Paternal Family Tree: Burghesh
Maternal Family Tree: Clemence Roches Countess Blois
Before 1314 [his father] Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 26] and [his mother] Elizabeth Verdun Baroness Burghesh [aged 13] were married.
In or before 1328 Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh was born to Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 40] and Elizabeth Verdun Baroness Burghesh [aged 27].
On 25th January 1330 [his father] Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 43] was created 1st Baron Burghesh. [his mother] Elizabeth Verdun Baroness Burghesh [aged 30] by marriage Baroness Burghesh.
On 31st August 1330 John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster [aged 61] died. His grandson [his future brother-in-law] John [aged 10] succeeded 2nd Baron Mohun of Dunster. Given his young age he became a ward of the King who sold his wardship and marriage to [his uncle] Bishop Henry Burghesh [aged 38] who then married him to his niece [his sister] Joan Burghesh Baroness Mohun [aged 11], daugher of his brother [his father] Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 43].
Before 10th May 1335 Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh [aged 7] and Cecily Weyland [aged 21] were married. They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King John of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King John of England.
Around 1342 [his daughter] Elizabeth Burghesh 3rd Baron Burghesh was born to Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh [aged 14] and [his wife] Cecily Weyland [aged 28]. She married before 1373 her half fourth cousin once removed Edward Despencer 1st Baron Despencer, Baron Burghesh and had issue.
On 23rd April 1344 King Edward III of England [aged 31] created the Order of the Garter. The date nominal as there are different accounts; some sources say 1348.
2 Henry of Grosmont 1st Duke Lancaster.
3 Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick.
4 Jean Grailly.
5 Ralph Stafford 1st Earl Stafford.
6 William Montagu 2nd Earl Salisbury.
7 Roger Mortimer 2nd Earl March.
9 Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh.
10 John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Warwick.
11 [his future brother-in-law] John Mohun 2nd Baron Mohun of Dunster.
12 Hugh Courtenay.
13 Thomas Holland 1st Earl Kent.
15 Richard Fitzsimon.
16 Miles Stapleton.
17 Thomas Wale.
18 Hugh Wrottesley.
19 Neil Loring.
20 John Chandos.
21 James Audley.
22 Otho Holland.
23 Henry Eam.
24 Sanchet Abrichecourt.
On 26th August 1346 the army of King Edward III of England [aged 33] defeated the French army at the Battle of Crécy. The English army was commanded by King Edward III of England, his son Edward "Black Prince" [aged 16], Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick [aged 33], William Bohun 1st Earl of Northampton [aged 36] and John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Warwick [aged 30].
The English army was included: Bishop Thomas of Hatfield [aged 36], Hugh Despencer 1st Baron Despencer [aged 38], Bernard Brocas [aged 16], Thomas Felton [aged 16], James Audley [aged 28], Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier, [his father] Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 59], Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh [aged 18], Reginald Cobham 1st Baron Cobham [aged 51], John Darcy 1st Baron Darcy of Knayth [aged 66], Robert Ferrers 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley [aged 37], Richard Scrope 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton [aged 19], William Scrope [aged 21], Stephen Scrope [aged 21], William Latimer 4th Baron Latimer of Corby [aged 16], John Lisle 2nd Baron Lisle [aged 28], Gerard Lisle 1st Baron Lisle [aged 42], Nicholas Longford [aged 61], Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu, Walter Paveley 4th Baron Burghesh [aged 27], Michael Poynings 1st Baron Poynings [aged 28], Robert Ufford 1st Earl Suffolk [aged 48], John de Vere 7th Earl of Oxford [aged 34], Thomas West [aged 34], John Willoughby 2nd Baron Willoughby [aged 43], John Wingfield [aged 26], Henry Percy 11th and 3rd Baron Percy [aged 25], Hugh Courtenay 2nd or 10th Earl Devon [aged 43] (possibly), Walter "Elder" Devereux [aged 37], John Devereux [aged 44], Enion Sais Brecon, John Chandos [aged 26], Richard Pembridge [aged 26] and John Sully [aged 63].
The French army suffered significant casualties. King Philip "Fortunate" VI of France [aged 52] was wounded. William de Coucy [aged 60] and his son Enguerrand 6th Lord de Coucy [aged 33] and were killed.
Charles II Count Alençon [aged 49] was killed. His son Charles [aged 9] succeeded Count Alençon.
Louis Chatillon II Count Blois I Count Chatillon was killed. His son Louis succeeded III Count Blois.
Louis Dampierre II Count Nevers I Count Flanders [aged 42] was killed. His son Louis [aged 15] succeeded III Count Nevers, II Count Flanders.
King John I of Bohemia [aged 50] was killed. His son Charles [aged 30] succeeded IV King Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor Luxemburg. Blanche Valois Holy Roman Empress Luxemburg [aged 29] by marriage Holy Roman Empress Luxemburg.
Rudolph "Valiant" Metz I Duke Lorraine [aged 26] was killed. His son John succeeded I Duke Lorraine.
Jean IV de Harcourt [aged 39] was killed.
In or before 1347 [his brother-in-law] John Grey 2nd Baron Grey [aged 30] and [his sister] Maud Burghesh Baroness Grey Rotherfield [aged 31] were married. She by marriage Baroness Grey of Rotherfield. They were half fifth cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King John of England.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. In the same year, the Earl of Lancaster,1 the Barons of Stafford [aged 48] and Greystoke [aged 28], along with the heirs of the Lords Percy [aged 28] and Neville [aged 12], as well as Lord Furnival and Bartholomew de Burghersh [aged 62], together with many others, crossed over to Gascony around the Feast of All Saints [1st November 1349], to oppose the ravaging campaigns of John of Valois, son of the tyrant of the French, who was heavily harassing that duchy.
Eodem anno comes Lancastrie et barones Staffordie et de Greistoke, item heredes dominorum de Percy et de Neville atque dominus de Fornival et Bartholomeus de Burghasshe, cum multis aliis, circa festum Omnium Sanctorum transfretaverant in Vasconiam, posituri resistenciam debacacioni Iohannis de Valesio, filii tiranni Francorum, qui ducatum illum nimis infestavit.
Note 1. The earl of Lancaster was appointed lieutenant of Poitou on the 18th October 1349. Rymer's Fœdera 3.190. Knighton. William, lord Greystock, succeeded in 1323 and died in 1358. The heirs of Percy and Nevill were Henry, afterwards 3rd lord Percy, 1352-1368, who had fought at Crécy, and was brother-in-law of Lancaster; and John Nevill, who had been present with his father at Nevile's Cross, married Percy's sister, and became 3rd lord Nevill, 1367-1388. Thomas, lord Furnival, had also fought at Crécy, and died about 1364. Both Bartholomew, lord Burghersh, and his son [aged 21], of the same name, served in this campaign.
Annales of England by John Stow. This yeere, on Saint Georges day [23rd April 1350], the king held a great and solemne feast at his castle of Windsor, where he had augmented the chappel which Henry the first and other his progenitors, kings of England, had before erected, of eight chanons. He added to those eight chanons a deane and fifteene chanons more, and 24 poore and impotent knights, with other ministers and servants, as appeareth in his charter dated the two and twentieth of his reigne. Besides the king, there were other also that were contributors to the foundation of this colledge, as followeth: i. The sovereigne king Edward the third, 2. Edward, his eldest sonne, prince of Wales, 3. Henry, duke of Lancaster, 4. the earle of Warwicke [aged 37], 5. Captaine de Bouch [aged 19], 6. Ralph, earle of Stafford [aged 48], 7. William Montacute [aged 21], earle of Salisburie, 8. Roger, lorde Mortimer [aged 21], earle of March, 9. sir John de Lisle [aged 31], 10. sir Bartholomew Burwash [aged 22], 11. sir John Beauchampe [aged 34], 12. sir [his future brother-in-law] John Mahune [aged 30], 13. sir Hugh Courtney, 14. sir Thomas Holland [aged 36], 15. sir John Grey [aged 49], 16. sir Richard Fitz Simon, 17. sir Miles Stapleton [aged 30], 18. sir Thomas Walle [aged 47], 19. sir Hugh Wrothesley [aged 16], 20. sir Nele Loring [aged 30], 21. sir John Chandos [aged 30], 22. sir James de Audley [aged 32], 23. sir Othes Holland [aged 34], 24. sir Henry Eme, 25. sir Sechet Dabridgecourt [aged 20], 26. sir Wiliam Panell [aged 31]. All these, together with the king, were clothed in gownes of russet, poudered with garters blew, wearing the like garters also on their right legges, and mantels of blew with scutcheons of S. George. In this sort of apparell they, being bare-headed, heard masse, which was celebrated by Simon Islip, archbishop of Canterbury, and the bishops of Winchester and Excester, and afterwards they went to the feast, setting themselves orderly at the table, for the honor of the feast, which they named to be of S. George the martyr and the choosing of the knights of the Garter.
In August 1354 [his wife] Cecily Weyland [aged 40] died.
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
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On 3rd August 1355 Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 68] died at Dover, Kent [Map]. He was buried in the St Catherine Chantry at Lincoln Cathedral [Map] with his father and brother. His son Bartholomew [aged 27] succeeded 2nd Baron Burghesh.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. On Friday [20th November 1355], having been informed that the French were nearby and had formed themselves into five large battles, our forces advanced about one mile from their lodging and drew themselves up in a suitable field, prepared for battle. Thus, with the army arrayed, someone cried out that a hare had been roused; hearing this, the enemy sent out forty lancers, who, upon seeing the army drawn up in full order and quickly returning with this report, caused all the French to flee in great panic, as was reported by those captured in the pursuit. That day, Bartholomew de Burghersh [aged 27],1 John Chandos [aged 35], and James Audley [aged 37], leading a force of eighty lancers, attacked the rear of the French host, capturing thirty-two knights and squires, among them the Count of Roumania,2 and killing many baggage handlers, destroying their supplies. Later, the prince lodged at the town of Muwos, where four French men-at-arms who had fled into the church were captured by the English; they lost only their horses and arms. On Saturday, in rainy weather, they took a difficult and narrow road to the castle of Oradrie, where the prince spent the night, and the next morning had it burned.
Die Veneris, certificato quod Gallici in acies quinque magnas fuerant divisi de prope existentes, progressi nostri ad spacium unius miliaris de ospicio seipsos in campo apto ordinarunt ad preliandum. Itaque exercitu ordinato, quidam suscitatum leporem exclamarunt; quod audientes inimici emiserunt xl. lanceatos, per quos viso exercitu ordinato reversosque celeriter hec nunciantes, omnes fugerunt cum magno pavore, sicud retulerunt capti ex eiis in persecucione. Illo die Bartholomeus de Burghasche, Iohannes Chandos, et Iacobus Daudeleye, ad summam quater viginti lanceatorum ordinati discooperatores, accedentes ad caudam exercitus Gallicorum, captivarunt triginta duos milites et domicellos, et inter eos dominum comitem de Romenie; item, multos bigarios occiderunt, destruentes eorum victualia. Sero principe ospitato in villa de Muwos, quatuor Gallici armorum, Anglicos fugitivi in ecclesiam illius ville, equos et arma dumtaxat perdiderunt. Sabbato pluvioso carpserunt malum iter et strictum ad castrum de Oradrie, in quo princeps pernoctavit, et mane id combussit.
Note 1. The prince of Wales's letter to the bishop of Winchester (Deeds of King Edward III by Robert of Avesbury The two famous comrades of the Black Prince, sir John Chandos and sir James Audley, were both founders of the Garter. Chandos was mortally wounded in a skirmish near Lussac in Poitou, 31st December 1369.
Note 2. There was a seigneur de Romeny, but no count with that title.
On 19th September 1356 the army of Edward "Black Prince" [aged 26] defeated the French and Scottish army led by King John "The Good" II of France [aged 37] at the Battle of Poitiers
King John "The Good" II of France was captured by three captains including Ivon aka John Fane.
The the English army included: Bernard Brocas [aged 26], Thomas Felton [aged 26], James Audley [aged 38], Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick [aged 43], Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh [aged 28], Reginald Cobham 1st Baron Cobham [aged 61], [his future son-in-law] Edward Despencer 1st Baron Despencer, Baron Burghesh [aged 21], Ralph Ferrers [aged 27], William Scrope [aged 31], William Montagu 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 28], Walter Paveley 4th Baron Burghesh [aged 37], Robert Ufford 1st Earl Suffolk [aged 58], William Ufford 2nd Earl Suffolk [aged 18], John de Vere 7th Earl of Oxford [aged 44], John Willoughby 3rd Baron Willoughby [aged 33], Thomas Arderne [aged 19], Enion Sais Brecon, John Chandos [aged 36], Richard Pembridge [aged 36], Jean Grailly [aged 25], Robert de Fouleshurst [aged 26] and John Sully [aged 73]
John Savile of Shelley and Golcar [aged 31] probably fought having received letters of protection to travel overseas.
Hugh Courtenay 2nd or 10th Earl Devon [aged 53] protected the baggage train.
The French and Scottish army included: King John "The Good" II of France, Philip "Bold" Valois II Duke Burgundy [aged 14], Jean Bourbon I Count La Marche [aged 12], Archibald "Grim" Douglas 3rd Earl Douglas [aged 26], John "Sans Terre" Artois 1st Count of Eu [aged 35]; all captured.
Guichard d'Angle 1st Earl Huntingdon and William Douglas 1st Earl Douglas [aged 33] fought.
Peter Bourbon Duke Bourbon [aged 45] was killed. His son Louis [aged 19] succeeded II Duke Bourbon.
Gauthier VI Comte de Brienne [aged 54] was killed.
In or before 1357 [his brother-in-law] John Mohun 2nd Baron Mohun of Dunster [aged 36] and [his sister] Joan Burghesh Baroness Mohun [aged 37] were married. She by marriage Baroness Mohun of Dunster. They were fifth cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King John of England.
On 1st May 1360 [his mother] Elizabeth Verdun Baroness Burghesh [aged 60] died. She was buried at Croxden Abbey, Staffordshire [Map].
On 5th April 1369 Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh [aged 41] died. He was buried at Lady Chapel Walsingham Priory. His daughter Elizabeth [aged 27] succeeded 3rd Baroness Burghesh.
Kings Wessex: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 6 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 12 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 7 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 5 Grand Son of King John of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 7 Grand Son of King David I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 11 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 15 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 7 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Grandfather: Robert Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh 
father: Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh
Great x 1 Grandfather: Gunselin Badlesmere 
Grandmother: Maud Badlesmere Baroness Burghesh
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Fitzbernard
Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh 5 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Theobald Walter 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Theobald Butler 
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Vavasour 
Great x 2 Grandfather: John "The Botiller" Verdun 
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Verdun
Great x 3 Grandmother: Rohesia Verdun
Great x 1 Grandfather: Theobald Verdun 1st Lord Verdun 9 x Great Grandson of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Lacy Lord Meath 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gilbert Lacy 7 x Great Grandson of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret de Braose 
6 x Great Granddaughter of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret "Lady of Dulek" Lacy 8 x Great Granddaughter of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Bigod 3rd Earl Norfolk 
6 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Bigod 7 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Marshal Countess Norfolk and Surrey 
6 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Grandfather: Theobald Verdun 2nd Lord Verdun 5 x Great Grandson of King David I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Bohun 1st Earl Hereford 
Great Grandson of King David I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun 2nd Earl Hereford 1st Earl Essex 2 x Great Grandson of King David I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Mandeville Countess Hereford 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun 3 x Great Grandson of King David I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Raoul Lusignan Count of Eu 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Matilda Lusignan Countess Hereford and Essex
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alix Eu
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margery Bohun Lady Verdun 4 x Great Granddaughter of King David I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Reginald de Braose 8th Baron Abergavenny 6th Baron Bramber 6 x Great Grandson of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Great x 3 Grandfather: William de Braose 9th Baron Abergavenny 7th Baron Bramber 7 x Great Grandson of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Great x 4 Grandmother: Graecia Briwere
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor de Braose 7 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eva Marshal 6 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke 5 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
mother: Elizabeth Verdun Baroness Burghesh 4 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Mortimer 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Mortimer
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Ferrers 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Mortimer 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Llewellyn "The Great" Aberffraw Grandson of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Great x 3 Grandmother: Gwladus verch Llewelyn "Dark Eyed" Aberffraw Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Plantagenet 
daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edmund Mortimer 2nd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore 2 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Reginald de Braose 8th Baron Abergavenny 6th Baron Bramber 6 x Great Grandson of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Great x 3 Grandfather: William de Braose 9th Baron Abergavenny 7th Baron Bramber 7 x Great Grandson of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Great x 4 Grandmother: Graecia Briwere
Great x 2 Grandmother: Maud de Braose 7 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eva Marshal 6 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke 5 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Grandmother: Maud Mortimer Lady Verdun 3 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Fiennes 
8 x Great Grandson of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Great x 3 Grandfather: Enguerrand Ingleram Fiennes 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Dammartin 10 x Great Granddaughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Fiennes 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Provence 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Fiennes 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John de Brienne I King Jerusalem
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Beaumont 
2 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Beregaria Ivrea 
Great Granddaughter of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 2 Grandmother: Blanche Beaumont 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Chateaudun VI Viscount Châteaudun
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jeanne Chateaudun
Great x 4 Grandmother: Clemence Roches Countess Blois