Catalogue description HARFLEUR (FRANCE)

The charter is dated shortly after the conquest of Normandy by Henry V and during the English occupation. Sir William Phelip (d. 1441), captain of Harfleur 1421-2, had married Joan, one of the two daughters and coheirs of Thomas Lord Bardolf, and was sometimes known as Lord Bardolf. Joan died in 1447 and her sister, without issue, in 1453. Joan's only child was Elizabeth, who married John Viscount Beaumont and died before her father, leaving a son William Beaumont (also occasionally called Lord Bardolf) as the Bardolf heir.[GEC i 420-1] John Beaumont's second wife was Katherine Nevill, duchess of Norfolk, who may be the link between the charter and the Berkeleys. Phelip was only a witness to the charter, and there is nothing to suggest that property in Harfleur passed to the Beaumonts.