Born about in Staffordshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Adam (Audley) de Audley
and Emma (FitzOrm) Audley
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Bertrade (Mainwaring) de Audley
— married
1217 in Cheshire, England
Descendants 
Died before
before about age 71
in Sussex, England
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Biography
Sir Henry Audley was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.
- "Henry was the second son of Adam de Audley[1] (d. 1203), son of Liulf de Audley. The Audleys, of Anglo-Saxon ancestry, took their name from their Staffordshire manor of Audley, or Heleigh (Aldithelegh and many variants), granted to Henry's great-grandfather by Nicholas de Verdon in Stephen's reign. Henry's elder brother Adam was the constable of Hugh de Lacy, earl of Ulster (d. 1242), and Henry may also have served the earl since both brothers received lands in Ulster. Audley had succeeded both his father and his brother by 1212, and in 1217 he married Bertred, daughter of Ralph Mainwaring, county justice of Chester. During the civil war of 1215, he served the powerful royalist Ranulf (III), earl of Chester (d. 1232), who granted him lands in Cheshire and Staffordshire. Between 1217 and 1220 Audley was sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire as the earl's deputy. Briefly bailiff of Carmarthen in 1226, he was again sheriff of the two counties between 1227 and 1232 and constable of Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth. Early in 1234 he garrisoned Shrewsbury Castle but failed to prevent the Welsh from burning the town. After the death of John, earl of Chester, Henry was one of the royal keepers of the county palatine and constable of Chester and Beeston.
"Between 1217 and 1245 Audley was regularly employed on the Welsh marches, frequently negotiating truces with the Welsh and arbitrating on breaches of the truce and on boundary disputes. In 1245 he took part in the relief of Diserth Castle. On the king's behalf he repaired the castles at Shrawardine (1220) and Mold (12412): on his own he strengthened Audley and Hodnet castles and built the new fortress of Redcastle in Shropshire, licensed in 1237. In 1219 he founded and endowed the Cistercian abbey at Hulton, Staffordshire. By gift and purchase he steadily built up his estates, mainly in Shropshire and Staffordshire. He was not a marcher lord, nor, until Henry III granted him the Shropshire manors of Edgmond and Newport in 1227 and Ford in 1230, was he a tenant-in-chief. But such was his activity in the royal service that he won for the Audleys an influence in border affairs out of proportion to their modest estates. Significantly, his daughter Emma married Gruffudd ap Madog, the powerful lord of Bromfield. On his death in the autumn of 1246 Henry Audley was succeeded by his son James Audley." (Ref: ODNB)
Children: (Cawley only lists four)
- Alice, m. Peter de Montfort[1]
- Ranulf, no issue[1]
- James, b. c. 1220, m. Ela Longespee, d. <11 June 1272[1]
- Emma, m. (1) Henry Tuschet/Tuchet (2) Gfiffith ap Madoc[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families, Online at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy Website (1 July 2020). Lords Audley
- ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. I, page 200
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)
- Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage Of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain And The United Kingdom Extant, Extinct Or Dormant. London. Vol. 1 AB-ADAM to BASING. 1910. p. 337
- Delafield, John Ross. Delafield, The Family History. [New York]: Priv. Print, 1945. Appendix 30, p. 592 (Derived from Wedgwood)
- Wedgwood, Josiah. "The Inquests of the Staffordshire Estates of the Audleys" in William Salt Archaeological Society, and Staffordshire Record Society. Collections for a History of Staffordshire. Birmingham: William Salt Archaeological Society, 1880. p. 233-
- Robert William Eyton. Antiquities of Shropshire. J.R. Smith; 1858. p. 183–.
Acknowledgements
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[CFR HIII] 29 October 1222 Rutland. To the sheriff of Rutland. The king has granted to Henry of Audley the custody of the land formerly of Warin de Glapion in Cottesmore with its appurtenances for as long as it pleases the king, for the seisin of which land Robert de Coudray, who is dead, had made fine with the king by 50 m. at the pledge of William de Cantilupe, Stephen of Seagrave and Walter Daiville, of which Robert has rendered 10 m. and Henry of Audley, to whom the king has betaken himself, is to render the remaining 40 m. at the Exchequer. Order to cause Henry to have full seisin without delay of the land of Cottesmore with its appurtenances and to cause William de Cantilupe, Stephen of Seagrave and Walter Daiville to be quit of the pledge.
[CLR HIII] 27 January 1228. Computate to Henry de Alditheleye, sheriff of Salop and Stafford, the cost expended by the view of lawful men in erecting the palisade of the castle of Shrewsbury and in repairing the houses of that castle and of the castle of Bruges.
[CFR HIII] 8 December 1232 Shrewsbury. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand they make by summons of the Exchequer from Henry of Audley , until the octaves of Hilary in the seventeenth year, both for the amercements and the debts he owes to the king from the time that he was sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and for all other debts they exact from him to the king’s use. And they are to cause William of Bromley, his knight, whom they arrested at the Exchequer for the aforesaid debts, to be delivered in the meantime.
[CPR HIII] 2 November 1233 Hereford. To Thomas de Berkeley. The king is sending into his parts Amaury de Sacy together with some other of his knights to keep the peace of those parts and the passes and passages of the same parts, commanding him to receive them in his castle of Berkele and to enjoin his men to be aiding and counselling unto them in keeping the said passes. Writ de intendendo to all sheriffs for the said Amaury, whom the king is sending to journey through their counties for the preservation of the peace, in those things which he shall tell them from the king' and the are to instruct the bailiffs of every hundred to be attendant unto him likewise. The said Amaury has other letters patent for journey, by the same words as Amaury de Sancto Amando had on the 17th roll. G. de Sedgrave and Henry de Aldithele have like letters following them.
[CPR HIII] 19 December 1233 Worcester. Appointment of Henry de Aldithele, in the place of the earl of Lincoln, to bear the care and custody of the town of Shrewsbury, with mandate to the barons and knights there to be intendant to the said Henry nothwithstanding that the king previously appointed William de Cantilupo to this.
[CPR HIII] 13 May 1237 Westminster. The king sends Henry de Aldithelegh to the parts of Chester to keep the peace of those parts, and commands the barons, knights, constables and all good men holding of the earl of Chester in the county of Chester, according to the inborn fealty which they have always had towards their lords, to be manfully assisting to him herein.