I 30 EPONYMOUS FAMILIES OF DORSET. 



apparently well fitted for the times he lived in. His life was not 

 without incident. In 1294 he accompanied King Ed. I. to 

 Gascony, and was taken prisoner at the siege of Risunce, but 

 was soon released, and after the Gascon campaign he attended 

 the King in his expedition to Scotland, 29 Edw. L, and was 

 present at the siege of Caerlaverock in 1300. He married 

 Isabel, daughter and heiress of Robert de Aquilon, with whom 

 he acquired estates in the south of England, at Emsworth and 

 Warbledon. He died in the 32nd of Edward L, leaving two 

 sons, of whom probably William the younger succeeded to his 

 mother's south country estates,* in addition to those which the 

 heiress of the Dorset family of Damory had brought to his 

 grandfather, and became the ancestor of the Bardolfs of Dorset. 

 The Barony, by writ, of Bardolf continued in the line of the elder 

 brother, Thomas, until the reign of Henry IV., when it was 

 forfeited by attainder. 



Perhaps the contempt felt for a disgraced baron is reflected in 

 Shakespeare's disparaging use of this name as that of one of 

 Falstaff's companions. 



Supposing the above suggestion to be correct as to the 

 disposal of Hugh Lord Bardolfs property, Drogo de Bardolf, of 

 Baadolfeston, would probably be a grandson of the said Hugh, 

 and, as he with his wife gave a house, mill, and lands to the 

 Abbey of Hyde in Winchester, it would seem that they retained 

 their interests in Hampshire that they had derived from the De 

 Aquilon heiress. It is noticeable, too, that their estate of 

 Burdolfeston was held under the Prior of a Hampshire religious 

 house, that of Twynham, now Christchurch. 



It may be noted also that, of the four recorded shields of the 

 east country Bardolfs, no two are identical, but all have three 

 charges, like the coat of the Dorset family. None of them, 

 however, had reached that pitch of audacious disregard of 

 heraldic rules, which distinguishes the shield of the Dorset 

 Bardolfs, who bore on a silver shield three gold cups, a 



* Roll of Caerlaverock. 



