James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley

Arms of Audley: Gules, fretty or. As given for Nicholas de Audley on the following Rolls of arms: Collins Roll (1304), Falkirk Roll (1298) and for his ancestor on the Glover's Roll (c. 1240-45)
For similarly named people, see James Audley (disambiguation).

James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley (8 January 1312/1313 — 1 April 1386) of Heighley Castle, Staffordshire, was an English peer.

Origins

James Audley was the son and heir of Nicholas Audley, 1st Baron Audley (1289–1316) by his wife Joan FitzMartin (died Feb. 1320 / 1 Aug. 1322), daughter of William I FitzMartin (d.1324), feudal baron of Barnstaple, Devon. She was in her issue (i.e. posthumously) the eventual sole heiress of her brother William II FitzMartin (d.1326) to the feudal barony of Barnstaple.[1]

Marriages and progeny

James Audley married twice:

Succession

James Audley had settled the feudal barony of Barnstaple by means of an entail on his heirs male, with remainder to the crown.[12] As all his sons from both his marriages died without progeny, the barony thus became the inheritance of King Richard II (1377-1399), who granted the barony to his half-brother John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (c.1352-1400), in tail-male.[13]

Sources

References

  1. Sanders, Ivor, English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, pp.104-5, Barnstaple
  2. 2.0 2.1 Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham. Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families, Genealogical Publishing Com, 2005. pg 831. Google eBook
  3. Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.16
  4. GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, p.501, Baron FitzWarin, note a, inquisition post mortem of Nicholas Audeley (d.1391)
  5. GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, p.501, Baron FitzWarin, note a, inquisition post mortem of Nicholas Audeley (d.1391)
  6. GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, p.501, Baron FitzWarin, note a, inquisition post mortem of Nicholas Audeley (d.1391)
  7. GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, p.501, Baron FitzWarin, note a, inquisition post mortem of Nicholas Audeley (d.1391)
  8. GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, pp.500-1, Baron FitzWarin
  9. GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, p.500, Baron FitzWarin
  10. Strong, H.W., History and Description of Tawstock Church, Barnstaple, 1889, p.8
  11. GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, p.501, Baron FitzWarin, note a, inquisition post mortem of Nicholas Audeley (d.1391)
  12. Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.16
  13. Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.16
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Nicholas Audley
Baron Audley
1316—1386
Succeeded by
Nicholas Audley