Nicholas de Audley Lord Audley

  General Notes:

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~The Plantagenet Ancestry, William Henry Turton, 1968, Page: 119 Text: 1289
~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 71:33, father of Sir James Audley, Knight of the Garter, his wife was Joan Martin, daughter of William Martin, Lort Martin and Eleanor, daughter of Sir Reginald Fitz Piers, 122:32, ^160,362

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ^141,846
Nicholas Audley or Aldithley, of Heleigh, co. Stafford, brother and heir to Thomas, born 11 Nov 1289. He had seizin of his brother's lands, having proved his age 27 March 1313/4. He was summoned to Parliament by writs directed Nicholao de Audele, 8 January (1312/3) to 25 August (1318) whereby he may be held to have become Lord Audley. He married in 1312, without license, Joan, widow of Henry, Earl of Lincoln, the only child that had issue of William Lord Martin , by Eleanor, widow of John de Mohun, of Dunster, daughter of Sir Reynold Fitz Piers. He died in 1316, shortly before 6 December, aged 27. His widow died between February1319/20 and 1 Aug. 1322.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. I, 1887 Edition, p. 198
~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, (Audley), p. 339

• Background Information. ⁸¹¹⁴
Nicholas, third lord Audley, had a summons to parliament from 6 to 12 Edward II, and died the following year in 1319. He was married to Joane who was the widow of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and sister and coheir of William Martin, Baron of Kameys. His son and heir was James de Audley.

~Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Vol. I, p. 101

Nicholas married Joan Martin, daughter of Sir William Martin 1st Baron of Combe Martin and Eleanor Fitz Piers, in 1312 in Staffordshire, England.⁸¹⁴ (Joan Martin was born about 1291 in Combe Martin, Barnstaple, Devonshire, England and died after 1319 in Barnstaple, Devonshire, England ⁸¹⁴.)