BADLESMERE. 215 MERE) to Pari. Ho obtained ,1 grant of the Castle of Leeds in Kent, and in (1314-15), 8 Eil. II, was Wade Governor of Skipton Caatle and of all the castles in Yorkshire ami Westmoreland wheieof Hubert de Clifford hail d. seized, lie was also Steward of the Kin"'s Household. Notwithstanding the many favors he hail received he joined the Earl of Lancaster in his rebellion and was defeated with him at Boroughbridge 16 March 13-22, captured at Stow Park, attainted and hung as a traitor at Canterbury 14 April 1322. lie »». Margaret, aunt and coheir to Thomas de Clare, Seneschal of the Forest of Essex, da. of Thomas I)E (,'LAItK (a yr. s. of Richard, E.utr, OF GLOfC'ESTUIt,) by Amy, da of Sir Maurice Kitz M.uritn'K. Me d. as aforesaid 1322. His widow, notorious for having refused the Queen admission to the Royal Castle of Leeds in the summer of 1321, was besieged therein by the King (Edward II), and being captured with the castle on 11 Xov. following was imprisoned in the Tower of London, but was subsequently released and obtained a dower on lauds at Castlecombc, Wilts, &c. II, 1328, & Giles de Badlesmere, s. and h, was 14 years old to (132!)) 2 Ed. Ill, when he obtained the reversal of his father'* attainder, 1338 and though a minor, had livery of his father's lands (1333) 7 Ed. III. He was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD BADLESMERE) 22 Jany. (133.3-6) 9 E.I. Ill to 20 Dec. (1337) 11 Ed. III. He m. Elizabeth, da. of William (Moxtacutk) 1st E.utr. ok SALISBURY, by Catherine da. of William ((iKanmson) Loud Gka.vdiso.v. He </. s.p. 1333, since which time the Barony lias been in abeyance.^) His widow m. Hugh (lk DKsrKXCElt), Loud Diospentki!, 1338-49, who d. s.p. 1349. She herself d. before 1342. /«$ post mortem, 15 Ed. III. 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 sac. 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 7 th Earl would (according to the now received law in Peerage descent) have devolved. This their assumption was on the principle (then generally believed) that when a Barony once became united with an Earldom it continued alien- d'xnt thereon. At length on the death s.p. of Henry, the ISth Earl, in 1625, when this Barony together with other honours were claimed by Robert de Vere, his cousin and h. male, the House, on 5 April 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 Bolebcc, Sandford and Ikdlesmere were in abeyance between the heirs gen, of the said John, Earl of Oxford. But in the " Lords' Reports " (3rd) it is added that the Committee apprehend that if inquiry had been made " it would have appeared that the Barony of Badlesmere had been in abeyance between four coheirs, one of whom m. John, then Earl of Oxford; and unless the Crown had done some act, calling the dignity out of abeyance in favour of some Earl of Oxford, of which the committee have not found any trace, that dignity, if an hereditary dignity, was never vested in any Earl of Oxford, and must have remained in abeyance between the four coheirs of Giles ilc Badlesmere and not between the coheirs of John, Earl of Oxford." ( a ) On his death his four sisters wore found his coheirs and in their issue rests the representation of the Barony. They were (1) Margery, then aged 32 and wife of William de Rous by whom she was ancestress of the Lords de Roos, &e. (2) Maud, then aged 28 and Countess of Oxford. She </. (1366) 40 Ed. 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, Roger de Mortimer, had a a. and li., Roger, Earl of March, through whom her share m the Barony became vested in the Crown in the person of Edward IV. (1) Margaret., then 23 years old and wife of John de Tiptoft, whose s. and h. Robert s.p.m. 1372, leaving three daughters and coheirs. The coheirs of the Barony of Badlesmere (1S55) W8 given in "Courthope," p. 38, and somewhat more fully (1S22) in " Coll. Top. and tten., vol. viii, p. 181,
