John Touchet, 4th Lord Audley

Primary Sources

Inquisitions Post Mortem for John Tuchet, Knight. His various IPMs give three different death dates, 19, 20 and 27 Dec. 1408. James his son and heir was aged 10 years on 26 Dec.

• Sir John Touchet, 4th Lord Audley, Keeper of Llandovery & Brecknock Castles1,2,3,4,5,6
• M, #30446, b. 23 April 1371, d. 19 December 1408
• Father John Touchet, 1st Lord Audley7 b. c 1350, d. 23 Jun 1372
• Mother Margery de Grey7 b. c 1352, d. b 3 Nov 1405
• Sir John Touchet, 4th Lord Audley, Keeper of Llandovery & Brecknock Castles was born on 23 April 1371 at Heleigh, Staffordshire, England.2,4 He married Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford, Sheriff of Staffordshire, Somersetshire, & Dorsetshire and Alice Grenville, before 1398; They had 1 son (Sir John, 5th Lord Audley) and 2 daughters (Margaret, wife of Sir John Luttrell, & of Robert Coker, Esq; & Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Baskerville).2,3,4,5,6 Sir John Touchet, 4th Lord Audley, Keeper of Llandovery & Brecknock Castles died on 19 December 1408 at Heleigh, Staffordshire, England, at age 37.2,4
• Family Elizabeth Stafford b. 1375, d. c 1446
• Children
  • Elizabeth Touchet+2
  • Sir James Touchet, 5th Lord Audley, Chief Justice & Chamberlain of South Wales+2,4 b. c 1398, d. 23 Sep 1458
  • Margaret Touchet+8,2,3,4,5,6 b. 1399, d. 1 Jun 1438
• Citations
• 1.[S9409] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. I, p. 340/1, Vol. XII/2, p. 60/61; Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 111; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 31.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 722.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 61-62.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 217.
• 5.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 160.
• 6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 644-645.
• 7.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 215-216.
• 8.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 470.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1014.htm#...
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• John TOUCHET (1º B. Audley of Heleigh)
• Born: 23 Apr 1371
• Died: 19 Dec 1408
• Notes: REF FarisPA. Of Magna Charta Surety descent and descendant of Charlemagne. Served under Henry IV in the war against Glendower and the French
• Father: John TOUCHET
• Mother: Maud De MORTIMER
• Married: Isabel ?
• Children:
  • 1. James TOUCHET (2º B. Audley of Heleigh)
  • 2. Margaret TOUCHET
  • 3. Elizabeth TOUCHET
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/TOUCHET.htm#John TOUCHET (1º B. Audley of Heleigh)
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• John Tuchet, 4th Lord Audley (of Heleigh)1
• M, #47278, b. 23 April 1371, d. 19 December 1408
• Last Edited=12 May 2007
• John Tuchet, 4th Lord Audley (of Heleigh) was born on 23 April 1371.1 He was the son of John Tuchet.1 He married Isabel (?).1 He died on 19 December 1408 at age 37.1
• He succeeded to the title of 4th Lord Audley, of Heleigh [E., 1313] on 20 October 1403, by writ.1,2
• Child of John Tuchet, 4th Lord Audley (of Heleigh) and Isabel (?)
  • 1.James Tuchet, 5th Lord Audley (of Heleigh)+1 b. c 1398, d. 23 Sep 1459
• 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 340. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2.[S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 50. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p4728.htm#i47278
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• John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley, 1st Baron Tuchet (23 April 1371 — 19 December 1408) was an English peer.
• John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley was the son of Sir John Tuchet, called "Baron Audley", and his wife Maud, widow of Sir Richard de Willoughby.[1] His paternal grandparents were Sir John Tuchet (1327—1371) and his wife Joan Audley (1331–1393, daughter of James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley and first wife Lady Joan Mortimer).[1]
• In 1391, when his childless great-uncle Nicholas Audley, 3rd Baron Audley died, the Audley Barony was abeyant. Meanwhile he was created 1st Baron Tuchet in 1403 and received one-third of the share of the barony of Audley.
• In 1408 the Barony was revived, and John Tuchet became 4th Baron Audley.
• Before 1398, he married Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford and his first wife, Alice Grenville. They had one son, James, and two daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth. John was succeeded by his only son, James Tuchet.[1]
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tuchet,_4th_Baron_Audley
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• Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
• http://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&printsec=frontcover&d...
• Pg.61
• 9. JOHN LUTTRELL, Knt., of Dunster, Carhampton, and Kilton, Somerset, Blannicombe and Chilton, Devon, Stonehall (in Moulton), Suffolk, etc., son and heir, born about 1394-8 (aged varously 30, 34, or 48 in 1428). He married in or before 1422 MARGARET TUCHET, daughter of John Tuchet, 4th Lord Audley, by Elizabeth daughter of Humphrey Stafford, Knt. [see TUCHET 11 for her ancestry]. ....
• Pg.185
• JOAN DE AUDLEY, married JOHN TUCHET, Knt., of Markeaton, Derbyshire.
• JOHN TUCHET, of Ashwell, Rutland, married MAUD ___.
• JOHN TUCHET, Knt., 4th Lord Audley, married ELIZABETH STAFFORD.
• JAMES TUCHET, Knt., 5th Lord Audley, married ELEANOR HOLAND.
• CONSTANCE AUDLEY (or TUCHET), married ROBERT WHITNEY, Esq., of Whitney, Herefordshsire.
• Pg.190 SAME AS Pg.185
• Pg.216
• .... son, John, Knt. [4th Lord Audley]. He had a license for an oratory at Merton for two years in 1371. In June 1372 he left from England with the John de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke with reinforcements for Aquitaine. JOHN TUCHET was slain in the naval Battle off La Rochelle in the Bay of Biscay 23 June 1372. He widow, Maud, married (3rd) before Sept. 1378 JOHN DAUBRIDGECOURT (or DABRICHECOURT), K.G., of Elvaston and Mapperley, Derbyshire, Maplehurst and merdale (in Boughton Aluph), Kent, Cottesmore, Rutland, Etc., King's knight, Master Forester of Duffield Frith, Derbyshire, Steward of the Housebold of John of Gaunt ....
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• The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall
• http://books.google.com/books?id=59XcwoRK9jkC&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq=the...
• Pg.14
• 8. JOAN AUDLEY, m. Sir John Tuchet, of Markeaton, co. Derby, b. 25 July 1327, d sh. bef. 10 Jan. 1361/2, son of Thomas Tuchet and Joan. (CP I, 340: XII (2), 59)
• 9. JOHN TUCHET, slain off La Rochelle, 23 June 1372, said to have m. Margaret, dau. Sir Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March (Banks I, 100-107), d. bef. 3 Nov. 1405. (CP I, 340; XII (2), 59).
• 10. SIR JOHN TUCHET, b. 23 Apr. 1371, d. 19 Dec. 1408, 2nd Lord Tuchet, M.P., 1406-1408; m. Isabel, Living 3 May 1405. (CP I, 340-1; XII (2), 60)
• 11. JAMES TUCHET, 4th Lord Augley, b. c. 1398, d. 23 Sept. 1459, M.P., 1421-1455; m. (1) c. 1415, MARGARET de ROS (1-8), liv. 1423, q.v. (CP I, 340-341; XI, 103)
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• Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
• http://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&printsec=frontcover&d...
• Pg.174
• 9. AGNES LONGLAND, .... His widow Agnes married (2nd) before 1414-15 (date of settlement) (as his 2nd wife) ROBERT COKER, Esq., of Lydeard St. Lawrence, Somerset, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 1422-3. They had no issue. In 1418 the bishop granted licenses for one year to Robert and his wife, Agnes, to have masses and other divine services celebrated in their presence. His wife Agnes, died shortly before 21 Sept. 1419. He married (3rd MICHAELA __, widow successively of John Plecy and Robert Derby. They had no issue. She died in Sept. 1424. He married (4th) before 1432 (date of pardon for marrying without royal license) MARGARET TUCHET, widow of John Luttrell, Knt. (died 30 June 1430) [see Lowell 12], of Dunster, Somerset, and daughter of John Tuchet, Knt., 4th Lord Audley, by Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Stafford, Knt. [see TUCHET 11 for her ancestry]. His wife Margaret died 1 June 1438. Following her death, ....
• Pg.457
• 12. JOHN LUTTRELL, Knt., of Dunster, Carhampton, and Kilton, Somerset, Blannicombe and Chilton, Devon, .... He married in or before 1422 MARGARET TUCHET, daughter of John Tuchet, Knt., 4th Lord Audley (descendant of King John), by Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Stafford, Knt. [see TUCHET 11 for her ancestry]. ....
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REF FarisPA. Of Magna Charta Surety descent and descendant of Charlemagne. Served under Henry IV in the war against Glendower and the French

Owner of Nether Stowey Castle.

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John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley was the son of Sir John Tuchet, called "Baron Audley", and his wife Maud, widow of Sir Richard de Willoughby.[1] His paternal grandparents were Sir John Tuchet (1327—1371) and his wife Joan Audley (1331–1393, daughter of James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley and first wife Lady Joan Mortimer).[1]

In 1391, when his childless great-uncle Nicholas Audley, 3rd Baron Audley died, the Audley Barony was abeyant. Meanwhile, he was created 1st Baron Tuchet in 1403 and received one-third of the share of the barony of Audley.

In 1408 the Barony was revived, and John Tuchet became 4th Baron Audley.

Before 1398, he married Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford and his first wife, Alice Grenville. They had one son, James, and two daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth. John was succeeded by his only son, James Tuchet.[1]

Source: Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham. Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families, Genealogical Publishing Com, 2005. pg 831.