James Audley, 3rd Baron Audley of Heleigh

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James Audley, 3rd Baron Audley of Heleigh (according to another count also 2nd Baron Audley ) (born January 8, 1312 in Knesall , Nottinghamshire , † April 1, 1386 ) was an English magnate .

Origin and heritage

James Audley came from the English noble Audley family . He was the only son of Nicholas Audley, 2nd Baron Audley of Heleigh and his wife Joan , the widow of the Earl of Lincoln . He was on the estate of Knesall born in Nottinghamshire, which for Wittum was one from her first marriage to his mother. His father died in 1316, so that he became the heir of his possessions in Staffordshire and Shropshire in the Welsh Marches . When he was a minor, Roger Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer, became his guardian who also acquired the right to marry. When Mortimer was imprisoned as a traitor in the Tower after the failed rebellion of the Earl of Lancaster in 1322 , Ralph de Camoys became the new guardian of James until Mortimer won power in England through the overthrow of King Edward II in September 1326.

After the childless death of his uncle William Martin, 2nd Baron Martin , his mother's only brother, Audley became joint heirs of the Martin family's estates in 1326. When his aunt Eleanor Martin, Lady Columbers died childless in 1343, Audley became the sole heir of the Martins, so that he inherited extensive estates in Devon and South West Wales. After the death of his cousin Alice de Lacy in 1348 he inherited the estates from her mother Margaret Longespée, 4th Countess of Salisbury .

Life

Audley served King Edward III. in the Second Scottish War of Independence and in the Hundred Years War in France. In Scotland he was administrator of Berwick in 1342 . In Gascony in south-west France, he fought in 1345 with a contingent of 40 men in arms under the command of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster , the brother-in-law of his son Nicholas . In 1346 he took part under the command of the Earl of Arundel in the king's campaign in northern France and in the battle of Crécy . In 1348 Audley was arrested for not accepting an invitation from the King to Parliament . In 1353 the heir to the throne Edward , the Black Prince , was a guest at his headquarters in Heighley Castle in Staffordshire, as did his son King Richard II in 1385. In 1353 he was exempted from parliamentary participation for life.

Audley's household was considered educated, he owned several breviaries and other books. The blind poet John Audley was certainly part of his family. In the 1330s Audley left the parish of Audley expand as a family tomb. However, the burial niches were not used by his family, Audley was buried in the Hulton Abbey Family Foundation .

Marriage and offspring

Audley married Joan Mortimer in May 1328 in Hereford , the second or third eldest daughter of his guardian Roger Mortimer and his wife Joan de Geneville . He had several children with his wife, including:

In his second marriage, before December 1351, he married Isabel le Strange († after 1366), a daughter of Roger Lestrange, 5th Baron Strange of Knockin . He had several children with her:

  • Thomas Audley
  • Rowland Audley
  • James Audley
  • Margery Audley ∞ Fulk FitzWarin
  • Katharine Audley ∞ Thomas Spigurnel

His heir became his son Nicholas, the only one of his sons who had survived him. After his childless death in 1391, his lands fell to his daughters or their heirs. The title of Baron Audley of Heleigh was ultimately bestowed on the Tuchet family, descendants of his daughter Joan.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thelma W. Lancaster: The barons Audley of Heley Castle and Hulton Abbey . In: Transactions of the North Staffordshire Field Club, new ser., 19 (1993/1994), p. 23
  2. ↑ JR Maddicott: Alice Lacy. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  3. ^ Thelma W. Lancaster: The barons Audley of Heley Castle and Hulton Abbey . In: Transactions of the North Staffordshire Field Club, new ser., 19 (1993/1994), p. 24
predecessor Office successor
Nicholas Audley Baron Audley of Heleigh
1316-1386 		Nicholas Audley
personal data
SURNAME Audley, James, 3rd Baron Audley of Heleigh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Audley, James, 2nd Baron Audley of Heleigh; Audley of Heleigh, James Audley, 3rd Baron of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English magnate
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1312
PLACE OF BIRTH Knesall , Nottinghamshire
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1386