Bartholomew III was a male Barn Owl, or Tyto alba, and the mate of an unnamed female, with whom he born an egg that would hatch into the owl that would later become known as Uglamore. He died as a result of unconfirmed circumstances soon after his son's hatching.
History[]
Bartholomew III was hatched to a family of Barn Owls that apparently lived in the Shadow Forest. As had his father before him, Bartholomew bore the same name that had been bestowed on his grandfather, thus making his third in his family to bear the name. Bartholomew had at least one sibling: a brother whose son would also share to name 'Bartholomew'.
Eventually, Bartholomew met a female who would eventually become his mate and the two made their home in a pine hollow located by a lake on the southern fringes of the Shadow Forest. Bartholomew's mate eventually laid an egg which contained a male hatchling. Just as his father had before him and grandfather before him, Bartholomew named his son Bartholomew IV, which the young Bartholomew would greatly resent in later years. Bartholomew's mate was apparently a believer in the brutal ideologies of fervent Barn Owl supremacy, though it is unconfirmed if Bartholomew entertained a similar feeling of Tyto supremacists.
While his son was a fledgling still yet to pass his First-Meat-On-Bones Ceremony, Bartholomew died from unclear circumstances, after which his mate and their child left the Shadow Forest to join the ranks of a group calling themselves the Tytonic Union of Pure Ones.
Lost Tales of Ga'Hoole[]
Uglamore (as Bartholomew's son, Batholomew IV, was now known) occasionally thinks of his father while looking back on his childhood and early life in the Pure Ones, though not with the same degree as that which he mentioned his mother. These recollections of the sire that had perished so early in his life were at the most during a recount of his antipathy towards his birth name, thinking back on when his family become members of the Pure Ones and recalling his unwilling murder of his paternal cousin, Bartholomew V. The main exception to this rule was when Uglamore considered the similarities between himself and Coryn, including that neither knew their deceased fathers well.