350 COMPLETE PEERAGE aumale ence, Christchurch {i.e. Cree Church), London, when the Barony became extinct. C) He was hur. in a chapel he had erected at Saffron Walden. M.I. Will dat. 19 Apr. 1 544, pr. i 8 Feb. 1 544/5. His widow m. George Norton. AUDLEY OF DRIER i.e. " AuDLEY OF Orier, CO. Armagh, " Barony [I.] (Tuchet)^ cr. 161 6 with the Earldom of Castlehaven [1.], which see ; extinct 1777. AUGHRIM sec AGHRIM A U M A L E C) Observations. — The town of Aumale, Q on the Br^le, in Normandy, was formerly the chief place of a small comte, to which it gave its name. The comte probably became such owing to the fact that the first Count thereof, Stephen, was already of comital rank, being son of the disinherited Count of Cham- pagne : or because his mother, the first Countess, was of the ducal house of Normandy. Being already Counts, the acquirement of an English Earldom did not alter the status of the family, and consequently the title of Earl of Yorkshire, bestowed on one of them by Stephen, was soon discontinued. " It may be presumed that the Norman Counts who accompanied the Con- queror to England would not deem their dignity augmented by the acquisition of a title taken from the Saxon Ealdormen or Earls. " {Courthope^ p. 19). After the capture of Aumale by Philip Augustus in 1204, the " Counts of Aumale," of the family of Forz, still retained that title, though their connection with Aumale had wholly ceased. The English Kings, in The plate seems to have been made on the marriage. Its height is rather more than 6in. and its width rather less than 5. The armory of this family of Audley is a curious subject. The arms of Harper, Lord Mayor of London 1561, and founder of Bedford School, must be in some way connected with the later coat of Audley, but it is not easy to see how. [ex inform. H.Gough, who has a tracing of the plate referred to.) The later and well-known coat is on the Garter plate, 1540, and was probably conferred, or confirmed, in 1538, on the creation of the Peerage. C) He had two daughters and coheirs by his 2nd wife, viz.. (i) Mary, who d. unm. (2) Margaret, who m., istly, Lord Henry Dudley, who d. s.p. 1557. She m., 2ndly, as his 2nd wife, Thomas (Howard), 4th Duke of Norfolk, by whom she had a s. (who was h. to his mother), viz., Thomas Howard, sum. in 1597 as Lord Howard de fValden, and cr. in 1600 Earl of Suffolk. — See Howard de Walden, Barony, cr. 1597. ^^ appears to have had two brothers, both also named Thomas, who inher- ited the manors of Berechurch and Gosbecks, near Colchester. () The re-writing of this article has been kindly undertaken by G.W. Watson. (*■) Aumale (Alba Maria, Jlhemarla, or Aumahum) was usually written in French, till about the end of the 13th century, Aubemarle or Albemalle : in the 14th and 15th centuries, Aubemalle, Aubmalle, Aubmale, Aumalle, or Aumale : and in the 1 6th and 17th centuries, Aumalle or Aumale. In England, the title of Edward (after- wards Duke of York) was always spelt Aumarle, both in English and in Norman- French, by contemporary writers. The quaint form " Aumale " is to be found only in English works of recent date.
