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Hugh Bardolf (abt. 1120 - abt. 1176)

Hugh Bardolf aka Bardulf
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Husband of — married about 1158 [location unknown]
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Died about at about age 56 [location unknown]
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European Aristocracy
Hugh Bardolf was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

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Biography

Sir Hugh Bardolf (d. c.1776) of Lincolnshire m. Isabel, possibly of the Twist family of South Carlton, Lincolnshire. He was the father of Hugh Bardolf (d. 1203), justice, sheriff and Robert Bardolf. [1]

Birth

It is not known whether he was born in England or France. His family appear to have connections to the region of Coutance. Clay says that it "can be tentatively suggested that he was born c.1120".[2]

Marriage

Clay:

Hugh Bardolf the elder married Isabel who is so named in his charters to Kirkstead abbey and who issued a charter to that house.[App. I nos. 2-4.] She is also so named as his mother by Robert Bardolf in one of his charters to Barlings abbey, in which he gave 151/2 bovates of land in South Carlton, co. Lincoln, described as of her marriage portion.[App. I no. 13.]

Clay explains that there is evidence for her being a member of a family which used the surname Tuit, Twit or Thuit, or perhaps a member of the Condet family, writing that for "neither of these possibilities is any convincing proof forthcoming; but perhaps of the two the second is more likely".

Family

Clay (with line breaks and bulleting added):

"Hugh Bardolf and his wife Isabel had two sons,
  • Hugh the king's justice and
  • Robert, the latter's brother and successor,
and five daughters. These,[For details see App II] who or whose heirs were the coheirs of Robert Bardolf at his death, were as follows:
  • (i) a daughter who married Richard Foliot and was the mother of Jordan Foliot, one of the coheirs in 1225.
  • (ii) a daughter, who married an unknown husband, and was the mother of Isolda de Grey, who married first, Henry de Grey of Codnor, whose family descended from their son Richard; and, secondly, Reginaid de Meaudre. The writ for the inquisition after her death is dated 18 June, 1246.[3][4]
  • (iii) Juliana, who married Nicholas Poinz and was the grandmother of a younger Nicholas, a coheir under age in 1225.
  • (iv) Maud, who married Robert son of Pain and was the mother of Robert le Lou, whose daughter joan married John le Despenser and died without surviving issue; and also the mother of Isabel, the ancestress of the Meriet family. Maud was buried at Barlings abbey.[Barlings Chartulary, f.33v]
  • (v) a daughter who was the mother of Ralph Paynel, one of the coheirs in 1225."

Research Notes

From Clay, but in bullet form and with footnotes adjusted, we can note some documentary evidence:

  • "In the period 1142-53 Hugh Bardolf was given by Ranulf II earl of Chester all the demesne of the manor of Waddington, co. Lincoln, with specified exceptions, for the free service of 3 marks. [Charter no. 1 in Clay's Appendix I.]
  • He witnessed c.1150 a charter of Ralph de la Laye son of Ralph de la Haye, confirming to the abbey of Ste-Marie la Sauve Majeure, dio. Bourdeaux, and the monks dwelling at Burwell, co. Lincoln, all the endowments which his father's predecessors and his father himself gave at Burwell, among the other witnesses being Ralph abbot of Barlings (Oexentie) and Dodo Bardolf. [18[5]]
  • He also witnessed, c.1150-60, a charter of Ralph de Haye (Aia), giving to the church of Lincoln rents from a mill and tenement in Burwell [Reg. Antiquissimum, Lincoln Rec. Soc, vi, 144.], and in the same period one of William Fossard to Guisborough priory [E.Y.C., no. 1097].
  • In 1155-58 he witnessed with Dodo Bardolf and Hamelin Bardolf a charter of Richard de Haye and Maud his wife giving to the abbey of Blanchelande, of which Richard was the founderal, the vill of Cammeringham, co. Lincoln [Mon. Ang., vi, 1116, giving the date of foundation as 1155. The latest date for the charter is 1158 as Baldric (pd. as Baldwin) de Sigillo witnessed without the archidiaconal style.];
  • in 1160-63 he witnessed one of Robert earl of Leicester, notifying that a knight's fee was held of the bishop and church of Lincoln in the manor of Knighton, co. Leicester [Reg. Antiquissimum, ii, 5.];
  • and in 1171-72 a charter to Catley priory.[Gilbertine Charters, Lincoln Rec. Sec., p. 85.]
  • On 28 September 1166 he issued a charter to Kirkstead abbey giving land and pasture in Riseholme, co. Lincoln, and to meet the possibility of a claim after his death by Isabel his wife, who was dowered of the land, he issued another, assigning an equivalent amount in Scothern to be held by the abbey during her life with reversion of the land in Riseholme. [App. I charter nos. 2 and 3.]
  • He also gave land and pasture in Riseholme to Barlings abbey which was confirmed by King Henry II, describing him as Hugh Bardolf the elder. [App. I no. 7. ]
  • He was enfeoffed by Ralph de la Haye of 4 carucates in Castle and Great Carlton,co. Lincoln, for the service of a third of a knight's fee; [BK. of Fees, p. 175; and see note above.] and in 1166 he held 2 knights' fees of the new feoffment of Richard de Haye, whose carta was returned from Lincolnshire.[Red BK. Exch., p. 391.] These two fees can be identified as being situate in Riseholme and Scothern, co. Lincoln, where in 1212 his son Robert Bardolf held 2 knights' fees of Gerard de Camville,[Bk. of Fees, p. 192.] who had married Nichola a daughter and coheiress of Richard de la Haye.[Rot. de Dominabus, Pipe Roll Sec., p. 12.] The latter was the son of Robert de Haye, [Cal. Docs. France, no. 922 for a charter of Robert de Haye in 1123, mentioning his wife Muriel and sons Richard and Ralph.] who held land in both places at the Lindsey survey.[Lindsey Survey, p. 241.] Moreover, in one of Robert Bardolf's charters to Barlings abbey it is stated that he held a knight's fee of the heirs of Richard de Haye in Scothern[App. I no. 13.]; and a confirmation charter to the abbey shows that Robert had held a knight's fee of Nichola de Haye in Scothern.[Cal. Charter Rolls, 1226-57, p. 88.]
  • References to Hugh Bardolf's interests in Lincolnshire show that he was pardoned 2 marks there in 1161,[Pipe Roll 7 Hen. p. 17.] and that he and Robert de Tadewella (Tathwell) paid a mark in 1177 for licence to make an agreement.[Ibid. 23 Hen. p. 112.]
  • He also held interests in Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire, where he was pardoned 4s. 6d. in 1162,[ibid. 8 Hen. p. 33.] and rendered account of 10 marks in 1170 for a respite for a recognition between him and John Burden, paying 5 marks and being pardoned 5 marks in 1171.[ibid. 16 Hen. p. 83; 17 Hen. II, p. 50.]
  • It is probable that the fine of 5 marks for a forest offence there in 1176 of which he paid 2 1/2 marks, the balance being due in the following year,[ibid. 22 Hen. p. 94; 23 Hen. p. 59.] refers to him rather than to his son Hugh as has been supposed.[By Foss, Judges of England ii 32]"

The placement of Isolde de Gray within the Bardolf family

There is a primary source (Fine Rolls, 9 Hen III, p. 129.) indicating that Isolda de Grey was the granddaughter of Hugh, not his daughter, with Robert son of Hugh as her uncle. The other source presented that suggests that Isolda was the daughter of Hugh as noted in Medieval Lands doesn't have such a source.

Medieval Lands noted this:

"The birth date of Hugh [I] Bardolf (father of Robert Bardolf) is estimated to before 1135 (see above). Hugh’s children would presumably therefore have been born in [1160/80]. If that date range is correct, the date of Isolda’s second marriage, and also the chronology of the Grey family, suggest that Isolda was more probably Hugh’s granddaughter than his daughter. Another possibility is that the wife of Henry de Grey was Robert’s sister and that “Isold de Gray” who is named in the 1 Jul 1225 source was the couple’s daughter. However, in that case, it is unclear why Isolda’s son Richard would not have been named as the Grey representative of the heirs who are named in 1 Jul 1225. On balance, it appears more likely that Isolda was Robert Bardolf’s niece, although if that is correct there is no indication of her father’s family."

Fine Roll, 9 Hen. III. 60/23 from 1 July 1225:

“Concerning homage taken. The king has taken the homage of Jordan Foliot, Isolda de Gray and Ralph Paynel for the portions that fall to them of the lands formerly of Robert Bardolf, their uncle, which he held of the king in chief. Order to the sheriff of Kent that, having accepted security from them for rendering as much of their relief to the king as they ought to render by judgement of the king’s court, he is to cause them to have full seisin of their portions of the aforesaid lands in his bailiwick falling to them by inheritance. Having also accepted security from Robert Wolf, in the place of Matilda Bardolf, his mother, who is one of the heirs of the aforesaid Robert, for rendering as much of her relief as pertains to her, similarly, for her part of the lands formerly of the same Robert, he is to cause the same Robert to have full seisin in the place of his mother for the portion falling to her by inheritance of the aforesaid lands. He is, however, to keep safely the portion falling to the son and heir of Hugh Poinz , who is similarly one of the heirs of the same Robert and is under age and in the custody of the king, until the king orders otherwise."

Parentage and relatives

The parentage of Hugh and Hamelin Bardolf is unknown, but they were probably closely related to Thomas Bardolf, ancestor of the Lords Bardolf of Wormegay. Hugh appears together with a Doun Bardolf in the Red Book of the Exchequer in 1166, in the Lincolnshire barony of Richard de la Haye. Both were newly enfeoffed. Doun is an unusual name, and one which Thomas used for his son.[6]

Keats-Rohan believed Hugh's father was Hamelin, who had been a tenant in Bungay.[7] However the article she cites by Clay gives a different explanation of the family which we use here.[2]

Hugh's son's Wikipedia entry correctly explains that (as in Clay) the modern Oxford Dictionary of National Biography believes there were two generations of Hugh. The elder one had a brother Hamelin and his wife was Isabel. The younger Hugh, the justice, married Mabel de Limesy. His brother and heir was Robert. There might also have been an earlier Hamelin.[8] But who was the father of the elder

Clay:

It is possible that they all descended from Odo Bardol, giving the earliest recorded mention of the surname[14] in Normandy, who was one of the witnesses, of whom King William was the first, to a notification dated 1084 in favour of the abbey of Lessey,[15] near the de la Haye home of La Haye-du-Puits; but no further references to Odo are available.[16]

Clay also mentions another proposal:

Stapleton in Rot. Scacc. Norm., ii, ccxvi, gave it as his revised opinion that the brothers Doun and Thomas were sons of an earlier Doun; but in the absence of definite evidence this is difficult to accept.

However it appears Stapleton was giving a proposal for the parentage of Thomas Bardolf, not Hugh, in this passage (and he does explain evidence for his position).

This leaves open the question of the relationship between the family of Thomas and the family of Hugh, but they were clearly closely inter-acting for generations.

Stapleton, in an opinion he adjusted over time, came to the conclusion that Thomas and Doun, brothers in France, were both indeed sons of Doun who appears in the Red Book.[9] This would of course still not explain the connection to the family of Hugh Bardulf, but the two families inter-acted closely for some generations.

The family apparently held land in Normandy and traveled there. Stapleton (ccxv) demonstrates that Thomas and Rohese had land in Bermonville near Fauville-en-Caux. (Keats-Rohan noted under another Bardolf family that there was a Bardolf family in Bournainville, but this is another place. Stapleton explains his reasoning.) Clay later argued strongly for a connection to the Coutances region in western Normandy where the de la Haye family also lived:

"This is suggested not only because members of the family were benefactors of the abbey of Blanchelande, giving the tithe of two mills in the arrondissement of Cherbourg, but because they were closely connected with the family of La Haye, the founders of the abbey, both in Normandy and England".

Sources

  1. Round, J. (2004, September 23). Bardolf, Hugh (d. 1203), justice. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. Retrieved 25 Sep. 2018 https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1359]
  2. 2.0 2.1 Clay, C.T. (1966) "Hugh Bardolf the Justice and his Family", Lincolnshire History and Archaeology 50.
  3. Fine Roll C 60/23, 9 HENRY III (1225) Henry III Fine Rolls Project [accessed 11 July 2022].
  4. Charles Cawley. Isolda Bardolf, granddaughter of Hugh Bardolf, entry in "Medieval Lands" database (accessed 11 July 2022).
  5. Clay's footnote: "Cal. Docs. France, no. 1243. The endowments of Ansgot de Burwell of several churches including those of Burwell and [Great] Carlton, co. Lincoln, are given in ibid., no. 1239, date assigned [?] c.1110. Ansgot held 2 carucates in Burwell at the Domesday and Lindsey surveys (Lincs. Domesday and Lindsey Survey, Lincoln Rec. Sec., pp. 175-258). It is recorded in the returns of 1212 that Ansgot's holdings, mainly corresponding with the details in the Dorriesday survey, had escheated and were given by the King to Ralph de la Haye for the service of one knight, and that Ralph de la Haye gave to Hugh Bardolf 4 carucates in Carlton [Castle and Great Carlton]--the amount there which had been held by Ansgot-- for the service of a third of a knight's fee (Bk. of Fees, p. 175). "
  6. Red book of the Exchequer, Vol.1, pp.390-1. For detailed commentary on this carta see Holt, J.C. (1969) "The carta of Richard de la Haye, 1166: a note on "continuity" in Anglo-Norman feudalism", originally in EHR 84, also in Colonial England, 1066-1215. See p.109 footnote 39. For 1212 he cites Book of Fees Vol.I, p.192. For the 1240s he cites Vol.2 p.1073.
  7. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, pp.162-3. Possibly she derived this from Barraclough's comments in his edition of Chester Charters p.79, which she cites.
  8. Farrer, Honors and Knights Fees II, p.234 and footnote citing Calendar of Charter Rolls II, p.390 but note that this is undated and only says Hugo is an heir, which means he could be a brother.
  9. Stapleton, Magni rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae ccxvi

Also see

  • Weis, Frederick Lewis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (5th ed., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999.), pp. 60-2, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.273 W426 1999.
  • Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005.), p. 605.
  • Victoria County History, A History of the County of Hertford: volume 3, Author William Page (editor), 1912 Pages 158-165
  • 'Parishes: Watton-at-Stone', A History of the County of Hertford: volume 3 (1912), pp. 158-165. U
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Bardulf
  • http://www.thepeerage.com/p15851.htm#i158508




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There is a primary source (Fine Rolls, 9 Hen III, p. 129.) indicating that Isolda de Grey was the granddaughter of Hugh, not his daughter, with Robert son of Hugh as her uncle. The other source that suggests that Isolda was the daughter of Hugh doesn't have such a source.

Medieval Lands noted this:

"The birth date of Hugh [I] Bardolf (father of Robert Bardolf) is estimated to before 1135 (see above). Hugh’s children would presumably therefore have been born in [1160/80]. If that date range is correct, the date of Isolda’s second marriage, and also the chronology of the Grey family, suggest that Isolda was more probably Hugh’s granddaughter than his daughter. Another possibility is that the wife of Henry de Grey was Robert’s sister and that “Isold de Gray” who is named in the 1 Jul 1225 source was the couple’s daughter. However, in that case, it is unclear why Isolda’s son Richard would not have been named as the Grey representative of the heirs who are named in 1 Jul 1225. On balance, it appears more likely that Isolda was Robert Bardolf’s niece, although if that is correct there is no indication of her father’s family."

https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#IsoldaBardolfMHernryGrey

Fine Roll, 9 Hen. III. m. 3 noted above:

“Concerning homage taken. The king has taken the homage of Jordan Foliot, Isolda de Gray and Ralph Paynel for the portions that fall to them of the lands formerly of Robert Bardolf, their uncle, which he held of the king in chief. Order to the sheriff of Kent that, having accepted security from them for rendering as much of their relief to the king as they ought to render by judgement of the king’s court, he is to cause them to have full seisin of their portions of the aforesaid lands in his bailiwick falling to them by inheritance. Having also accepted security from Robert Wolf, in the place of Matilda Bardolf, his mother, who is one of the heirs of the aforesaid Robert, for rendering as much of her relief as pertains to her, similarly, for her part of the lands formerly of the same Robert, he is to cause the same Robert to have full seisin in the place of his mother for the portion falling to her by inheritance of the aforesaid lands. He is, however, to keep safely the portion falling to the son and heir of Hugh Poinz , who is similarly one of the heirs of the same Robert and is under age and in the custody of the king, until the king orders otherwise."

https://finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_023.html

To be more correct, there should be an unknown daughter profiled with Isolda as her daughter from an unknown father and Isolda should be detached from Hugh as his daughter.

posted by Darrell Larocque
edited by Darrell Larocque
the statement included:

"Sir Hugh Bardolf (d. c.1776) of Lincolnshire m. Isabel, possibly of the Twist family of South Carlton, Lincolnshire. He was the father of Hugh Bardolf (d. 1203), justice, sheriff and Robert Bardolf" is either incorrectly dated or referring to a much later Hugh of Lincolnshire as the DOB of "about 1120" does not align with "d. c.1776" It should be modified or removed

posted by Dwyne Patrick
Thanks for a very informative profile!
posted by Isaac Taylor
Round's old ODNB bio (for Hugh's son): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bardolf,_Hugh_(DNB00)

I presume we will need to split out an article for the son and move some material to there.

posted by Andrew Lancaster
The wife is not the one found in publications. Disconnect?
posted by Andrew Lancaster
Should the parents be disconnected?
posted by Andrew Lancaster
The DOBs of Hugh (1140), mother Amabillia (1130) and GF Akaris (c1110) do not seem reasonable.
posted by Steve Selbrede

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