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Name Suffix:<NSFX> Of Heleigh,Sir
1 NAME James 5Th Baron De Audley /Touchet/
2 GIVN James 5Th Baron De Audley
2 SURN Touchet
2 NSFX Sir
1 NAME James/Tuchet/
2 GIVN James
2 SURN Tuchet
2 NSFX 2nd Baron Audley

James Touchet, 5th Lord (Baron) Audley; Chief Justice 1423 and Chamberlain of South Wales 1438/9 and 1441, supported Henry VI in Wars of Roses. [Burke's Peerage]

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James Tuchet, Lord Audley, b. c 1398, d. 23 Sep 1459, MP 1421-1455; m. (1) c 1415 Margaret de Ros (1-8), living 1423. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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BARONY OF TUCHET (II)

BARONY OF AUDLEY (V)

JAMES (Tuchet), LORD AUDLEY, son and heir, aged ten years in 1408. He was summoned to Parliament 26 February 1420/1 to 26 May 1455, the writs being directed Jacobo de Audley. Chief Justice of South Wales 17 November 1423,Chamberlain of South Wales 11 February 1438/9, and again 24 October 1441. He distinguished himself in the wars with France, having the chief command of some forces in 1430. On 26 October 1447, he had exemption for life, as James Tuchete, Lord of Audley, from attendance in Parliament. Having raised 10,000 men on behalf of Henry VI, he was defeated and slain by the Yorkists at the battle of Blore Heath, Salop.

He married, 1stly, Margaret, da. of William (Roos), LORD Roos, by Margaret, daughter of John (ARUNDEL), LORD ARUNDEL (Papal Dispensation.6 Kal. March 1415, to him to remain in marriage contracted but not consummated). She was living 15 Kal. September 1423. He married, 2ndly, (Papal Dispensation to remain in marriage contracted but not consummated) though related in the 3rd degree, dat. 16 Kal. March 1429/30) Eleanor, illegitimate daughter of Edmund(de Holland), 4th Earl of Kent, by Constance, widow of Thomas (le Despencer), 2nd son of 5th Lord Despencer and sometime Earl of Gloucester, daughter of Edmund (of Langley), 1st Duke of York. He died 23 September 1459, aged about 61. [Complete Peerage I:341 XIV:51, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]