John Tuchet, 6th Baron Audley, 3rd Baron Tuchet (1423 – 26 September 1490) was an English politician. John Tuchet was the son of James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (c. 1398 - 1459). He married Ann Echyngham (daughter of Sir Thomas Echyngham (died 1444) and Margaret Knyvet, and widow of John Rogers of Bryanston), with whom he had seven children. He acquired his title by writ in 1459 on the death of his father. In 1460 at Calais, then belonging to the English crown, he was taken prisoner by the Earl of Warwick whilst on a military expedition during the Wars of the Roses. He there met the future Edward IV and was persuaded to defect to the Yorkist cause and fought for Edward at the Battles of

Mortimer's Cross The Battle of Mortimer's Cross was fought on 2 February 1461 near Kingsland, Herefordshire (between Leominster and Leintwardine, by the River Lugg), not far from the Welsh border. It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses. The opposing ...

(1461), Barnet (1471) and

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(1471). He was subsequently invested by Edward in 1471 as a Privy Counsellor (PC). He received commissions of Array. He was joint commander of the Army and held the office of Master of the King's Dogs in 1471. He was present when King Edward bestowed the title of

Earl of Winchester Earl of Winchester was a title that was created three times in the Peerage of England during the Middle Ages. The first was Saer de Quincy, who received the earldom in 1207/8 after his wife inherited half of the lands of the Beaumont earls of Lei ...

upon Louis Seigneur de la Gruthuyse in 1472. Richard III appointed him

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in December 1484, in succession to Sir John Wood. John Tuchet died on 26 September 1490 and was buried at

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, Surrey. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir

James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley (c. 146328 June 1497) was a British nobleman and the only lord to fully join the Cornish rebellion of 1497 opposing the rule of Henry VII of England. He was a leader in the rebel army's march to the edge of Londo ...

(1463–1497). He was survived by his wife Anne, who was buried at Bermondsey and whose will was written in 1497 and proved in 1498.Will of Dame Anne Lady Audeley, Widow, of the Close of the Monastery of St Saviours, Bermondsey (P.C.C. 1498, Horne quire).

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