Lasse & Anita - Person Sheet
Lasse & Anita - Person Sheet
NameJames Touchet 5th Baron Audley , Half 12C14R
Birthca 1398
Death23 Sep 1459
Spouses
Marriage1415
ChildrenAnne (ca1424-1503)
2Eleanor Holland , Half 7C16R
Birth1406
FatherEdmund Holland Earl of Kent (1383-1408)
MotherConstance Plantagenet (1374-1416)
Marriage1430
ChildrenUNNAMED
 Margaret (ca1431-<1481)
 Eleanor (ca1442-)
Notes for James Touchet 5th Baron Audley
James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet (c. 1398 – 23 September 1459) of Heleigh Castle was an English peer.

James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, son of Elizabeth Stafford and her husband
John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley, was a distinguished veteran of the Hundred Years' War. In the opening phase of the Wars of the Roses he raised troops from his estates in Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire and commanded the Lancastrian force that moved to block the Yorkist Earl of Salisbury's route to Ludlow where he intended linking up with the rest of the Yorkist army.

The two forces clashed in the
Battle of Blore Heath on 23 September 1459 and Audley was killed by Sir Roger Kynaston of Stocks near Ellesmere (Kynaston incorporated emblems of the Audley coat-of-arms into his own). Audley's Cross still stands on the battlefield marking the spot where he died.

Audley was buried in
Darley Abbey, north of Derby, about 40 miles (64 km) away from Blore Heath. Unfortunately, the Abbey no longer stands, so his final resting place is no longer marked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tuchet,_5th_Baron_Audley
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