Sir Humphrey Audley, Kt.

Primary Sources

1463/4 12 Kal. April. (21 March.) Siena. (f. 153.)
To Humphrey Audeley, nobleman, donsel, and Elisabeth, noblewoman, relict of James Lottrell, of the diocese of Bath and Wells. Absolution from sentence of excommunication incurred by their having formerly, not being ignorant that they were related in the second degree of affinity, contracted marriage per verba legitime de presenti, and consummated it, although they did not have it solemnized before the church; with dispensation to contract the said marriage anew (de novo), have it solemnized before the church and remain therein, decreeing the offspring born, if any, and that to be born of the marriage legitimate for all legal purposes. (fn. 2)Oblate siquidem nobis. (G. de Piccolominibus. | lxxx. A. de Urbino. N. [de] Benzis.) [In the margin: Februarii and Jo. Horn, O. Principis. 2/3 p.]

Source: 'Vatican Regesta 513: 1464', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 11, 1455-1464, ed. J A Twemlow (London, 1921), pp. 677-678. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol11/... [accessed 22 September 2017].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Touchet,_5th_Baron_Audley (Humphrey's father)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102049446

"Sir Humphrey Touchet (born circa 1435 - May 6, 1471). He married Elizabeth Courtenay, widow of Sir James Luttrell. Like his father, he supported the House of Lancaster. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Tewkesbury and tried before Richard, Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Norfolk. Executed with other Lancastrian leaders in the Market Square he was buried under the pavement in the Chapel of St Nicolas, in the Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin."

From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Humphrey Audley:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p4730.htm#i47298

Sir Humphrey Audley [1]

• M, #47298,
• b. after 1430,
• d. 4 May 1471
• Last Edited=7 Sep 2005
• Consanguinity Index=0.02%

Sir Humphrey Audley was born after 1430. He was the son of James Tuchet, 5th Lord Audley (of Heleigh) and Eleanor de Holland.[1]

He died on 4 May 1471 at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, killed in action.[1]

He fought in the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471.[1]

An ancestor of the Audley family of Norfolk.[1]

Citations

• 1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 341. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.