Bartholomew de Glanville

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁹⁶
Sir Bartholomew de Glanville, Feudal Lord of Bromhole, Bacton, Paston, Ceswick and Honing, Etc.

Bartholomew de Glanville succeeded his father Earl William in the Barony. He not only confirmed the grants his father made to Churches and Abbeys, he added considerably to them. In the years 1169 and 1175 he was Viscount or High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Bartholomew de Glanville erected a castle at Orford, twenty miles from Ipswich, during the time of Henry II. He resided at this castle during 1167.

In 1171, when King Henry II went to Ireland, Bartholomew de Glanville, Wimar the chaplain and William Bardul render their account for 320 hogs sent to the army in Ireland, 15 days' pay to 36 masters and 468 equippers, making bridges, hurdles and other ship's apparel and six handmills and their appendages. This account was paid to them by King's Writ. [Pipe, 17 H.II, Rot.1]

A fine was levied between Bartholomew and his wife Isabella and Richard de Berking, tenant of 80 of land in the Manor Emneth, as dowry of Isabella which she had received from her former husband. He also witnessed his relative Stephen de Sackville's grant to the Prior of Mendham, which had be founded by William de Huntingfield. By Isabella, he left issue two son, William de Glanville and Geoffrey de Glanville.

~Records of the Anglo Norman House of Glanville from A.D. 1050 to 1880, pp. 8-10

Bartholomew married Isabella.⁹⁹⁶