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BARONY OF BARDOLPH (VI, 1)

SIR WILLIAM PHELIP, of Dennington, co. Suffolk, Erpingham, co. Norfolk, &c., son and heir of Sir William Phelip, of Dennington, by Julian, daughter and in her issue heir of Sir Robert ERPINGHAM, of Erpingham, was born 1383.

He married, before 1407, Joan, 2nd and youngest of the two daughters and coheirs of Thomas (BARDOLF), LORD BARDOLF, and Amice. He served at Agincourt, 25 October 1415, and again in Normandy, and, during his absence there, was, in 1418 or early in 1419, elected K.G. In 1421-22 he was Captain of Harfleur, and subsequently Treasurer of the Household to Henry V. He was P.C. and Chamberlain to Henry VI, and on 13 November 1437 is thought by some to have been created a Baron, as after this date he is sometimes described as William Phelip, LORD BARDOLF. His name, however, does not appear on the list of Peers summoned to Parliament 26 September 1439. He died s.p.m., 6 June 1441, when any peerage, if created by patent, would have become extinct. He was buried, under a sumptuous monument, at Dennington. His widow who was born and baptised 11 November 1390, at Tattershall Castle, co. Lincoln, died 12 March 1446/7, and was buried with her husband (d). [Complete Peerage I:420-21, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(d) The representation of any Barony in fee which might have been acquired (de nova) by her husband, but not that of the old Barony of Bardolf, vested on her death in the son and heir of her only daughter and heir, Elizabeth, wife of John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont, afterwards (1460), 2nd Viscount Beaumont, who, as early as 1448, and when but a boy, is styled, v.p., in the Charter Roll, 8 Nov 1448, dominus de Bardolf, and who dsp. 1507, being called "Viscount Beaumont and Lorde Bardolfe" on his tomb in Wivenhoe church, Essex, and elsewhere. It was not, however, till the death, 6 Nov 1453, of Anne, Lady Cobham, the elder sister of his mother, that he represented the entirety of this Barony. The representatives in 1910, are (1) the 2 daughters and coheirs of the 10th Lord Beaumont and (2) the Earl of Ablingdon, between whom any Barony of Bardolf, that may be held to have been created in 1299, is (subject to the Attainder) in abeyance.