AUDLEY COMPLETE PEERAGE 341 (merely) Johanni Tuchet (LORD TUCHET ?). He m. Isabel, who was living June 1405. He d. 19 Dec. 1408, aged about 38. V. 1408. 5. James (Tuchet), Lord Audley, s. and h., aged ten years in 1408. He was sum. to Pari. 26 Feb. 1 420/1 to 26 May 1455, C) the writs being directed Jacobo de Audley. Chief Justice of South Wales 17 Nov. 1423. Chamberlain of S. Wales 11 Feb. 1438/9, and again 24 Oct. 1441. He distinguished himself in the wars with France, having the chief command of some forces in 1430. On 26 Oct. 1447, he had exemption for life, as James Tuchete, Lord of Aud- ley, from attendance in Pari. C') 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. (°) Hew., istly, Margaret, da. of William (Roos), Lord Roos, by Margaret, da. of John (Arundel), Lord Arundel (Papal Disp. 6 Kal. Mar. 14 15, to him to remain in marriage contracted but not con- summated). She was living 15 Kal. Sep. 1423. He w., 2ndly, (Papal DisD. to remain in marriage contracted but not consummated, though related in the 3rd degree, dat. 16 Kal. Mar. 1429/30) Eleanor, illegit. da. of Thomas (Holand), Earl of Kent, by Constance, da. of Edmund, C) DuK-E OF York, but, according to Mills' Catalogue of Honour (16 10), she was da. of Edmund Holand, by Elizabeth, widow of Edward (le Des- penser), Lord Despenser, da. and h. of Bartholomew (Burghersh), Lord BuRGHERSH. (**) He d. (as afsd.) 23 Sep. 1459, aged about 61.0 VI. 1459. 6. John (Tuchet), Lord Audley, s. and h. by ist wife, who, in consideration of his father's services, had a spec, livery of his lands (1459-60), 38 Hen. VI, without proof of age. He was taken prisoner at Calais next year, where he joined the party of (*) See note " d " on previous page. (") Cal. Patent Rolls. ^ 1446-1452, p. 113. He must have been under 50 when he obtained this exemption, and it suggests that attendance in the House of Lords was then still regarded, at it previously had been, not as a privilege, but as a burdensome obligation. V.G. f) He was slain by Sir Roger Kynaston, of Hordley, who took his arms, Ermine a cheveron gules, ever after borne by that branch of the Kynastons. V.G. C) As to his supposed surname of ' Plantagenet, ' see ante^ p. 183, note " c. " C) See N. ^ Q.y 4th Ser., vol. iii, p. 608. But see, also, Sandford's Genealo- gical History, 1707, p. 379, wherein it is stated that Constance of York "was the paramour of Edmond Holand, Earl of Kent, by whom she had been so long courted that at last she brought him a da. named Eleanor, m. to James Touchet, Lord Audley, of which family the Audleys of Norfolk were descended. Which Eleanor would fain have made herself legitimate, but the right heirs preferred their bill in Pari, thereby proving her to be a bastard, as you may see in Polton's printed statutes, anno 9 Hen. VI, cap. xi. " (') His sons by his 2nd wife took the name of Audley. These were (i) Sir Humphrey A., slain at Tewkesbury 147 l, said to be ancestor of the Audley family of Norfolk ; and (2) Edmund Audley, Bishop of Rochester 1480, of Hereford 1493, and of Salisbury 1502, who d. 23 Aug. 1524.
