James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet (c. 1398 – 23 September 1459) of Heleigh Castle was an English peer. James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, son of Elizabeth Stafford and her husband John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley, was a distinguished veteran of the

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. In the opening phase of the

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he raised troops from his estates in

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and

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and commanded the Lancastrian force that moved to block the Yorkist Earl of Salisbury's route to Ludlow where he intended linking up with the rest of the Yorkist army. The two forces clashed in the

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on 23 September 1459 and Audley was killed by

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of Stocks near Ellesmere (Kynaston incorporated emblems of the Audley coat-of-arms into his own). Audley's Cross still stands on the battlefield marking the spot where he died. Audley was buried in

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, north of

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, about away from Blore Heath. The Abbey no longer stands, so his final resting place is no longer marked.

Marriages and children

Audley married twice: *Firstly, having obtained a marriage licence dated 24 February 1415, to Margaret de Ros (c. 1400 - before 14 February 1430), daughter of Margaret FitzAlan (D'Arundel) and her husband

William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros ( – 1 November 1414), was a medieval English nobleman, politician and soldier. The second son of Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron Ros, and Beatrice Stafford, William inherited his father's feudal barony and estates ( ...

. They were granted a Papal Dispensation for being related in the 3rd and 4th degrees of kindred.Douglas Richardson. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' Genealogical Publishing Company, Jul 30, 2005.Douglas Richardson. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 2nd Edition, Vol. II.Douglas Richardson. ''Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial and Medieval Families,'' Genealogical Publishing Com, Jun 30, 2004. Together they had three children: **

John Tuchet, 6th Baron Audley 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 (die ...

(c. 1426 - 26 September 1490), son and heir. **Elizabeth Touchet (c. 1420 - before 8 November 1464), who married Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham. **Anne Touchet (c. 1424 - 1503), who married Sir Thomas Dutton, who died at the

(1459) along with his father-in-law. *Secondly, having obtained a marriage licence on 14 September 1430, he married Eleanor de Holland, an illegitimate daughter of

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and his mistress

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, daughter of

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and

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. They too were granted a Papal Dispensation, as they were related in the 3rd and 3rd degrees of affinity. With Eleanor de Holland he had a further seven children as follows: **Sir Humphrey Touchet (c. 1434 - 6 May 1471), who married Elizabeth Courtenay, widow of Sir James Luttrell (1426/7-1461) of

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in Somerset, feudal baron of Dunster, (who died fighting for the Lancastrian cause at the Battle of St Albans in 1461) and a daughter of Sir Philip Courtenay (1404–1463) of Powderham in Devon. Like his father, he supported the

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. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Tewkesbury and tried before Richard, Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Norfolk. Executed with other Lancastrian leaders in the Market Square he was buried under the pavement in the Chapel of St Nicolas, in the Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin. **Thomas Touchet (c. 1440 - June 1507), who married a certain Catherine. **

Edmund Audley Edmund Audley (died 1524) was Bishop of Rochester, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of Salisbury. Life Audley graduated BA in 1463 at University College, Oxford. He was appointed to the seventh stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 147 ...

(c. 1443 - 23 August 1524), who served successively

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and

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. **Margaret Touchet (c. 1431 - before 2 February 1481), who at some time before 12 January 1459 married Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, son of Sir Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville and Antigone Plantagenet. **Constance Touchet (born c. 1432), who in 1464 married (as his second wife) Sir Robert Whitney (1436 - aft. 1467), an active participant in the Wars of the Roses, son of Eustace Whitney (?-1468) and Jennet Trussell and widower of Alice Vaughn, daughter of Thomas Vaughn.Genealogical and Personal Memoirs by William Richard Cutter, p. 1398 **Eleanor Touchet (born circa 1442), who married Humphrey Grey, son of Sir Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville and Antigone Plantagenet, in 1460. **Anne Touchet (born circa 1446), who married Sir Richard Delabere.

References

*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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