Sir Bartholomew Burghersh Kg ^{1 2 4 5 6}

   Ancestral File Number: 9QKF-RB.

  General Notes:

Sir Bartholomew de Burghersh, d. 3 Aug 1355, Lord Burghersh, son of Robert, Lord Burghersh and Maud de Badlesmere. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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BARONY OF BURGHERSH (III, 1)

BARTHOLOMEW BURGHERSH, 3rd son of Robert [LORD BURGHERSH]. He served in the wars of Scotland, temp. Edward II and joined the Earl of Lancaster in his rebellion and was defeated with him at Boroughbridge, 16 March 1321/2, and taken prisoner, but restored by Isabel, the Queen Consort. Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports 1327, 1343, and 1346-50. He was summoned to Parliament from 25 January 1329/30 to 15 March 1353/4. the later writs having the word Senior added to his description. Chief Justice in Eyre, South of Trent 1335-43. In 1340, being then aged 36 and more, he was found heir to certain lands of his brother, Henry, Bishop of Lincoln and Lord Treasurer. He was a Banneret in 1341. In August 1343 he formed part of an important embassy to the Pope. He fought at the battle of Crécy, 25 Aug. 1346, was Chamberlain of th household, Constable of the Tower of London 7 June 1355 till his death.

He married, before 11 June 1320, when she was of age, Elizabeth, 2nd daughter and coheir of Sir Theobald DE VERDON, of Alton, co. Stafford, [LORD VERDON], by his 1st wife, Maud, daughter of Sir Edmund DE MORTIMER [LORD MORTIMER (of Wigmore)], and acquired with her the Castle of Ewyas Lacy, co. Hereford, Stoke-upon-Tern, co. Salop, and other considerable estates. He died 3 August 1355, and was buried in the Grey Friars, London. His widow died 1360, and was also buried there. [Complete Peerage II:426, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Note: Douglas Richardson, in a posting to soc.genealogy.medieval, 12 Aug 2002, states that he died in Dover Castle, Kent and was probably buried in St Catharine, Lincoln.

Bartholomew married Elizabeth Verdon, daughter of Sir Theobald 2Nd Baron De Verdun Mp and Maud De Mortimer, before 11 Jun 1320.^{1 2 3} (Elizabeth Verdon was born about 1291 in Alton, Staffordshire, England,^{2 3} died on 1 May 1360 ^{1 2 3} and was buried in 1360 in The Grey Friars, London, Middlsex, England.)