Isabel le Strange, Baroness Audley

Primary Sources

CP 25/1/288/46, number 578.
Link: Image of document at AALT
County: Devon. Somerset.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Three weeks from Easter, 34 Edward III [26 April 1360].
Parties: James de Audelegh' of Heleye and Isabel, his wife, querents, and Hugh de Newehalle, the parson of the church of Southmolton', and Philip War[..e?]wyk, chaplain, deforciants.
Property: The manors of Warkelegh', Merwode, Ilfridecombe, Upexe, Seintemaryechurche, Bearecharterey and Wolryngton' by Fremyngton' and 2 messuages, 1 carucate and 1 ferling of land, 20 acres [of meadow], 10 acres of wood and 18 pounds of rent in Cridye Peyteuyn, Hassok', Cridynton', Shillyngford' and Tottenesse and the advowsons of the churches of Saterlegh' and of the manors of Warkelegh' and Merwode in the county of Devon and the manor of Pulle and the advowson of the church of the same manor in the county of Somerset.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Hugh and Philip have granted to James and Isabel the manors, 1 messuage, 1 ferling of land, 2 acres of meadow, 1 acre of wood and the rent and the advowsons and have rendered them to them in the court, to hold to James and Isabel, of the chief lords for the lives of James and Isabel. And besides Hugh and Philip granted for themselves and the heirs of Hugh that 1 messuage, 1 carucate of land, 18 acres of meadow and 9 acres of wood in the vill of Cridye Peyteuyn - which Christian, who was the wife of Thomas Wyger, held for life of the inheritance of Hugh on the day the agreement was made, and which after the decease of Christian ought to revert to Hugh and Philip and the heirs of Hugh - after the decease of Christian shall remain to James and Isabel, to hold together with the aforesaid manors, tenements and advowsons of the chief lords for the lives of James and Isabel. And after the decease of James and Isabel 14 pounds of rent in the vill of Tottenesse shall remain to James, son of the same James and Isabel, and the male heirs of his body, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders (1) to the heirs of the bodies of James de Audelegh' and Isabel and (2) to the right heirs of James de Audelegh'. And the manors of Warkelegh', Merwode, Ilfridecombe, Bearecharterey and Wolryngton' and the advowsons of the churches of Saterlegh' and of the manors of Warkelegh' and Merwode shall remain to Thomas, brother of the aforesaid James, son of James and Isabel, and the male heirs of his body, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders (1) to the heirs of the bodies of James de Audelegh' and Isabel and (2) to the right heirs of James de Audelegh'. And the manors of Upexe and Pulle and 1 messuage, 1 carucate of land, 18 acres of meadow, 9 acres of wood and 4 pounds of rent in the vills of Cridye Peyteuyn, Hassok' and Cridynton' and the advowson of the church of the manor of Pulle shall remain to Roland, brother of the aforesaid James, son of James and Isabel, and the male heirs of his body, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders (1) to Oliver, brother of the same Roland, and the male heirs of his body, (2) to the heirs of the body of James de Audelegh' and Isabel and (3) to the right heirs of James de Audelegh'. And the manor of Seintemaryechurche, 1 messuage, 1 ferling of land, 2 acres of meadow and 1 acre of wood in the vill of Shillyngford' shall remain to the aforesaid Oliver and his aforesaid heirs, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders (1) to the aforesaid Roland and his aforesaid heirs, (2) to the heirs of the bodies of James de Audelegh' and Isabel and (3) to the right heirs of James de Audelegh'. For this: James de Audelegh' and Isabel have given them 300 pounds sterling.
Source: Abstracts of Feet of Fines

Said to be a Fitz Walter or a le Strange.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Audley,_2nd_Baron_Audley

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 [SIC: Blanche] (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]