Audley family

James de Alditheley was a great favourite of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, at whose coronation as king of Almaigne he assisted. This nobleman had livery of his lands in 1247, and was constituted in two years afterwards constable of Newcastle-under-Lyne. Being one of the lords-marchers he was actively employed for some years against the Welsh and was appointed governor of the castles of Salop and Bridgenorth and sheriff of the counties of Salop and Stafford. In 1263 he was made justice of Ireland; and in the same year, upon the misunderstanding between the king and the barons regarding the provisions of Oxford, being referred to arbitration of the monarch of France, he was one of the noblemen who undertook for the king therein.

The next year we find him with Roger de Mortimer and the other barons-marchers giving battle to Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, and afterwards joining the Earl of Gloucester at Evesham in rescuing the king, who had become captive to the Earl of Leicester at the battle of Lewes. In 1268, his lordship performed a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in Galicia, and the following year embarked in the Crusade. His death, occasioned by breaking his neck, occurred soon afterwards in 1271. ... more

Margaret Audley, wife of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk

• A1. Liulph;
  • B1. Liulph of Alditheley;
    • C1. Adam of Alditheley, b:1040, m. Petronella;
      • D1. Henry of Alditheley, Sheriff of Staffordshire, d:1246, m. Bertred Mainwaring;
        • E1. James of Alditheley, Sheriff of Staffordshire, d:1272, m. Ela de Longespee Plantagenet;  ==>  Plantagenet
          • F1. Alice de Audley, d:1374, m1. Ralph de Greystoke,  <==  Greystoke family
                              m2. Ralph Neville;  <==  Neville family
          • F2. Hugh de Audley, m. Isolda de Mortimer;  ==>  Mortimer family
            • G1. Hugh de Audley, Earl of Gloucester, d:1347, m. Margaret de Clare;  ==>  de Clare family
              • H1. Margaret Audley, d:1342, m. Ralph de Stafford;  <==  Stafford family