James Audley
Sir James Audley | |
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Born | 1318 |
Died | 1369 (aged 50–51) Fontenay-le-Comte |
Known for | One of the original knights, or founders, of the Order of the Garter |
Sir James Audley, KG (also Audeley; c. 1318 – 1369) was one of the original knights, or founders, of the Order of the Garter. He was the eldest son of Sir James Audley of Audley in Staffordshire.
Biography
When the order of the Garter was founded, he was initiated as one of its first members and his stall in
At the
In 1359 he was one of the leaders of an expedition into France. In 1360 he took the fortress of Chaven in Brittany, as well as the castle of Ferte-sous-Jouarre, and was present at Calais when peace was made between England and France in October 1360. He was afterwards governor of Aquitaine and great seneschal of Poitou, and took part in the capture of the town of La Roche-sur-Yon by Edmund, earl of Cambridge.[2] He died in 1369 at Fontenay-le-Comte, where he had gone to reside, and was buried at Poitiers.[4]
Arms
"Gules fretty Or" – Henry de Aldithley (or Audley), 1st in the line of Lord Audeley who died in 1246, had a seal with a fretty shield and his descendants bore a shield described as 'gules fretty or'. That is a red shield with a gold lattice. Information from Complete Peerage Vol 1 page 337 by G E Cokayne.
Notes
- ISBN 9781846153709.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 898.
- ^ Froissart, iii. p. 197.
- ^ Michael Jones, ‘Audley, Sir James (c.1318–1369)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed 1 March 2009
Attribution
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Audley, Sir James". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 898. Endnotes
- Jean Froissart, Chroniques, translated by Thomas Johnes (Hafod, 1810);
- George Frederick Beltz, Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (London, 1841).
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