Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester

Hugh de Audley
1st Earl of Gloucester
Arms of Audley: Gules, a fret or
Other titlesLord of the Manor of Chilton[1]
Lord of the Manor of Gratton
Bornc. 1291[2][3]
Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England
Died10 November 1347[3]
Kent, England
BuriedTonbridge Priory, Kent, England
Noble familyde Audley
Spouse(s)Margaret de Clare[3][4]
IssueMargaret de Audley[3]
FatherHugh de Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Stratton Audley[3][4]
MotherIsolt Mortimer[3][4]

Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester, 1st Baron Audley (c. 1291 – 10 November 1347) of Stratton Audley in Oxfordshire, and of Gratton in Staffordshire, served as Sheriff of Rutland and was the English Ambassador to France in 1341.[2][5] He was buried in Tonbridge Priory.[3][4][6]

  1. ^ Page, W. (1927) Parishes: Chilton. A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4. Ed. London, England: Victoria County History.
  2. ^ a b Harrison, B.H. (2009). The Family Forest Descendants of Milesius of Spain for 84 Generations. The Family Forest National Treasure Edition. Kamuela, HI: Millicent Publishing Company, Inc.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g 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.
  4. ^ a b c d Weis, F. L., Sheppard, W. L., & Beall, W. R. (1999). The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years. Genealogical Publishing Com.
  5. ^ J. R. Maddicott, 'Audley, Hugh, earl of Gloucester (c. 1291–1347)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Fuller was invoked but never defined (see the help page).