John Bardell

Sir John Bardell (624 - 664) was a Faramondian, and later Dunn, minor nobleman. He was the head of House Bardell between the Sack of Berham in 660 - in which Sir John took part - and his death in 664.
Sir John was the eldest of two sons, and inherited his father's hereditary position of Captain of the Berham Guard in 650 when his father became the head of the household.
He is known for his role in the Sack of Berham - Sir John acted as the second-in-command to King Henry Erlinghard during the siege and sack, and escaped a death by burning only because he was too slow to reach the throne room before King Henry's personal guard locked the doors. He was taken hostage by Sultan Abdalla the Lion following the siege, and was ransomed back to his homeland in 661 at the end of the war.
Here he took over his now-late father's position as head of House Bardell. He managed to track down his younger brother Henry Bardell and build the house up from the ashes. It was to Henry and his descendants the mantle passed in 664 when Sir John died of an unknown illness - he had married young but his wife never produced an heir before her death in the Sack.
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