Adam de Audley

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ⁷²³
Aldidelege (Audley) Baltredelez (half Balterby) and Talc (talke in Audley), all held in 1086 by the Thane, Gamel, seem to have come, early in the reign of Henry I, into the hands of first Adam de Audley, who divided it between his sons, Lydulph and Adam. In 1130 Liulf de Audley lay under a heavy penalty for the muder of Gamel. Adam II was apparently the father of Henry de Audley, "the great territorial acquisitionist of the district," who built the castle of Heighley, and is represented by Dugdale's Visitation, as the first to use the name.

~Battle Abbey Roll, p. 224

• Background Information: ¹⁴¹
Henry of Aldithley, 2nd son of Adam of Aldithley, (who died between 1203 and 1211) by Emma, daughter of Ralf fitz Orm, of Darlaston, Staffs; was born about 1175. With his father, he was witness to a charter of Harvey Bagot in 1194.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, (Audley), p. 337

This Adam was the son of Liulf, who was granted the manors of Aldithley (or Audley), Talke, &c., in Staffordshire sometime during the reign of Stephen, from Nicholas de Verdun.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, (Audley), p. 337, footnote (c)

• Background Information: ¹⁵⁹²
Adam de Aldithele occurs in 1155 as a witness [Staff. Cols, ii, p.235] and from 1199-1203 as a Knight on Juries. [Staff. Cols., iii, p. 50] He inherited Audley, one-half Balterley and Talk, which he held of the Verdons, Barons of Alton. He acquired one half- Norton-in-the-Noors, Cold Norton, Heleyand Betleyby grant or purchase. He was Custos of Cheshire in 1188, [Ormerod's Chesire, i, 466] during the minority of Ranulf, Earl of Chester, and married sometime around 1170, Emma, daughter and heiress of Ralf fitz Orm, by whom he had Horton [Staff. Cols. iv, p.50] and probably Gurslem and Tunstall. She was the first cousin of Alin de Darlaston.

"The Parentage of James de Audley, K.G.," Collections for a History of Staffordshire, p. 259

Adam married Emma Fitz Orm, daughter of Ralph Fitz Orm and Unknown.¹⁴¹ (Emma Fitz Orm was born about 1150 in Darlaston, Walsall, Staffordshire, England.)