Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester

{{Infobox peer

|name =Hugh de Audley

|image =Arms of Audley.svg

|image_size = 150px

|caption = Arms of Audley: Gules, a fret or

|other_titles =Lord of the Manor of ChiltonPage, W. (1927) Parishes: Chilton. A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4. Ed. London, England: Victoria County History.
Lord of the Manor of Gratton

|spouse =Margaret de ClareHammond, 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.Weis, F. L., Sheppard, W. L., & Beall, W. R. (1999). The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years. Genealogical Publishing Com.

|issue =Margaret de Audley

|father =Hugh de Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Stratton Audley

|mother =Isolt Mortimer

|noble family = de Audley

|birth_date = c. 1291

|birth_place = Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England

|death_date = 10 November 1347

|death_place = Kent, England

|place of burial =Tonbridge Priory, Kent, England

|}}

Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester, 1st Baron Audley (c. 1291 – 10 November 1347) of Stratton Audley in Oxfordshire, and of Gratton in Staffordshire, served as Sheriff of Rutland and was the English Ambassador to France in 1341.J. R. Maddicott, 'Audley, Hugh, earl of Gloucester (c. 1291–1347)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. He was buried in Tonbridge Priory.

Origins

Hugh was born at Stratton Audley, the second son of Hugh de Audley (c. 1267 – c. 1326) of Stratton Audley by his wife Isolde (Iseult) le Rous (c. 1260 – 1338), daughter of Sir Roger le Rous and Eleanor de Avenbury and the widow of Sir Walter de Balun. The 1st Earl had siblings including John de Audley (born c. 1293) and Alice de Audley (born c. 1304) who married firstly Ralph de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke and later Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby.

Marriage

Hugh married Margaret de Clare,{{sfn|Holmes|1955|p=207}} widow of Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, who was the favourite (and possibly lover) of King Edward II of England. As Margaret was a sister of Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, who was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, she brought the Gloucester estates to her husband.{{sfn|Brown|1928|p=588}}{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Gloucester, Earls and Dukes of|volume=12|page=128}} By Margaret he had a daughter, Margaret de Audley (born c. 1318 in Stafford), who was abducted as his wife by Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford.{{sfn|Ward|2013|p=15}}

Career

Following his marriage, he was created Earl of Gloucester by King Edward III. He served as Sheriff of Rutland from 1316 to 1322 and again from 1327 to 1347.Fuller, T. (2013). The history of the worthies of England, Volume 3. Hardpress. {{ISBN|9781313240130}}.

External links

[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol9/pp54-66 Inquisition Post Mortem]Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem - Edward III

References

Sources

{{cite journal |last=Brown |first=Carleton |title=A Thirteenth-Century Manuscript from Llanthony Priory |journal=Speculum |volume=3 |number=4 (Oct.) |year= 1928 |pages=587-595 }}
{{cite journal |last=Holmes |first=G.A. |title=A Protest against the Despensers, 1326 |journal=Speculum |volume=30 |number=2 (Apr) |year=1955 |pages=207-212 }}
{{cite book |last=Ward |first=Jennifer C. |title=English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 }}

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20091026101328/http://geocities.com/missourimule_2000/audley.html de Audley family genealogy]
[https://ourfolkgen.com/ourfolk/descendants.htm?id=2330 de Audley family genealogy at OurFolkGen.com]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20100627180457/http://www.madeleyvillage.co.uk/heighleycastle.htm Heighley Castle, Madeley Staffordshire - home of the Audley family] Madeley village website with history of Audley family

Category:1290s births

Category:1347 deaths

Category:Year of birth uncertain

Category:Anglo-Normans

Category:Nobility from Oxfordshire

Category:People from Stafford

Category:High sheriffs of Rutland

Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester

Category:Burials at Tonbridge Priory, Kent

Category:14th-century English diplomats

Category:Ambassadors of England to France

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