He had allied himself to the King's favourite Hugh le Despenser, and agreed to the marriage of his son to Despenser's granddaughter.
Although very hostile to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, Bartholomew helped to make peace between the king and the earl in 1318, and was a member of the middle party which detested alike Edward's minions, like the Despensers, and his violent enemies like Lancaster.
The club badge is a representation of the Seal of the Llantrisant Town Trust representing the arms of the Consul, De Clare and Despenser families who had historical connections with Llantrisant.
Hugh Masekela | Hugh Jackman | Hugh Grant | Hugh Laurie | Hugh Hefner | Hugh | Hugh O'Brian | Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster | Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland | Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland | Hugh Martin | Hugh Dennis | Hugh Walpole | Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone | Hugh de Lacy | St Hugh's College, Oxford | Hugh Wheeler | Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard | Hugh Trenchard | Hugh Pughe Lloyd | Hugh MacDiarmid | Hugh Lloyd | Hugh Greene | Hugh Carey | Hugh Wolff | Hugh Trevor-Roper | Hugh Shelton | Hugh Price Hughes | Hugh O'Neill | Hugh Latimer |
By the mid-1320s, however, England was in the grip of the oppressive rule of the Marcher lords Hugh le Despenser the older and his son Hugh Despenser the younger, the royal favourites of King Edward II.