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1220 - 1272 (52 years)
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Name |
James de Audley |
Title |
Baron |
Suffix |
Knight |
Birth |
1220 |
Heleighley Castle, Staffordshire, England [1, 2, 3, 4] |
- Heighley Castle (or Heleigh Castle) is a ruined medieval castle near Madeley, Staffordshire. The castle was completed by the Audley family in 1233 and for over 300 years was one of their ancestral homes. It was held for Charles I during the English Civil War and was destroyed by Parliamentary forces in the 1640s. The ruinous remains comprise masonry fragments, mostly overgrown by vegetation. The site is protected by Grade II listed building status and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The castle is privately owned and is not open to visitors.
Heleigh Castle was built by Henry de Aldithley (c.1175-1246) (later "de Audley"), Sheriff of Shropshire 1227-1232. He also built the nearby Red Castle, Shropshire. He endowed the nearby Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary at Hulton in 1223, and donated to it a large amount of land, some of which was an inheritance from his mother and some of which was purchased.
... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heighley_Castle
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Gender |
Male |
Occupation |
Justiciar of Ireland [3, 4] |
Death |
11 Jun 1272 |
Ireland [1, 3, 4, 5] |
Person ID |
I43141 |
The Hennessee Family |
Last Modified |
22 Nov 2018 |
Family |
Ela Longespee, b. ~ 1228, (Salisbury, Wiltshire) England d. 22 Nov 1299 (Age ~ 71 years) |
Marriage |
1244 [1, 2] |
Children |
| 1. Sir Nicholas de Audley, b. Bef 1258, Heleighley Castle, Staffordshire, England d. 28 Aug 1299, Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 41 years) |
| 2. Maud Audley, b. ~ 1260, Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England |
| 3. Sir Hugh de Audley, Knight, 1st Baron Audley of Stratton, b. 1267, Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England d. Bef 1326 (Age 58 years) |
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Family ID |
F15637 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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Notes |
- James de Audley (1220 - 1272), or James de Aldithel and Alditheley, was an English baron.[1]
Biography
Audley was born in 1220 to Henry de Audley, and was, like him, a lord-marcher. In 1257 he accompanied Richard, king of the Romans, to his coronation at Aachen (Matt. Paris), sailing on 29 April (Rymer) and returning to England in the autumn to take part in the Welsh campaign (1257-1260).
In the following year (1258) he was one of the royalist members of the council of fifteen nominated by the Provisions of Oxford, and witnessed, as 'James of Aldithel,' their confirmation by the king (18 Oct.).
He also, with his brother-in-law, Peter de Montfort, was appointed commissioner to treat with Llewelyn (18 Aug.), and two years later he acted as an itinerant justice.
On Llewelyn of Wales attacking Mortimer, a royalist marcher, Audley joined Prince Edward at Hereford, 9 January 1263 to resist the invasion. But the barons, coming to Llewelyn's assistance, dispersed the royalist forces, and seized on his castles and estates.
He is wrongly said by Dugdale and Foss to have been made 'justice of Ireland' in this year, but in December he was one of the royalist sureties in the appeal to Louis of France.
At the time of the battle of Lewes (May 1264) he was in arms for the king on the Welsh marches (Matthew Paris), and he was one of the first to rise against the government of Simon de Montfort.
On Gloucester embracing the royal cause, early in 1265, Audley joined him with the other marchers, and took part in the campaign of Evesham and the overthrow of the baronial party.
He appears to have gone on a pilgrimage to Galicia in 1268, and also, it is stated, to Palestine in 1270; but though his name occurs among the 'Crucesignati' of 21 May 1270, it is clear that he never went, for he was appointed justiciary of Ireland a few months later, his name first occurring in connection with that office 5 September 1270.
He also served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire and Shropshire in 1261 and 1270.[2] During his tenure as Justiciar of Ireland he led several expeditions against 'the Irish rebels,' but died by 'breaking his neck' about 11 June 1272 (when he is last mentioned as justiciary), and was succeeded by his son James, who did homage 29 July 1272.
References
Jump up ^ "(Sir) James DE AUDLEY Knight, Justiciar of Ireland". washington.ancestryregister.com. Archived from the original on March 20, 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
Jump up ^ Collections for a history of Staffordshire. Staffordshire Record Society. 1912. p. 276.
end of biography [3]
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- [S7022] William Longespâee (circa 1176 - 7 March 1226), http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_78.html.
- [S8629] "Thomas Everingham", ahnentafel, abstracted November 28, 2015 by David A. Hennessee, http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/a.
- [S9090] "James de Audley", biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_de_Audley, accessed February 20, 2016 by David A. Henn.
- [S9092] "Some Descendants of (Sir) James DE AUDLEY Knight, Justiciar of Ireland (1220 - 1272)", http://web.archive.org/web/20150.
- [S8150] "Sir. James Touchet, Baron (~ 1392-1459)" Pedigree-Ahnentafel, abstracted October 16, 2015, http://www.ourfamilyhistorie.
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