Nicholas Audley, 3rd Baron Audley (c. 1328 – 1391) was born at
Heighley Castle
Heighley Castle (or Heleigh Castle) is a ruined medieval castle near Madeley, Staffordshire, Madeley, Staffordshire. The castle was completed by the Audley-Stanley family, Audley family in 1233 and for over 300 years was one of their ancestral h ...
,
Staffordshire, England
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to James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley, and was his only surviving son.
He was known as Lord of Rougemont (Redcastle,
Shropshire
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th ...
) and was
Marcher Lord
A Marcher lord () was a noble appointed by the king of England to guard the border (known as the Welsh Marches) between England and Wales.
A Marcher lord was the English equivalent of a margrave (in the Holy Roman Empire) or a marquis (in F ...
of
Kemes (as was his father), He was based at Heighley.
Nicholas's father-in-law Henry, 4th Earl of Buchan, received, amongst other large grants of manors and lands, a grant of the Lordship of the
Isle of Man
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in 1310.
Later members of the
Audley-Stanley family
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would become
Kings of Mann.
Family
Nicholas married Elizabeth Beaumont, sister of John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont, and daughter of
Henry de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Buchan. He died without issue and the Barony was abeyant at his demise in 1391. It was revived however in 1408 for
John Tuchet, grandson of Nicholas' sister Joan and her husband Sir John Tuchet (1327—1371).
[Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham. ''Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families,'' Genealogical Publishing Com, 2005. pg 831]
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/ref> Although he had many disagreements with his father, he was nevertheless buried alongside his father's marble tomb in the quire of Hulton Abbey
Hulton Abbey is a scheduled monument in the United Kingdom, a former monastery located in what is now Abbey Hulton, a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent. A daughter house of the Cistercian Combermere Abbey, the abbey was founded by Henry de Audley in th ...
.
See also
*Audley-Stanley family
The Stanley family (or Audley-Stanley family) is an English family with many notable members, including the Earls of Derby and the Barons Audley who descended from the early holders of Audley and Stanley, Staffordshire. The two branches of the Au ...
*Baron Audley
Baron Audley is a title in the Peerage of England first created in 1313, by writ to the Parliament of England, for Sir Nicholas Audley of Heighley Castle, a member of the Anglo-Norman Audley family of Staffordshire.
The third Baron, the las ...
* Abbey Hulton
*Hawkstone Park
Hawkstone Park is was a destination on the English Grand Tour and is a historic landscape park with pleasure grounds and gardens historically associated with Soulton Hall and Hawkstone Hall.
It is located north east of the small village o ...
history
*Weston-under-Redcastle
Weston-under-Redcastle is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It lies 10 km (6.2 miles) by road east of Wem.
At one end of the village is the main entrance to Hawkstone Park hotel and golf courses, and at the other end ...
References
External links
Madeley Village, Heighley castle history
British History online - Hulton Abbey
1320s births
1391 deaths
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