Bardolph Ravensworth Lord of Ravenswath

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 226:24, Bardolf, natural son of Eudes I, ancestor of the Lords Fitz Hugh of Ravensworth; brother of Bodin, who held Ravensworth, Mickleton, Tomanckirk, etc, in Domesday Book, 1086. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ⁹⁶⁷
Bardolph, Lord of Ravenswath and other manors in Richamondshire, was a great landowner in Yorkshire, who gave a carucate of land and the churches of Patrick Brampton and Ravenswath in pure alms to the Abbey of St. Mary's at York. In his old age, when weary of the world and its trouble, he became a monk and retired to the Abbey, of which he had been a benefactor. He was succeeded by his son and hair, Akaris, or Acarius Fitz Bardolph.

~ Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, p. 104

• Background Information: ⁷⁸⁰
Eschecol, or Ascough, was granted after 1086 by Alan, earl of Richmond, to Bardolf, his brother, father of Akaris, ancestor of the Barons Fitz Hugh of Ravensworth.

~ The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States of America, p. 144

• Background Information: ¹⁴¹
Hervey was forester of the New Forest and Arkengarthale, Yorkshire, by the grant of Conan, Duke of Brittany, and son and heir of Akaris Fitz Bardof, which Bardolf was brother of Bodin, who held Ravensworth, Micleton, Romaldkirk &c according to the Domesday Survey.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. V, (Fitz Henry), pp. 416-417, footnote (d)

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Bardulf was the son the illegitimate son of Eudes de Bretagne. "'Comes Alanus Rufus' donated property to Swavesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, for the soul of "patris sui Eudonis comitis", by undated charter witnessed by "…Ribaldus et Bardulfus fratres comitis…" [Dugdale Monasticon VI.2, Swavesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire I, p. 1001]."