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Birth:          8 Jan 1313 Dartington, England
Death:          1 Apr 1386 

Notes
b 3 Jan 1316 or 8 Jan 1313
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Audley,_2nd_Baron_Audley
James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley (8 January 1312/13 – 1 April 1386) of Heighley 
Castle, Staffordshire, was an English peer. He was the son and heir of Nicholas 
Audley, 1st Baron Audley (1289–1316) by his wife Joan FitzMartin (died Feb. 1320 / 1 
Aug. 1322)[clarification needed], who was the daughter of William FitzMartin (died 
1324), feudal baron of Barnstaple, Devon, and was posthumously the eventual sole 
heiress of her brother William FitzMartin (died 1326) to the feudal barony of 
Barnstaple.[1]
Marriages and children[edit]

James Audley married twice. His first marriage, before 13 June 1330, was to Joan 
Mortimer, daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March by his wife Joan de Geneville, 
2nd Baroness Geneville. By Joan he had four children. Their eldest son, Nicholas, 
succeeded his father in the title, becoming Nicholas Audley, 3rd Baron Audley 
(c.1328–1391) – he married Elizabeth Beaumont, a daughter of Henry de Beaumont, 4th 
Earl of Buchan, but died without legitimate issue whereupon his nephew John Tuchet, 
4th Baron Audley inherited the title and a one-third share of the lands of the barony of 
Audley.[2] Their second son Roger predeceased his father.[3] Joan (1331–1393), their 
first daughter, married Sir John Tuchet (1327–1371) – their son John (Nicholas's 
nephew) inherited the Audley barony.[2] Audley's last child by Joan was Margaret 
(born pre-1351, died 1410/11) who married Sir Roger Hillary.[4]

After the death of his first wife, Audley married before December 1351 to Isabel 
LeStrange, daughter of Roger le Strange, 5th Baron Strange (c. 1327–1382) of 
Knokyn. They had four children: three sons, Thomas, Rodeland (or Rowland) and 
James, who all died childless,[4] and a daughter, Margaret Audley (died 1373), who 
married Fulk FitzWarin, 4th Baron FitzWarin (1341–1374) of Whittington Castle, 
Shropshire and Alveston, Gloucestershire.[5] Fulk's mother was said to be Joan de 
Beaumont, a daughter of Henry de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Buchan,[6] and was thus a 
sister of the wife of Fulk's half-brother-in-law Nicholas Audley, 3rd Baron Audley. In 
1392 Margaret's 3-year-old grandson Fulk FitzWarin, 6th Baron FitzWarin (1389–1407) 
inherited the manor of Tawstock in Devon, thought to have been a later seat of the 
feudal barons of Barnstaple,[7] which had been settled in 1370 by James Audley, 2nd 
Baron, in tail male successively to his three childless sons from his second marriage.
[4]

Succession[edit]

James Audley had settled the feudal barony of Barnstaple by means of an entail on his 
heirs male, with remainder to the crown.[3] As all his sons from both his marriages died 
childless, the barony became the inheritance of King Richard II, who granted the 
barony to his half-brother John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, in tail-male.[3]

Parents
AUDLEY Nicholas (11 Nov 1289 - AFT 24 Mar 1316)
FITZ MARTIN Joan (ABT 1291 - BEF 1 Aug 1322)

Siblings
AUDLEY James (8 Jan 1313 - 1 Apr 1386)
AUDLEY Alice (ABT 1315 - AFT 1358)

Marriage To DE MORTIMER Joane (ABT 1313 - ABT 1350)
    m. BEF 13 Jun 1330 

Notes

Parents
DE MORTIMER Roger (3 May 1287 - 29 Nov 1330)
DE GENEVILLE Joan (2 Feb 1286 - 19 Oct 1356)

Children by DE MORTIMER Joane ABT 1313 - ABT 1350
AUDLEY Joan (1331 - 1393)

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