Hugh de Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Stratton Audley
Hugh de Audley | |
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| 1st Baron Audley of Stratton Audley | |
 Arms of Audley of Stratton Audley: Gules, a fret Or | |
| Died | 1325 Wallingford Castle, Oxford, England |
| Noble family | de Audley |
| Father | James Audley |
Sir Hugh de Audley of Stratton Audley (c. 1267 – 1325), Lord of
Biography
Hugh was the fifth and youngest son of
Audley was created Baron Audley of Stratton Audley by writ in 1321. Hugh and his younger son, also named Hugh, took part in the rebellion of the lords of the Welsh Marches against Hugh Despenser the Younger in 1321. After initial successes, Audley surrendered with his ally Maurice de Berkeley on 6 February 1322. He was imprisoned in Wallingford Castle, where the younger Hugh joined him a few weeks later after the Battle of Boroughbridge. An attempt to free prisoners from the castle in 1323 ultimately failed. Hugh died while imprisoned at the castle in 1325.
Family
He married, in 1288, Isolde,[2] the widow of Walter de Balun. She was the daughter of Roger le Rous and Alianore de Avenbury.[3] They had the following known issue:
- James de Audley (died 1334), with his partner Eve de Clavering, had two illegitimate children, Peter and James.
- Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley.
- Alice de Audley (died 1374) married firstly Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby, and had children with both spouses.
Citations
- ^ Watson, p.xvii.
- ^ J. R. Maddicott, 'Audley, Hugh, earl of Gloucester (c. 1291–1347)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- ^ Hammond, P. W. (1998). The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda.
References
- Watson, Fiona (1998). Under The Hammer: Edward I and Scotland, 1286-1306. East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press. ISBN 1862320209.
- Natalie Fryde, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-521-54806-3
- Seymour Phillips, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. ISBN 0-19-822359-5