Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester, 1st Baron Audley (c. 1291 – 10 November 1347) of

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, and of Gratton in

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, served as Sheriff of Rutland and was the English

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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

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Origins

Hugh was born at

, 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

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and later

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Marriage

Hugh married

Margaret de Clare Margaret de Clare, Countess of Gloucester, Countess of Cornwall (12 October 1293 – 9 April 1342) was an English noblewoman, heiress, and the second eldest of the three daughters of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and his wife Joan of ...

, widow of

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, who was the

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(and possibly lover) of King

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. As Margaret was a sister of Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, who was killed at the

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in 1314, she brought the Gloucester estates to her husband. By Margaret he had a daughter,

Margaret de Audley Margaret de Audley, ''suo jure'' 2nd Baroness Audley and Countess of Stafford (c. 1318 – 7 September 1349G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete ...

(born c. 1318 in

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), who was abducted as his wife by

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Career

Following his marriage, he was created

Earl of Gloucester The title of Earl of Gloucester was created several times in the Peerage of Peerage of England, England. A fictional earl is also a character in William Shakespeare's play ''King Lear.'' Earls of Gloucester, 1st Creation (1121) *Robert, 1st Earl ...

by King

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. 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. .

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Inquisition Post Mortem
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Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester 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. Maddi ...

Burials at Tonbridge Priory, Kent 14th-century English diplomats Ambassadors of England to France

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Peers created by Edward III Barons Audley

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