Lady Joan Martin, Baroness Audley

Primary Sources

CP 25/1/285/30, number 136.
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County: Staffordshire. Derbyshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: One week from St Martin, 10 Edward II [18 November 1316].
Parties: James de Perers and Ela, his wife, querents, and Nicholas de Audeleye and Joan, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 5 marks, 11 shillings and 8 pence of rent in Onecote and Enedon' and 2 parts of the manors of Ou[er]e Longesdon' and Nethere Longesdon' and a third part of the manor of Alstanesfeld' in the county of Stafford and a moiety of the manor of Tyssynton' in the county of Derby.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: James has acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Nicholas. For this, Nicholas and Joan have granted to James and Ela the tenements and have rendered them to them in the court, to hold to James and Ela, of Nicholas and Joan and the heirs of Nicholas for the lives of James and Ela, rendering yearly 1 rose at the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, and doing to the chief lords all other services. And after the decease of James and Ela the tenements shall revert to Nicholas and Joan and the heirs of Nicholas, quit of the heirs of James and Ela, to hold of the chief lords for ever.
Warranty: Warranty by Nicholas and Joan and the heirs of Nicholas.
Source: Abstracts of Feet of Fines

He [Nicholas Audley] married in 1312, without license, Joan, widow of Henry, EARL OF LINCOLN, the only child that had issue of William MARTIN [LORD MARTIN], by Eleanor, widow of John DE MOHUN, of Dunster, daughter of Sir Reynold FITZ PIERS. He died in 1316, shortly before 6 December, aged 27. His widow died between February 1319/20 and 1 Aug. 1322.

[Complete Peerage I:339]

"dower was assigned to his second wife, a Welsh lady, Joan , sister of William , sixth baron Martin of Cemais ."

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