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Sir Bartholomew BurghershSir Bartholomew Burghersh, 3rd Baron of Verdon (19); Founder member of the Knights of the Garter in 1348, Lord Justice of Ireland, married first "Lady Maude Mortimer" (19), daughter of "Sir Edmund Mortimer", Baron of Wigmore (20).) His daughter was "Lady Elizabeth Burghersh" (18) who married Maurice Fitzgerald, 4th Earl of Kildare (18). Sir Bartholomew Burghersh was a famous knight, as noted in the following book. From A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? by Simon Schama, first printed in 2000 (Page 222, Year 1348): "The king of England was supposed to be a doctor. More than any other of his predecessors, Edward III liked to 'touch for the king's evil,' using his sacred magic to heal thousands of sufferers from scrofula at a time. But this was not a malady but a plague, and in the high summer of his long reign, Edward III's mind was on other matters: the inaugural ceremonies of the Order of the Garter, for example. Edward founded the order, which was bestowed on knights and nobles who had distinguished themselves as valiant companions-in-arms, imagining it as a pious company, the reincarnation, of course, of the knights of the Holy Grail. So, a new chapel, a place of devotion and beauty, had to be built for its solemnities at Windsor [Windsor Castle]. It would be dedicated to St. George, the late third-century dragon-slayer who had been the patron saint of the Byzantine armies and whose cult had been adopted by the English crusaders. For the reredos screen at the back of the altar alone, immense quantities of pure white Nottinghamshire alabaster were used, transported to Windsor on ten enormous wagons, pulled by eighty horses. On the feast of St. Lawrence, 10 August 1348, the founder-knights, Edward's Bediveres and Percivals -- in fact, Sir John Grey and Sir Miles Stapleton, Sir Bartholomew Burghersh and Sir James d'Audeley, together with twenty-two more -- all clad in blue robes and sporting their badges, filed into the chapel in pairs, the lines parting to seat themselves behind either the king or the Black Prince. They faced each other across the chapel like the opposing tournament teams they were and attended to the anthems, the pieties and the blessings. As they looked at the stone carving of St. George, they must have inwardly rejoiced that he had proved too strong for the likes of the opposition, the patron saints of France and Scotland, St. Denis and St. Andrew." On page 241, it states, "And one of the founder members of the "Order of the Garter", Sir Bartholomew Burghersh, got 6000 pounds Sterling from the king for handing over his prisoner, the Count of Ventadour." This Sir Bartholomew Burghersh is a direct ancestor, my great (times 19)-grandfather. Return to the Genealogy Overview page or the Indexes on the Detail page.
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