Bardolf owed 60 marks of the debt.93 In the same year he gave 20 marks for the King to keep from injury the land of Waddington for which he had arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against the earl of Chester.94 On this account the earl was fined 100 li. for his disseisin.95

In 1203-05 he gave to the church of Lincoln land in Bransby, co. Lincoln, which had been held of Hugh his brother;96 and in 1203-06 he was instrumental in arranging an agreement between the dean of Lincoln and the abbot of Barlings with respect to two-thirds of its tithes of the demesne in Scothern formerly belonging to Hugh Bardolf of whom he was brother and heir.97 In 1207 he made the final concord with Robert de Ropsley and Amabel his wife for the latter's dower from the lands held by Hugh Bardolf, her former husband, as noted above. He was a considerable bene'factor of Barlings abbey, giving land in Scothern with the advowson of the church, land in South Carlton mainly of the marriage portion of Isabel his mother, and the land in Hoo which has already been mentioned.98 He also confirmed the gift of Hamelin Bardolf his uncle to the same house of the church of Bungay;99 and his gift of a bovate of land in Great and Castle Carlton and other gifts were confirmed by King John.100

In 1212 he held half a knight's fee in Waddington of the earl of Chester;101 two knights' fees in Scothern and Riseholme of Gerard de Camville,102 the husband of Nichola daughter and coheir of Richard de la Haye;103 and land in Grimston, co. Nottingham, for the service of one knight of Waiter de Cliffordl04, ,ho held of the bishop and church of Lincoln.105 There were several occasions, shown in the Pipe Rolls, when he paid scutage on a knight's fee for his manor of Hoo, held in chief.106 :Robert Bardolf took the part of the barons, and on 28 October 1215 the King gave to Hubert de Burgh, the justiciar, the land of Hoo with the hundred, which had belonged to Robert and was worth 100li.107 On 9 January 1215-6 the King ordered the sheriffs of Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Kent and Norfolk, to hold the lands of Robert Bardolf in their bailiwicks until the King returned to England,108 neither the King nor Robert taking anything therein in the meantime.109 On 20 March 1216-7 the King ordered the sheriffs of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire to give seisin of all Robert Bardolf's lands, to hold at pleasure, to Robert le Lu, who can be identified as Robert le Lou or Lupus, son of Maud, one of Robert Bardolf's sisters.110 In 1217 Robert Bardolf returned to service and in September the sheriffs of Kent, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire were ordered to give him seisin.lll It appears that in the winter of 1215 King John had tried to win over Robert Bardolf to his service, writing a letter to him on 30 December, in which he gave him a safe conduct for coming and making his peace, saying that as he had taken the cross the king bore him no ill-Will 112; but the letters of safe conduct issued on 5 January 113 evidently had no immediate effect. In 1219 a prohibition was issued to William earl of Salisbury from strengthening the castle of Carlton [co. Lincoln], which had been held by Robert Bardolf and was then in the earl's Custody114; showing that Robert had never recovered it since the events of 1205, noted above.

Robert Bardolf died in or before 1225, when his lands passed to his five sisters or their representatives.115

Sources

1. ↑ Clay, C.T. "Hugh Bardolf the Justice and his Family", Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, Volume 1 (1966), pages 5-28.

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• Ancestral File Number: V9RV-1M.

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