1. Site of the keep at the top of a high mound overgrown with trees, the site itself used as the farmer's garden. 2.2. "Castle close." 3. 3. 3. 3. Ditch with a bank, of which there are considerable remains towards the close, containing within it 44 acres of land. The Lady Julia de Gournay, wife of Lord Bardolf, died in 1295, the 23rd Edward I. Her son, Hugh Lord Bardolf, was at this time forty a Claus. 24 Edw. I. m. 12. ជ years of age." This Hugh Bardolf was in Gascony, in that king's service, and was present at the siege of Carlaverock, 32 Edw. I. 1304. In the ancient poem describing this siege, he is thus noticed. d Hue Bardoulf de grant maniere, Riches homs, preus, e courtois, En asure quintfuelles trois Portoit de fin or esmere.c From this Hugh descended Thomas Lord Bardolf, who died of wounds received in battle, when in insurrection against Henry IV. in 1405, leaving two daughters and coheirs, Anne, wife of Sir William Clifford, and 2nd of Sir Reginald Cobham, knt. and Joan, wife of Sir William Phelip, son of Sir John Phelip of Dennington in Suffolk. That the eldest of these ladies died without issue is evinced by Sir William Phelip and his descendants inheriting the whole of the estates of the Gournays and Bardolfs, and bearing the title of Lord Bardolf. In the church of Dennington in Suffolk, is a fine monument of this Sir William Phelip Lord Bardolf and his wife. He was chamberlain to King Henry VI. and in high favour with that monarch. By Joan, his wife, Lord Bardolf had an only daughter, Elizabeth, who married John first Viscount Beaumont," whose son, William Viscount Beaumont, dying without issue, was succeeded by his nephew Francis, created Viscount Lovel, son of John Lord Lovel, by Joan, sister of the said William Viscount Beaumont. This Viscount Lovel, being a supporter of Lambert Simnel, met with a melancholy and untimely end after the battle of Stoke, near Newark, 3rd Henry VII. (1488.) "For it was rumoured a Hugh Bardolf granted to the Friars Minors of Lynn a spring of water, called Stanwell at Hardwick, within his lordship of North Runcton, 29th Edw. I. (1301). See deed in Appendix XLI. b Edit. Nicolas, page 6. c Or esmere, fine gold. d Robert Bardolf, knt. willeth to be buried in the church of Maple-Durham-Gurney, where his father and mother are buried. He giveth to many churches reparations, "also the erectin a toambe for me, that praiers may be said for me the more decently, lx"." Amice, his wife, had the rest of his goods, and was his chief executor. Dated at Mapledurham-Gurney, A°. Domini 1395. Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. iii. p. 102. Dugdale, Bar. vol. i. p. 683. f Ibid. vol. ii. p. 213. 8 Ibid. vol. ii. p. 54. he escaped from the battle, and retiring to some secret place, was starved to death by the treachery or neglect of those in whom he confided; which report was confirmed by the discovery of a large vault or room underground, at Minster Lovel in Oxfordshire, which had been the residence of this nobleman. In this vault was an entire skeleton of a man, as having been sitting at a table, which was before him, with a book, paper, pen, &c. In another part of the room lay a cap, all much mouldered and decayed, which it was judged was this Lord Lovel, and that it was his fate to have retired to this house after the battle of Stoke, and to have entrusted himself to some servant, by whom he was immured, and afterwards neglected through treachery, fear, or some other accident." a He left no issue, but his two sisters became his heirs, Joane, the wife of Sir Bryan Stapleton, knt.' and Fridiswide, wife of Sir Edward Norris, knt. From the elder of these ladies are descended the ancient family of the Stapletons of Carlton in Yorkshire, the head of whom is now Lord Beaumont; from the younger, the Berties, Earls of Abingdon; which two families are, through females, the representatives of the last Hugh de Gournay of the Anglo Norman baronial line. Subjoined is a pedigree of this descent. a Banks' Extinct Baron. vol. ii. p. 322. b Ibid. P. 321. c Ibid. Thomas Stapleton, Esq. claimed the.... barony of Beaumont 1789, ob. 1821. coigne. Anne Mark Er- Mary, ton, even tually a nun, Esq. of ob. Ponte land. 1668. Nicholas took the name of Stapleton.Mary Scroope. Nicholas Stapleton. Winifred White. Miles Stapleton, of Clints Lady Maria Bertie, dau. of Willoughby Earl of Catharine, widow of Sir George Miles Stapleton, of Carlton, Thomas Stapleton, Esq. of the Grove, near Maria, dau. of Sir Rob.Gerard, Bart. Thomas. Other children. The seals of the Bardolfs here engraved are attached to deeds in the possession of Sir Thomas Hare, Baronet, of Stow Bardolf, Norfolk. The arms of the families which occur in the descent above stated, were as follows: Bardolf: Azure, three cinquefoils or. Phelip: Quarterly gules and argent, in first and fourth quarter an eagle displayed or. Clifford Checquy, or and azure, a fess gules. |