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Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester, 1st Baron Audley (c. 1291 – 10 November 1347) of Stratton Audley in
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, and of Gratton in
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, served as
Sheriff of Rutland This is a list of sheriffs and high sheriffs of the English county of Rutland. The sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown: there has been a Sheriff of Rutland since 1129. Formerly the sheriff was the principal law enforcement off ...
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

He 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

He married Margaret de Clare, widow of
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, 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
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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 Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford.


Career

Following his marriage, he was created Earl of Gloucester by King
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. He served as
Sheriff of Rutland This is a list of sheriffs and high sheriffs of the English county of Rutland. The sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown: there has been a Sheriff of Rutland since 1129. Formerly the sheriff was the principal law enforcement off ...
from 1316 to 1322 and again from 1327 to 1347.Fuller, T. (2013). The history of the worthies of England, Volume 3. Hardpress. .


See also

* Audley-Stanley family


External links


Inquisition Post Mortem
ref>Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem - Edward III


References


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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. Maddic ...
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