Margaret De Audley

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• Reference Number: 3710
• Birth: Abt 1318

Margaret — Ralph De Stafford. Ralph (son of Edmund Stafford and Margaret De Basset) was born 24 Sep 1301; died 31 Aug 1372, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

1. Hugh Stafford, I was born Abt 1334, Staffordshire, England; died 16 Oct 1384.
2. Katherine De Stafford was born 1347, Staffordshire, England; died 1361.
3. Elizabeth De Stafford was born 1342; died 7 Aug 1375.
4. Ralph Stafford
5. Beatrice Stafford died 1415.
6. Joan Stafford died 1397.

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• Reference Number: 3708
• Birth: Abt 1295
• Death: 10 Nov 1347

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Hugh de Audley, Lord Audley, 8th Earl of Gloucester was born circa 1295. He was the successor of Gilbert (de Clare), 7th Earl of Gloucester and Hertford; 7th Earl of Gloucester and Hertford.

Hugh was the son of Hugh, Lord Audley of Heleigh and Isolde de Mortimer. He married Margaret de Clare, daughter of Gilbert "the Red Earl" (de Clare), 6th Earl of Gloucester and Hertford and Joan (of Acre), Countess of Gloucester and Hertford, on 28 April 1317 at Windsor, England.

Hugh was summoned to parliament in the lifetime of his father as "Hugh de Audley, Juniori" on 20 November 1317. 4th Lord Audley of Heleigh in 1325. 8th Earl of Gloucester between 1337 and 1347.5 Ambassador to France in 1341.

He died on 10 November 1347. He was the predecessor of Thomas, "of Woodstock," 1st Duke of Gloucester, 13th Earl of Essex, and Earl of Buckingham; 1st Duke of Gloucester.

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Hugh married Margaret De Clare 28 Apr 1317. Margaret (daughter of Gilbert De Clare and Joan of Acre) was born 12 Oct 1292, Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales; died 9 Apr 1342, Badlesmere, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 3758
• Birth: Abt 1292
• Death: 13 Apr 1342

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Margaret de Clare (October 1293 - April 1342) was one of the three daughters of Gilbert de Clare, 3rd Earl of Gloucester and his wife, Joan of Acre, and thus a granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

She was married to Piers Gaveston, the favourite of her uncle Edward II, in October 1307. According to the Vita Edwardi Secundi, this marriage was arranged by the King "to strengthen Piers and surround him with friends." Gaveston celebrated the marriage with a lavish tournament at Wallingford Castle. The marriage of such a high-born lady to a foreigner was not popular among the English nobility. They had one child:
Joan Gaveston, born probably January 12/18th, 1312, at York.

King Edward threw a grand celebration after the birth of this child, complete with minstrels. However, Piers Gaveston was executed only six months later, leaving Margaret a widow with a small child. Her dower rights as Countess of Cornwall were disputed, and so King Edward instead assigned her Oakham Castle and other lands. She joined the Royal household and in 1316 accompanied the King in his journey from London to York.

Following the death of their brother, Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Hertford, at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, Margaret and her sisters, Elizabeth and Eleanor de Clare received a share of the inheritance. Margaret was now one of the co-heiresses to the vast Gloucester estate, and King Edward arranged a second marriage for her to another favourite, Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester.

On April 28, 1317 Margaret de Clare wed Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester at Windsor Castle. They had one daughter:
Margaret de Audley, born between January 1318 and November 1322.

Hugh and Margaret were among the victims of their brother-in-law, Hugh the younger Despenser. In his rashness and greed for the Clare lands, he robbed Margaret of much of her rightful inheritance. In 1321, Hugh de Audley joined the other Marcher Barons in looting, burning, and causing general devastation to Despenser's lands.

Hugh was captured at the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322, and was saved from a hanging thanks to the pleas of his wife. He was imprisoned, and two months later Margaret was sent to Sempringham priory. She remained there until 1326, when Hugh escaped prison and she was released from Sempringham.

In the meantime, her daughter Joan Gaveston had been sent to Amesbury Priory. A marriage was arranged for Joan with the son of Thomas Multon, but the girl died in early 1325.

Hugh and Margaret were reunited sometime in 1326. In summer 1336, their only daughter, Margaret Audley, was abducted by Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford. Her parents filed a complaint, but King Edward III of England supported Stafford. He appeased Hugh and Margaret by creating Hugh Earl of Gloucester.

Margaret died in April 1342 and her sister Elizabeth de Clare paid for prayers to be said for her soul at Tonbridge priory.


Birth:
Caerphilly Castle

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• Reference Number: 7597

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Hugh, Lord Audley of Heleigh was born circa 1260 at Audley, Staffordshire, England. He was the son of James de Aldithley, Justiciar of Ireland and Ela Longespée.

Hugh married Isolde de Mortimer, daughter of Edmund, 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore and Margaret de Fiennes, before 1295 at Wigmore, Herefordshire, England

He was Ambassador to France circa 1317. Hughwas a witness where Edward II, King of England called a Parliament and summoned his Barons in 1317. 1st Lord Audley of Heleigh in 1317. Hugh was summoned to Parliament as Lord Audley by Edward II in 1317. He was summoned to parliament as "Hugh de Audley, Seniori" by Edward II on 15 May 1321 at 14 Edward II. He was involved with the insurrection of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and was committed, a "close prisoner" to Wallingford Castle, but making his peace with the king he obtained his release, and suffered nothing further, in 1321/22 at 15 Edward II.

Hugh died in 1325.

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Hugh — Isolde De Mortimer. Isolde (daughter of Edmund De Mortimer and Margaret De Fiennes) was born Abt 1271, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died 1328, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Isolde De Mortimer, Lady Of Wigmore
• Reference Number: 3856

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Birth:
See FMG.

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• Name: "Red" Gilbert de Clare
• Reference Number: 3757

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Buried:
Tewkesbury Abbey

Gilbert married Joan of Acre 30 Apr 1290. Joan (daughter of Edward Plantagenet and Eleanore of Castile) was born 1272; died 23 Apr 1307. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 3699

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James de Aldithley, Justiciar of Ireland was born circa 1225 in Audley, Staffordshire, England. He was the son of Henry de Aldithley and Bertred Mainwaring. James married Ela Longespée, daughter of William Longespée and Idonia de Camville, in 1244 at Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He had livery of his lands in 1246/47 at 31 Henry III He was an active adherent of Henry III in his contests with the Barons between 1250 and 1260. Keeper of the castle of Newcastle-under-Lyme on 30 October 1250. He was a great favorite of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, at whose coronation as King of Almaine (Germany) he assisted in May 1257. He was a witness where Richard, "of Cornwall," Earl of Cornwall crowned as King of the Romans, i.e. emperor-designate, in May 1257 at Aachen, Germany. Arms: De gueules, fretté d'or. James joined in a letter of the Barons to the Pope in 1258. Justice of Chester in 1259. He was one of the Lords-Marcher, actively employed for some years against the Welsh, circa 1260. Justiciar of Ireland between 1262 and 1272. He was a witness where Roger, 6th Lord Mortimer with other barons-marcher, giving battle to Llewellyn, Prince of Wales in 1264. James was with Roger de Mortimer and the other barons-marcher, giving battle to Llewellyn, Prince of Wales in 1264. He was joined the Earl of Gloucester at Evesham in rescuing the king, who had become captive to the Earl of Leicester at the battle of Lewes. He performed a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in Galicia in 1267/68 at 52 Henry III, Spain. Annals of Monte Fernando 1270: "Item dominus James de Audele venit justiciarius Hibernie." He embarked in the Crusade with King Henry and Prince Edward in 1270. Annales Hiberniae 1270: "Jacobus de Audley Justitiarius." Annales Hiberniae 1272: "Interficitur justitiarius Jacobus Audley, lapsus ab equo in Thothomomia, cui successit Mauritius Mauritii."

James died circa 11 June 1272 at 56 Henry III, Ireland. He died by "breaking his neck." His estate was probated on 16 July 1272; Writ for his Inq. p. m.. He was the predecessor of Maurice fitz Maurice, Lord Justice of Ireland; Justiciar of Ireland.

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James married Ela Longespée 1244, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Ela (daughter of William Longespée, II and Idonia De Camville) was born 1228; died Bef 22 Nov 1299. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 8829

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Ela Longespée was born in 1228 at England. She was the daughter of William Longespée and Idonia de Camville. Ela married James de Aldithley, Justiciar of Ireland, son of Henry de Aldithley and Bertred Mainwaring, in 1244 at Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.

Ela was living in 1282 She died before 22 November 1299. Her estate was probated in 1325/26.

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• Reference Number: 4430

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Edmund de Mortimer, 2nd Baron Wigmore (1251 - July 17, 1304) was the second son and eventual heir of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore. His mother was Maud de Braose. As a younger son, Edmund had been intended for clerical or monastic life, and had been sent to study at Oxford University. He was made Treasurer of York in 1265. But the sudden death of his elder brother, Ralph, in 1276, made him heir to the family estates.

He returned in 1282 as the new Baron Mortimer of Wigmore and immediately became involved in Welsh Marches politics. Together with his brother Roger Mortimer of Chirk, John Giffard, and Roger Lestrange, he devised a plan to trap Llywelyn the Last. Edmund sent a message to Llywelyn telling him he was coming to Llywelyn's aid and arranged to meet with him at Builth. But Edmund's brothers secretly forded the river behind Llywelyn's army and surprised the Welsh. In the resulting battle Llywelyn was killed and beheaded. Edmund then send his brother Roger Mortimer of Chirk to present Llywelyn's severed head to King Edward I of England.

In September 1285, he married Margaret de Fiennes, the daughter of William II de Fiennes and Blanche de Brienne (herself the granddaughter of John of Brienne by his third wife Berenguela of Leon).

Their children were:
Isolde Mortimer, married Hugh I de Audley
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
Maude Mortimer, married Theobald II de Verdun
Edmund was knighted by King Edward at Winchester, and served in the king's Gascon and Scottish campaigns. He was mortally wounded in a skirmish near Builth, and died at Wigmore Castle.

Edmund married Margaret De Fiennes Sep 1285. Margaret (daughter of William De Fiennes, II and Blanche De Brienne) was born Aft 1269; died 7 Feb 1333. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Margaret De Fiennes
• Reference Number: 3797

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Margaret Mortimer (née de Fiennes), Baroness Wigmore (born after 1269 - 7 February 1333) was an English noblewoman born to William II de Fiennes, Baron Tingry and Blanche de Brienne. Her paternal grandparents were Enguerrand II de Fiennes and Isabelle de Conde. Her maternal grandparents were Jean de Brienne and Jeanne, Dame de Chateaudun. In September 1285, when she was 14 or 15 years old, Margaret married Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Wigmore, the son of Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore and Maud de Braose.

They had three children:
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (25 April 1287 - 29 November 1330) married Joan de Geneville, by whom he had twelve children.
Maud Mortimer, married Theobald II de Verdon, by whom she had two daughters, Joan de Verdon and Elizabeth de Verdon.
Hugh Mortimer, married Margaret De Ros as her second husband.

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• Reference Number: 16026

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Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, 6th Earl of Gloucester (4 August 1222 - 14 July 1262) was son of Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and Isabel Marshal. On his father's death, when he became Earl of Gloucester (October 1230), he was entrusted first to the guardianship of Hubert de Burgh. On Hubert's fall, his guardianship was given to Peter des Roches (c. October 1232) ; and in 1235 to Gilbert, earl Marshall.

Richard's first marriage to Margaret or Megotta, as she was also called, ended with an annulment or with her death in November 1237. They were both approximately fourteen or fifteen. The marriage of Hubert de Burgh's daughter Margaret to Richard of Clare, the young Earl of Gloucester, brought de Burgh into some trouble in 1236, for the earl was as yet a minor and in the king's wardship, and the marriage had been celebrated without the royal license. Hubert, however, protested that the match was not of his making, and promised to pay the king some money, so the matter passed by for the time. Even before Margaret died, the Earl of Lincoln offered 5,000 marks to King Henry to secure Richard for his own daughter. This offer was accepted, and Richard was married secondly, on 2 Feb. 1238 to Maud de Lacy, daughter of John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln.

A year after he became of age, he was in an expedition against the Welsh. Through his mother, he inherited a fifth part of the Marshal estates, including Kilkenny and other lordships in Ireland.

He joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope in 1246 against the exactions of the Curia in England. He was among those in opposition to the King's half-brothers, who in 1247 visited England, where they were very unpopular, but afterwards he was reconciled to them.

On April 1248, he had letters of protection for going over seas on a pilgrimage. At Christmas 1248, he kept his Court with great splendor on the Welsh border. In the next year he went on a pilgrimage to St. Edmund at Pontigny, returning in June. In 1252 he observed Easter at Tewkesbury, and then went across the seas to restore the honor of his brother William, who had been badly worsted in a tournament and had lost all his arms and horses. The Earl is said to have succeeded in recovering all, and to have returned home with great credit, and in September he was present at the Round Table tournament at Walden.

In August 1252/3 the King crossed over to Gascony with his army, and to his great indignation the Earl refused to accompany him and went to Ireland instead. In August 1255 he and John Maunsel were sent to Edinburgh by the King to find out the truth regarding reports which had reached the King that his son-in-law, Alexander, King of Scotland, was being coerced by Robert de Roos and John Baliol. If possible, they were to bring the young King and Queen to him. The Earl and his companion, pretending to be the two of Roos's knights, obtained entry to Edinburgh Castle, and gradually introduced their attendants, so that they had a force sufficient for their defense. They gained access to the Scottish Queen, who made her complaints to them that she and her husband had been kept apart. They threatened Roos with dire punishments, so that he promised to go to the King.

Meanwhile the Scottish magnates, indignant at their castle of Edinburgh's being in English hands, proposed to besiege it, but they desisted when they found they would be besieging their King and Queen. The King of Scotland apparently traveled South with the Earl, for on 24 September they were with King Henry III at Newminster, Northumberland. In July 1258 he fell ill, being poisoned with his brother William, as it was supposed, by his steward, Walter de Scotenay. He recovered but his brother died.

Richard died at John de Griol's manor of Asbenfield in Waltham, near Canterbury, 14 July 1262, it being rumored that he had been poisoned at the table of Piers of Savoy. On the following Monday he was carried to Canterbury where a mass for the dead was sung, after which his body was taken to the canon's church at Tonbridge and interred in the choir. Thence it was taken to Tewkesbury Abbey and buried 28 July 1262, with great solemnity in the presence of tTewkes,Ann. p. 102 wo bishops and eight abbots in the presbytery at his father's right hand. Richard's own arms were: Or, three chevronels gules.

Richard had no children by his first wife, Margaret or Megotta de Burgh. By his second wife, Maud de Lacy, daughter of the Surety John de Lacy and Margaret Quincy, he had:
Isabel de Clare, b. ca. 1240, d. 1270, m. William VII of Montferrat.
Gilbert de Clare, b. 2 September 1243, d. 7 December 1295, 6th Earl of Hertford, 7th Earl of Gloucester.
Thomas de Clare, b. ca. 1245, d. 1287, he seized control of Thomond in 1277.
Bogo de Clare, b. ca. 1248, d. 1294.
Margaret de Clare, b. ca. 1250, d. 1312, m. Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall
Rohese de Clare, b. ca. 1252, m. Roger de Mowbray
Eglentina, d. 1257 in infancy.

His widow Maud, who had the manor of Clare and the manor and castle of Usk and other lands for her dower, erected a splendid tomb for her late husband at Tewkesbury. She arranged for the marriages of her children. She died before 10 March 1288.

Richard married Maud De Lacy 25 Jan 1238. Maud (daughter of John De Lacy and Margaret De Quincy) was born 25 Jan 1223, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died 10 Mar 1289. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 16027

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Maud de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, Countess of Hertford and Gloucester (25 January 1223- 1287/10 March 1289), was an English noblewoman, being the eldest child of John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln, and the wife of Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Earl of Gloucester. Her son was Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester, a powerful noble during the reigns of kings Henry III of England and Edward I.

Lady Maud de Lacy was born on 25 January 1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, the eldest child of John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln, a Magna Carta Surety, and Margaret de Quincy, suo jure Countess of Lincoln. Maud was styled as the Countess of Lincoln, however, she never held that title suo jure.

Maud had a younger brother Edmund de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln who married in 1247 Alasia of Saluzzo, by whom he had three children.

Her paternal grandparents were Roger de Lacy and Maud de Clare. Her maternal grandparents were Robert de Quincy and Hawise of Chester, Countess of Lincoln.

Maud and her mother, Margaret, were never close; in point of fact, relations between the two women were described as strained. Throughout Maud's marriage, the only interactions between Maud and her mother were on a financial level, pertaining to the substantial Marshal family property Margaret owned and controlled due to the latter's second marriage on 6 January 1242 to Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke (1196- 24 November 1245) almost two years after the death of Maud's father, John de Lacy in 1240.

On 25 January 1238 which was her fifteenth birthday, Lady Maud married Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, and 2nd Earl of Gloucester, son of Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, 1st Earl of Gloucester, and Isabel Marshal. Maud was his second wife; his first marriage, which was made clandestinely, to Megotta de Burgh ended through annulment or death. Even before the annulment or death of Megotta, Maud's parents paid King Henry III the enormous sum of 5,000 pounds to obtain his agreement to the marriage. The King supplied her dowry which consisted of the castle of Usk, the manor of Clere, as well as other lands and manors.

Together Richard and Maud had seven children:
Isabel de Clare (1240- 1271), married as his second wife, William VII of Montferrat, by whom she had one daughter, Margherita.
Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester (2 September 1243- 7 December 1295), married firstly Alice de Lusignan of Angouleme by whom he had two daughters; he married secondly Joan of Acre, by whom he had issue.
Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond (1245- 29 August 1287), married as her first husband Juliana FitzGerald, daughter of Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly and Maud de Prendergast, by whom he had issue including Richard de Clare, 1st Lord Clare and Margaret de Clare, Lady Badlesmere.
Bovo de Clare, Chancellor of Llandaff (21 July 1248- 1294)
Margaret de Clare (1250- 1312/1313), married Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall. Their marriage was childless.
Rohese de Clare (17 October 1252- after 1316), married Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray, by whom she had issue.
Eglantine de Clare (1257-1257)

On 15 July 1262, her husband died near Canterbury. Maud designed and commissioned a magnificent tomb for him at Tewkesbury Abbey where he was buried. She also donated the manor of Sydinghowe to the priory of Legh, Devonshire for the soul of Richard, formerly her husband, earl of Gloucester and Hertford by charter dated to 1280. Their eldest son Gilbert succeeded Richard as the 6th Earl of Hertford and 3rd Earl of Gloucester. Maud carefully arranged the marriages of her daughters; however, the King owned her sons' marriage rights. She was involved in numerous lawsuits and litigations with her tenants and neighbours, as a result she was known as the most litigious woman in the 13th century. She did, however, endorse many religious houses.

Maud herself died sometime between 1287 and 10 March 1289. Her numerous descendants included Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, both Queens consort of Henry VIII; and the Dukes of Norfolk.

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• Name: Long Shanks
• Reference Number: 11214

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Birth:
Westminster Palace, England

Edward married Eleanore of Castile Oct 1254. Eleanore (daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile and Joan of Dammartin) was born 1241, Spain; died 28 Nov 1290, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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