Sir Hugh de Audley of Stratton Audley ( 1267 – 1325), Lord of Stratton Audley, was a 13th- and 14th-century English noble. During his life he acted as

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, Sheriff of

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, Sheriff of

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, Justice of

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, Keeper of

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, and acted as an ambassador to France. Hugh participated in the rebellion of

Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster ( 1278 – 22 March 1322) was an English nobleman of the first House of Lancaster of the royal Plantagenet Dynasty. He was Earl of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby from 1296 to 1322, and Earl of Lincoln and Sa ...

and surrendered prior to the

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in 1322. He remained a prisoner held at

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until he died in 1325.

Biography

Hugh was the fifth and youngest son of

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and Ela de Longspee, daughter of

William Longespée the Younger Sir William Longespée (c. 1212 – 8 February 1250) was an English knight and crusader, the son of William Longespée and Ela, Countess of Salisbury. His death became of significant importance to the English psyche, having died at the Battl ...

. After the death of his father in 1272, Hugh inherited Stratton Audley,

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, the dowry of his mother. During 1294 Hugh took part in King

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's Gascony campaign. Whilst campaigning he was captured fighting the French and was held prisoner until 2 April 1299. Between 1299 and 1302, he took part in the English campaigns in Scotland. In 1306, he served as justice of the peace in

and in 1309 he was appointed Constable of

. Hugh was also present at the

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against the Scots in 1314. Audley was created

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of Stratton Audley by writ in 1321. Hugh and his younger son, also named

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, took part in the rebellion of the lords of the Welsh Marches against

Hugh Despenser the Younger Hugh Despenser, 1st Baron Despenser (1287/1289 – 24 November 1326), also referred to as "the Younger Despenser", was the son and heir of Hugh Despenser, Earl of Winchester (the Elder Despenser) and his wife Isabel Beauchamp, daughter of Wi ...

in 1321. After initial successes, Audley surrendered with his ally

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on 6 February 1322. He was imprisoned in

, where the younger Hugh joined him a few weeks later after the

. An attempt to free prisoners from the castle in 1323 ultimately failed. Hugh died while imprisoned at the castle in 1325.

Family

He married, in 1288, Isolde, the widow of Walter de Balun. She was the daughter of Roger le Rous and Alianore de Avenbury.Hammond, P. W. (1998). ''The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda''. They had the following known issue: *James de Audley (died 1334), with his partner Eve de Clavering, had two illegitimate children, Peter and James. * Hugh de Audley, Earl of Gloucester (died 1347), 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 ...

and had a daughter,

Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness 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 ...

. *Alice de Audley (died 1374) married firstly

Ralph de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke Ralph de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke, (15 August 1299 – 14 July 1323) was an peerage of England, English peer and landed gentry, landowner. Descent and title Greystoke was the son of Robert fitz Ralph (heir and second son of Ralph Fitzwill ...

and, secondly,

Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville of Raby ( – 5 August 1367) was an English aristocrat, the son of Ralph Neville, 1st Baron Neville de Raby by Eupheme de Clavering. Neville led the English forces to victory against King David II of Scotla ...

, and had children with both spouses.

Citations

References

* * Natalie Fryde, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. * Seymour Phillips, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. {{DEFAULTSORT:Audley, Hugh 1325 deaths English people of the Wars of Scottish Independence 13th-century English nobility 14th-century English nobility Year of birth unknown