James Tuchet 5th Lord Audley of Heighley Castle

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 176B:36, styled Lord Audley, married Margaret de Ros ¹⁶⁰

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
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 chiefcommand of some forces in I430. 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 slainby the Yorkists at the battle of Blore Heath, Salop.

He married, 1st, Margaret, da. of William (Roos), Lord Roos, by Margaret, daughter of John, Lord Arudel (Papal Dispensation. 6Kal. March 1415, to him to remain in marriage contracted but notconsummated). 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, byConstance, widow of Thomas (le Despencer), 2nd son of 5th Lord Despencerand sometime Earl of Gloucester, daughter of Edmund (of Langley), 1st Duke of York. He died 23 Sep 1459, aged about 61.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Audley), Vol. I, p. 341

James married Margaret de Ros, daughter of Sir William de Ros Knight and Margaret Fitz Alan de Arundel, about 1415 ¹⁶⁰.^,141 (Margaret de Ros was born in 1398 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England and died on 18 Aug 1423 in Heleigh, Staffordshire, England.)