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 BADLESMERE COMPLETE PEERAGE 373 by writs directed Egidio de Badlismere, 22 Jan. (1335/6) 9 Edw. Ill to 20 Dec. (1337) 1 1 Edw. III. He m., after Feb. 1327/8, Elizabeth, (") da. of William (Montagu), ist Earl of Salisbury, by Catherine, da. of William [Lord] Granson. (") He d. s.p., between 7 Apr. and 22 June 1338, aged 24, since which time any Barony, that may be supposed to have existed, has been in abeyance. (") His widow m., betore May 1341, Hugh [Lord] Le Despenser, who d. s.p. 8 Feb. 1348/9. She m., 3rdly, before 10 July 1350, Guy [Lord] Bryan, who d. 17 Aug. 1390. She d. 31 May 1359, at Ashley, Hants, and was bur. in Tewkesbury Abbey. C^) Note. — The Barony of Badlesmere was assumed by John (de Vere), 7th Earl of Oxford in right of his wife, who (though she was not the eldest of the sisters and coheirs of the last Lord) had sue. to the Lordship of Badlesmere, Kent. The succeeding Earls likewise assumed the style of Lords Badlesmere, and that, too, even after the death of John, the 14th Earl, in 1526, s.p.m., on whose sisters and coheirs the representation of any Barony in fee which might have been vested in the issue of the 7th Earl would (according to the now received law in Peerage descent) have devol- ved. This their assumption was on the principle (then generally believed) that when a Barony once became united with an Earldom it continued attend- ant thereon. At length on the death s.p. of Henry, the i8th Earl, in 1625, when this Barony together with other honours was claimed by Robert de Vere, his cousin and h. male, the House, on 5 Apr. 1626 (without enquiring into the origin or nature of these dignities, or even into the fact of their actual existence in the person of the said John, the 14th Earl), resolved that the Baronies of Bolebec, Sandford and Badlesmere were in abeyance between the heirs gen. of the said John, Earl of Oxford. But in the C) " Mary [«f] who was wife of Giles de Badlesmere " brings an action in Mich. 1340. (Year Books, 14 and 15 Edw. Ill, Rolls Series, p. 200.) V.G. (") For some discussion on mediaeval English names see vol. iii, Appendix C. V.G. f^) On his death his four sisters were found his coheirs, and in their issue rests the representation of the Barony. They were (i) Margery, then aged 32, and wife of William de Ros, by whom she was ancestress of the Lords de Ros, is'c. (2) Maud, then aged 28, and Countess of Oxford. She d. (1366) 40 Edw. Ill, being ancestress of John, the 14th Earl of Oxford, on whose death s.p. in 1526, his three sisters became coheirs. (3) Elizabeth, then aged 25, and Countess of Northampton, who by her 1st husband, Edmund de Mortimer, had a s. and h., Roger, Earl of March, through whom her share in the Barony became vested in the Crown in the person of Edward IV. (4) Margaret, then 23 years old, and wife of John, [2nd Lord] Tiptoft or Tibetot, whose s. and h., Robert, d. s.p.m. i2>l^-> leaving three daughters and coheirs. The coheirs of the Barony of Badlesmere (1855) are given in Courthope, p. 38, and somewhat more fully (1822) in Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. viii, p. 181. n "i359> apud Assteley in comitatu Hamptonie, ultimo die mensis Maii " [Chron. of Tewkesbury, in Monasticon, vol. ii, p. 62), i.e., Ashley, Hants, a manor of the Despensers. It has been stated that there is an /ny. p. m. on her of date 15 Edw. Ill, but there is, of course, no such Ing. On the tomb of Guy de Brian at Tewkesbury, the arms of Montagu are impaled with his own : but the lady is buried hard by, under a magnificent tomb on the North side of the High Altar, with her 2nd husband, Hugh le Despenser. {ex inform. G. W. Watson.) V.G.