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Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf

1301 – 1408

English noble

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Lived 1301 – 1408 (aged 106–107). Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf was a military personnel.

Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf (22 December 1369 – 19 February 1408) was an English baron who was the Lord of Wormegay in Norfolk, of Shelford and Stoke Bardolph in Nottinghamshire, and of Hallaton (Hallughton) in Leicestershire, among others, and was "a person of especial eminence in his time".

A supporter of the rebellion of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, against King Henry IV of England after the death of Percy's son Harry Hotspur, he died from wounds received at the Battle of Bramham Moor.

Life The eldest son of William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf of Wormegay and his wife Agnes de Poynings, Thomas inherited his father's titles as the 5th Baron Bardolf. He was summoned to the Parliament of England from 12 September 1390 to 25 August 1404.

In 1405 he joined Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland in insurrection against King Henry IV. But their allies Thomas Mowbray (Earl Marshall), and Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York, were defeated in Yorkshire by John of Lancaster and the Earl of Westmorland, and Bardolf and Northumberland fled to Scotland.

In 1408, Bardolf followed Northumberland in a new invasion of England from Scotland. But at the Battle of Bramham Moor, the rebels suffered a total defeat. Northumberland was slain, and Lord Bardolf was "so much hurt" that he died of his wounds soon after. and Joan (with her husband Sir William Phelip),

Arms Bardolf’s coat of arms was blazoned Azure, three cinquefoils, or, meaning three gold cinquefoil flowers on a blue shield.

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English noble

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Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf was born in 1301.

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Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf died on 19 February 1408 in Yorkshire.

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Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf was a military personnel.

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· Wikidata: Q7787379

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