Adam De Aldithley

• Preferred Name: Adam De Aldithley^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: Sheriff of Warwickshire
  
• LdsBaptism: 5 FEB 1921 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Occupation: Sheriff of Leiscestershire
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 1st Lord of Stanley
  
• FSID: KDQN-2QS
  
• Birth: 1145 in Heighley Castle, Madeley, Staffordshire, England
  
• LdsEndowment: 15 MAY 1934 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 1st Baron Audley
  
• Death: 1211 in Heleigh Castle, Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.7795 LONG: E1.9171
  
• Occupation: The King's Thane
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Sir Knight (Norman)
  
• Burial: 1203 in Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.7795 LONG: E1.9171
  
• AFN: with note: Description: GLCB-HS
  
• National ID: with note: Description: 2684
  
• Occupation: Constable to Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Lord of Staffordshire
  
• Christening: in Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.7795 LONG: E1.9171
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Adam De Aldithley (Audley), Medieval Lord Of Staffordshire
  Adam de Aldithley: born about 1145-1149 at Aldithley, Staffordshire, England and died 1203-1211 at Aldithley, Staffordshire, England. He married, about 1170, Emma Fitz Orm (Emma de Darlaston). She was born about 1153 in England and died 1200 in Staffordshire, England. She was the daughter of Ralph Fitz Orm and Lettice de Montgomery.
  
  Children:
  1.) Adam de Aldithley: born about 1173 and died about 1212. He became Lord of the Manor during the reign of King Henry II. He is known to have served in Ireland with the De Laceys.
  
  2.) Henry de Aldithley (Audley): born about 1175 in Audley (Aldithley), Staffordshire, England and died before 19 Nov 1246 at Heleigh Castle, Staffordshire, England. He married Bertred Mainwaring (Meisnilwarin) about 1217 in Edgmond, Cheshire, England. She was born about 1196 in Mainwaring, Sussex, England, the daughter of Sir Ralph de Mainwaring and Amica of Chester (Amicia de Meschines). Bertred died about 1249.
  
  3.) William de Aldithley (Audley): born about 1177 in Aldithley, Staffordshire, England and died after 1248. He may be the Sir William de Audley, knight, taken prisoner in the Castle of Carrickfergus, Ireland and ordered released by the king 9 May1212. He is probably the William de Aldithele who married before 1227, Clemence (Clementia), daughter and coheiress of William de Blore of Blore and Grendon. Clemence marriage rights had been purchased by Henry de Audley (Aldithley), the older brother of William. Some published sources say William was Henry Younger son, rather than his brother, but no such son is listed for Henry, son of Adam de Audley (Aldithley). In any case Henry de Audley gave Clemence in marriage to William de Audley, and William thus acquired the manors of Blore and Grendon in Staffordshire. His son John de Audley of Blore was living in 1265. He married Petronella, who was surviving as his widow in 1279. John heir was William de Audley of Blore (adult in 1284, 1294) married the Constance, widow of Roger de Peulesdon and had a son Alan who lived about 1301. Alan married a Joan in 1306 and died without issue in 1311. The next heir of William was Hugh de Audley, clerk of Blore. He sold Blore and Grindon in 1314 to Joan, widow of John le Strange. She later married Sir Henry Brailsford.
  
  4.) James de Aldithley (Audley): born about 1179 in Aldithley (Audley), Staffordshire, England.
  
  5.) Lucas de Aldithley (Audley): born about 1180 in Aldithley (Audley), Staffordshire, England and died after 1210.
  
  6.) Isabella de Aldithley (Audley): born about 1184 in Aldithley (Audley), Staffordshire, England. Adam de Aldithley (Audley) was the first to use the name of his manor as a surname.
  
  In official documents his father had called himself simply Liulf fitz Liulf and his brothers were known as Liulf fitz Liulf and Roger fitz Liulf. The change of the name of the town and the family seemed to have gradually changed from Aldithley to Audley. As late as the 1600, Audley was considered by some to be a vulgar spelling of the name.
  
  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 4/2009:
  Adam of Aldithley1
  M, #47190, d. between 1203 and 1211
  Last Edited=19 Dec 2003
  Adam of Aldithley died between 1203 and 1211.1
  Children of Adam of Aldithley and Emma fitz Orm
  Adam of Aldithley b. b 1175, d. b 12121
  Henry of Aldithley + b. c 1175, d. 12461
  Citations
  [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 337. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  
  === !SOURCES: Royal Ancestors of Magna Cart ===
  !SOURCES: Royal Ancestors of Magna Carta Barons; by Carr P. Collins Jr. 1959, pg. 28
  
  === Notes for Adam de Aldithley ===
  Exchanged Stonlegh for Thalk on the Hill, Staffordshire (ABC-18148 calls it Talke) with cousin William (who was married to Joan STONLEGH).
  SOURCES: ABC 1167, 18148
  
  === Sources: Norr; Kraentzler 1059, 1141; Ay ===
  Sources: Norr; Kraentzler 1059, 1141; Ayers, p37, 359; 725. Norr: Adams I de Audley. K: Adam de Audley. Ayers: Adam of Aldithley; Custos of Cheshire 1188; died between 1203and 1211. On page 359 he is called Adam de Audeleye.
  
  === M L Call: Cht 11364 ===
  M L Call: Cht 11364
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.29; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === BIOGRAPHY: Lord of Stanley, Stafford, w ===
  BIOGRAPHY: Lord of Stanley, Stafford, which he exchanged for Thalk, Stafford with William Stanley; ancestor of the Barons Audley de Healey.
  
  === Had grant of manors of Aldithley, Talke, ===
  Had grant of manors of Aldithley, Talke, etc.,Staffordshire County from Nicholas deVerdon.
  
  === Constable to Hugh De Lacy, Earl of Ulste ===
  Constable to Hugh De Lacy, Earl of Ulster
  
  === !Complete Peerage 1:337 Turton 125 gives ===
  !Complete Peerage 1:337 Turton 125 gives Adam's GF as Adam de Aldithley
  
  === !BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection ===
  !BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection April, 1994
  
  === NAME: Adam De /ALDITHLEY (AUDLEY)/ BIRTH ===
  NAME: Adam De /ALDITHLEY (AUDLEY)/ BIRTH: PLAC Of, Heleigh, Audley, Staffordshire, England From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. NAME: Adam De /ALDITHLEY (AUDLEY)/ BIRTH: PLAC Of, Heleigh, Audley, Staffordshire, England From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Sources: Norr; Norr: Adam de Audley, s.p ===
  Sources: Norr; Norr: Adam de Audley, s.p., older brother of Henry. Probably hadsisters.
  
  === !Brown book 5, P C 636. The Earls of Glo ===
  !Brown book 5, P C 636. The Earls of Gloucester. Plantagenet Ancestry by Turton. Notes and Queries, 8th series, V6 p463 & 518. The Earls of Mercia.
  
  === Adam de Stanley, brother of Liulf de Aud ===
  Adam de Stanley, brother of Liulf de Audley (father of Adam de Audley) living temp. Stephen I and Henry II. [Burke's Peerage]
  
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  STANLEY
  
  Observations.-By a charter summarised by Dugdale, pr. by Round from Dugdale's copy of a copy, Adam, son of Liulf de Audley, granted to William de Stanley, son of Adam de Stanley, the grantor's avunculus, the whole of Stanley (co. Staffs), free from all the grantor's rights, for a yearly rent of twelve pence, to be paid by William and his heirs to Adam and his heirs; and Adam further gave William one half of Balterley, and the service of Liulf in respect of all that he held from the grantor, to hold to William and his heirs from the grantor and his heirs by the performance of forinsec service. The grants were stated to be made in exchange for Talk (o' the Hill); and Adam, doubting whether he could warrant Stanley, added the usmacl covenant. The places concerned lie in Staffordshire, on, or not far from, the Cheshire border, in a district known as the Moorland, which, because it was rough and apparently unprofitable, had not attracted the Normans. Balterley and Talk adjoin Audley; Stanley is some eight or nine miles further into Staffordshire.
  
  In 1086 Audley, half Balterley, and Talk, were held in chief by an Englishman, Gamel, (who was not the T.R.E. holder), and were assessed at 2 virgates, half a virgate, and one virgate respectively. Stanley does not appear in Domesday Book, but it was in Leek, and was probably included in Endon (one of the Audley holdings), which was among the King's wastes. There was there land for one or two ploughs.
  
  Round, who discusses the charter at length, remarks on the ambiguous nature of the word avunculus, which strictly meant "mother's brother," but quite early and quite frequently came to be used as a synonym for patruus. He suggests that Liulf de Audley and Adam de Stanley were brothers, because, as he thinks, Gamel's holding had been divided between them.
  
  That they were brothers is probable. If Adam de Stanley had been brother of the mother of Adam de Audley, the latter could have had no interest in or claim to Stanley. In fact, however, the Audleys were lords of Stanley, and the Stanleys held it from them at a rent. That the two were descended from Gamel is, on the existing evidence, incapable of proof.
  
  It seems possible that Round omitted to attach sufficient weight to two facts, namely, that the Stanleys were tenants of the Audleys; and that the Audleys were tenants of the Verdons. There is no very early evidence; but when Henry de Audley died in 1275-76, it was found that he held in Staffs. of Theobald de Verdon the castle and park of Heighley, with the town of Balterley, for a half knight's fee; and, in addition, Endon, Talk and Audley (then subject to dower); and a later inquisition in the same year discloses that he held in Rudyard (which is in Leek) 2 sh. rent of assize, and (not explicitly in Rudyard) 12 pence from Walter de Stanley; which can only be the rent provided by the charter. In 1391 William de Stanley is recorded as a tenant of Audley in the manor of Audley. Therefore in respect of these lands the Stanleys were never, so far as record evidence goes, anything more than tenants of the Audleys; and the Audleys were never more than tenants of the Verdons. In 1227 Henry de Audley, then becoming powerful, obtained from the King a confirmation of his title to his lands, including Audley, which, he said, he held of the gift of his then lord, Nicholas de Verdon. Now it is clear from the charter cited above that the Audleys and the Stanleys were in possession of their lands at least a generation before the date of that charter; which, upon the evidence as to Adam de Audley's activities, may have passed about 1200. Therefore the gift cited by Henry de Audley can refer only to the latest recognition by the overlord of a feoffment of many years earlier. In 1280-81 William de Audley was sued by his mother for one-third of 12 pence rent in Stanley, as dower. In 1316 the lord of the vills of Audley, Balterley and Endon was recorded as Nicholas de Audley. Endon, Talk and Audley were not held of Verdon by knight service, and the Audleys are not named in Bertram de Verdon's 1166 Carta. These returns are comparatively late; but Norman de Verdon was in possession of his Staffordshire lands at least so early as 1130, in which year he appears in the Pipe Roll as pardoned 2 sh. for Danegeld. His original lands in the county, namely Audley, Talk, half Balterley, and Stanley, do not together exceed a hide.
  
  The Audleys and the Stanleys had clearly been settled in their lands for some time before the charter, because they took their names from their holdings; and, since they bore different names, it is quite likely that the father of Liulf and Adam had no territorial surname. As Round remarks, Liulf's name is evidence that he was of English stock; and it is possible that the family was on the land before Verdon became its lord. Perhaps Gamel's lands were Liulf's "estate of inheritance," Stanley being an addition by favour of the new Norman lord, without a recorded feoffment. If so, Audley's inability to warrant would be explained; but the evidence hardly carries the enquirer even so far as this.
  
  Putting these speculations aside, the charter reads like the record of a final concord terminating proceedings, perhaps begun by an assize of mort d'ancestor, the object of which was to obtain for William de Stanley and his heirs a definition of his precise rights as Audley's tenant. As for Talk, if there was indeed any exchange of Talk for Balterley, it can only have been an exchange of sub-tenancies. If Adam de Stanley and his son had ever held it independently of Audley, they must have held of Verdon; and then they could have had no power to substitute another tenant for themselves.
  
  The Robert de Stanley, who in 1130 owed 20 marks of silver for having held the office of sheriff for 5 years, does not seem to be connected in any way with the ancestors of the Earls of Derby. In the same year he was pardoned 6 sh. for Danegeld, so that it appears that he was a tenant-in-chief. His lands have not been identified, but in 1156 "Maurice the sheriff" was similarly pardoned 6 sh. for Danegeld. Robert may have been of the Stanleys of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Yorkshire, Derby, Notts, or Essex, or the other Stanleys of Cheshire. [Complete Peerage XII/1:243-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
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  ADAM DE STANLEY, of Stanley, in Leek, Staffs, and possibly of Talk (o' the Hill), which he held from Liulf de Audley, was living temp. Stephen. [Complete Peerage XII/1:246, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  === - The stage for one of the central mil ===
  - The stage for one of the central military events of the Middle Ages, the Battle of Hastings, was set in January 1066 A.D. with the death of the English King, Edward the Confessor. Harold, Earl of Wessex, assumed the crown and fought off a strong military challenge in September from King Harold of Norway. In the confrontation between the two Harolds, the Norwegian King lost his life at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, near York. At the same time William, Duke of Normandy, gathered an army of adventurous knights from northern France and sailed the Channel to press his claim, having once been favored by Edward to succeed him. Only 19 days after Stamford Bridge, the surviving Harold of Wessex turned to face this new foe with exhausted troops. The showdown took place October 14, 1066, near Hastings. Harold's men wreaked havoc with their battleaxes, slings, and spears, but William inflicted heavy casualties with his archers and calvary. It was a day of fierce, seesaw fighting. In the afternoon the Norman warriors slew Harold. By nightfall William was victorious, thus earning his sobriquet, the "Conqueror". Would the English submit to William? Though he was crowned in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day of that year, rebellion threatened. It took twenty years for the Norman nobility to replace the existing order, and another two centuries before a new people began to emerge, speaking the blend of tongues, mainly old English, French, and Latin, from which modern English grew. Among the Norman Knights who accompanied William the Bastard into England in 1066, were Adam de Alditheley and his two sons, Lydulph and Adam. How long the Stanleys were seated at Audley, or Stonely before the conquest is not known, but Bishop Rutter assures us that they resided there long before the landing of William Duke of Normandy; and that the Conqueror was accompanied from Audithley , in Normandy, by Adam and his two sons. On William obtaining the Crown of England, he conferred upon Adam de A lditheley the elder, large and valuable possessions and other favours, as he did to all his followers. Adam de Aldithley appears to have been a great favorite of King William and his Queen Matilda. The seat of Red Castle in the county of Salop or Shropshire was awarded to Adam, with all the lands pertaining thereto.The family seems to have resided there until the completion of the building of Healy Castle, in the County of Stafford, whence they derived the title of Barons of Healy. Their last name came from the paternal estate of Audithlegh in Normandy.
  
  === In the county of Stafford, in the heart ===
  In the county of Stafford, in the heart of England, there was in veryancient times an old Saxon manor called Stoneley, a name compounded ofstone, and leah or ley (modern, lea), meaning a stoney meadow or field.There is still in that county a considerable town named Stone, which veryprobably, like the former, may bear a remembrance of the rugged surfaceof what is now one of the chief mining districts of the island. At thetime of the conquest, this estate belonged to Saxon Sir Henry deStoneley, the place of his residence in that day supplying the surname ofthe owner. Among the Norman knights who accompanied William the Bastard into Englandin 1066, were Adam de Alditheley and his two sons, Lydulph and Adam.These received , as did other of William's associates, large possessionsfrom the conquered lands as a reward for their services. Lydulph, theelder son, had a son Adam, and Adam, the younger, had a son William.These two young Normans, Adam and William both married wives of the Saxonfamily de Stoneley. (Ref. "The Stanley Families of America" as descendedfrom John, Timothy, and Thomas Stanley of Hartford, CT., 1636, compiledby Israel P. Warren, D.D., Printed by B. Thurston & Co., 1887, Portland,Maine.) Adam de Alditheley, Normandy Knight - Held Reveney in Cumberland. The stage was set for one of the central military events of the MiddleAges, the Battle of Hasting in January 1066, with the death of theEnglish King, Edward the Confessor. Harold, Earl of Wessex, assumed thecrown and fought off a strong military challenge in September from KingHarold of Norway. In the confrontation between the two Harolds, theNorwegian King lost his life at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, near York.At the same time William, Duke of Normandy, gathered an army ofadventurous knights from Northern France and sailed the Channel to presshis claim, having once been favored by Edward to succeed him. Only 19 days after Stamford Bridge, the surviving Harold of Wessex turnedto face the new foe with exh austed troops. The showdown took placeOctober 14, 1066, near Hastings. Harold's men wreaked havoc with theirbattle axes, slings, and spears, but William inflicted heavy casualtieswith his archers and cavalry. It was a day of fierce, seesaw, fighting.In the afternoon Norman warriors slew Harold. By nightfall William wasvictorious thus earning his sobriquet, the "Conqueror". Would the English submit to William? Though he was crowned in WestminsterAbbey on Christmas day, rebellion threatened. It took twenty years forthe Norman nobility to replace the existing order, and another twocenturies before a new people begin to emerge, speaking the blend oftongues, mainly old English, French, and Latin, from which modern Englishgrew. (Ref.- the above narrative was taken from a map of Great Britain inthe possession of Gene Stanley.)[xx.FTW]
  === Life Sketch ===
  Adam De Aldithley (Audley), Medieval Lord Of Staffordshire
  Adam de Aldithley: born about 1145-1149 at Aldithley, Staffordshire, England and died 1203-1211 at Aldithley, Staffordshire, England. He married, about 1170, Emma Fitz Orm (Emma de Darlaston). She was born about 1153 in England and died 1200 in Staffordshire, England. She was the daughter of Ralph Fitz Orm and Lettice de Montgomery.
  
  Children:
  1.) Adam de Aldithley: born about 1173 and died about 1212. He became Lord of the Manor during the reign of King Henry II. He is known to have served in Ireland with the De Laceys.
  
  2.) Henry de Aldithley (Audley): born about 1175 in Audley (Aldithley), Staffordshire, England and died before 19 Nov 1246 at Heleigh Castle, Staffordshire, England. He married Bertred Mainwaring (Meisnilwarin) about 1217 in Edgmond, Cheshire, England. She was born about 1196 in Mainwaring, Sussex, England, the daughter of Sir Ralph de Mainwaring and Amica of Chester (Amicia de Meschines). Bertred died about 1249.
  
  3.) William de Aldithley (Audley): born about 1177 in Aldithley, Staffordshire, England and died after 1248. He may be the Sir William de Audley, knight, taken prisoner in the Castle of Carrickfergus, Ireland and ordered released by the king 9 May1212. He is probably the William de Aldithele who married before 1227, Clemence (Clementia), daughter and coheiress of William de Blore of Blore and Grendon. Clemence marriage rights had been purchased by Henry de Audley (Aldithley), the older brother of William. Some published sources say William was Henry Younger son, rather than his brother, but no such son is listed for Henry, son of Adam de Audley (Aldithley). In any case Henry de Audley gave Clemence in marriage to William de Audley, and William thus acquired the manors of Blore and Grendon in Staffordshire. His son John de Audley of Blore was living in 1265. He married Petronella, who was surviving as his widow in 1279. John heir was William de Audley of Blore (adult in 1284, 1294) married the Constance, widow of Roger de Peulesdon and had a son Alan who lived about 1301. Alan married a Joan in 1306 and died without issue in 1311. The next heir of William was Hugh de Audley, clerk of Blore. He sold Blore and Grindon in 1314 to Joan, widow of John le Strange. She later married Sir Henry Brailsford.
  
  4.) James de Aldithley (Audley): born about 1179 in Aldithley (Audley), Staffordshire, England.
  
  5.) Lucas de Aldithley (Audley): born about 1180 in Aldithley (Audley), Staffordshire, England and died after 1210.
  
  6.) Isabella de Aldithley (Audley): born about 1184 in Aldithley (Audley), Staffordshire, England. Adam de Aldithley (Audley) was the first to use the name of his manor as a surname.
  
  In official documents his father had called himself simply Liulf fitz Liulf and his brothers were known as Liulf fitz Liulf and Roger fitz Liulf. The change of the name of the town and the family seemed to have gradually changed from Aldithley to Audley. As late as the 1600, Audley was considered by some to be a vulgar spelling of the name.
  
  === !BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection ===
  !BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection April, 1994
  
  === NAME: Adam De /ALDITHLEY (AUDLEY)/ BIRTH ===
  NAME: Adam De /ALDITHLEY (AUDLEY)/ BIRTH: PLAC Of, Heleigh, Audley, Staffordshire, England From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. NAME: Adam De /ALDITHLEY (AUDLEY)/ BIRTH: PLAC Of, Heleigh, Audley, Staffordshire, England From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Notes for Adam de Aldithley ===
  Exchanged Stonlegh for Thalk on the Hill, Staffordshire (ABC-18148 calls it Talke) with cousin William (who was married to Joan STONLEGH).
  SOURCES: ABC 1167, 18148
  
  === !Complete Peerage 1:337 Turton 125 gives ===
  !Complete Peerage 1:337 Turton 125 gives Adam's GF as Adam de Aldithley
  
  === BIOGRAPHY: Lord of Stanley, Stafford, w ===
  BIOGRAPHY: Lord of Stanley, Stafford, which he exchanged for Thalk, Stafford with William Stanley; ancestor of the Barons Audley de Healey.
  
  === !SOURCES: Royal Ancestors of Magna Cart ===
  !SOURCES: Royal Ancestors of Magna Carta Barons; by Carr P. Collins Jr. 1959, pg. 28
  
  === Sources: Norr; Norr: Adam de Audley, s.p ===
  Sources: Norr; Norr: Adam de Audley, s.p., older brother of Henry. Probably hadsisters.
  
  === Had grant of manors of Aldithley, Talke, ===
  Had grant of manors of Aldithley, Talke, etc.,Staffordshire County from Nicholas deVerdon.
  
  === M L Call: Cht 11364 ===
  M L Call: Cht 11364
  
  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 4/2009:
  Adam of Aldithley1
  M, #47190, d. between 1203 and 1211
  Last Edited=19 Dec 2003
  Adam of Aldithley died between 1203 and 1211.1
  Children of Adam of Aldithley and Emma fitz Orm
  Adam of Aldithley b. b 1175, d. b 12121
  Henry of Aldithley + b. c 1175, d. 12461
  Citations
  [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 337. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  
  === Sources: Norr; Kraentzler 1059, 1141; Ay ===
  Sources: Norr; Kraentzler 1059, 1141; Ayers, p37, 359; 725. Norr: Adams I de Audley. K: Adam de Audley. Ayers: Adam of Aldithley; Custos of Cheshire 1188; died between 1203and 1211. On page 359 he is called Adam de Audeleye.
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.29; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === Adam de Stanley, brother of Liulf de Aud ===
  Adam de Stanley, brother of Liulf de Audley (father of Adam de Audley) living temp. Stephen I and Henry II. [Burke's Peerage]
  
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  STANLEY
  
  Observations.-By a charter summarised by Dugdale, pr. by Round from Dugdale's copy of a copy, Adam, son of Liulf de Audley, granted to William de Stanley, son of Adam de Stanley, the grantor's avunculus, the whole of Stanley (co. Staffs), free from all the grantor's rights, for a yearly rent of twelve pence, to be paid by William and his heirs to Adam and his heirs; and Adam further gave William one half of Balterley, and the service of Liulf in respect of all that he held from the grantor, to hold to William and his heirs from the grantor and his heirs by the performance of forinsec service. The grants were stated to be made in exchange for Talk (o' the Hill); and Adam, doubting whether he could warrant Stanley, added the usmacl covenant. The places concerned lie in Staffordshire, on, or not far from, the Cheshire border, in a district known as the Moorland, which, because it was rough and apparently unprofitable, had not attracted the Normans. Balterley and Talk adjoin Audley; Stanley is some eight or nine miles further into Staffordshire.
  
  In 1086 Audley, half Balterley, and Talk, were held in chief by an Englishman, Gamel, (who was not the T.R.E. holder), and were assessed at 2 virgates, half a virgate, and one virgate respectively. Stanley does not appear in Domesday Book, but it was in Leek, and was probably included in Endon (one of the Audley holdings), which was among the King's wastes. There was there land for one or two ploughs.
  
  Round, who discusses the charter at length, remarks on the ambiguous nature of the word avunculus, which strictly meant "mother's brother," but quite early and quite frequently came to be used as a synonym for patruus. He suggests that Liulf de Audley and Adam de Stanley were brothers, because, as he thinks, Gamel's holding had been divided between them.
  
  That they were brothers is probable. If Adam de Stanley had been brother of the mother of Adam de Audley, the latter could have had no interest in or claim to Stanley. In fact, however, the Audleys were lords of Stanley, and the Stanleys held it from them at a rent. That the two were descended from Gamel is, on the existing evidence, incapable of proof.
  
  It seems possible that Round omitted to attach sufficient weight to two facts, namely, that the Stanleys were tenants of the Audleys; and that the Audleys were tenants of the Verdons. There is no very early evidence; but when Henry de Audley died in 1275-76, it was found that he held in Staffs. of Theobald de Verdon the castle and park of Heighley, with the town of Balterley, for a half knight's fee; and, in addition, Endon, Talk and Audley (then subject to dower); and a later inquisition in the same year discloses that he held in Rudyard (which is in Leek) 2 sh. rent of assize, and (not explicitly in Rudyard) 12 pence from Walter de Stanley; which can only be the rent provided by the charter. In 1391 William de Stanley is recorded as a tenant of Audley in the manor of Audley. Therefore in respect of these lands the Stanleys were never, so far as record evidence goes, anything more than tenants of the Audleys; and the Audleys were never more than tenants of the Verdons. In 1227 Henry de Audley, then becoming powerful, obtained from the King a confirmation of his title to his lands, including Audley, which, he said, he held of the gift of his then lord, Nicholas de Verdon. Now it is clear from the charter cited above that the Audleys and the Stanleys were in possession of their lands at least a generation before the date of that charter; which, upon the evidence as to Adam de Audley's activities, may have passed about 1200. Therefore the gift cited by Henry de Audley can refer only to the latest recognition by the overlord of a feoffment of many years earlier. In 1280-81 William de Audley was sued by his mother for one-third of 12 pence rent in Stanley, as dower. In 1316 the lord of the vills of Audley, Balterley and Endon was recorded as Nicholas de Audley. Endon, Talk and Audley were not held of Verdon by knight service, and the Audleys are not named in Bertram de Verdon's 1166 Carta. These returns are comparatively late; but Norman de Verdon was in possession of his Staffordshire lands at least so early as 1130, in which year he appears in the Pipe Roll as pardoned 2 sh. for Danegeld. His original lands in the county, namely Audley, Talk, half Balterley, and Stanley, do not together exceed a hide.
  
  The Audleys and the Stanleys had clearly been settled in their lands for some time before the charter, because they took their names from their holdings; and, since they bore different names, it is quite likely that the father of Liulf and Adam had no territorial surname. As Round remarks, Liulf's name is evidence that he was of English stock; and it is possible that the family was on the land before Verdon became its lord. Perhaps Gamel's lands were Liulf's "estate of inheritance," Stanley being an addition by favour of the new Norman lord, without a recorded feoffment. If so, Audley's inability to warrant would be explained; but the evidence hardly carries the enquirer even so far as this.
  
  Putting these speculations aside, the charter reads like the record of a final concord terminating proceedings, perhaps begun by an assize of mort d'ancestor, the object of which was to obtain for William de Stanley and his heirs a definition of his precise rights as Audley's tenant. As for Talk, if there was indeed any exchange of Talk for Balterley, it can only have been an exchange of sub-tenancies. If Adam de Stanley and his son had ever held it independently of Audley, they must have held of Verdon; and then they could have had no power to substitute another tenant for themselves.
  
  The Robert de Stanley, who in 1130 owed 20 marks of silver for having held the office of sheriff for 5 years, does not seem to be connected in any way with the ancestors of the Earls of Derby. In the same year he was pardoned 6 sh. for Danegeld, so that it appears that he was a tenant-in-chief. His lands have not been identified, but in 1156 "Maurice the sheriff" was similarly pardoned 6 sh. for Danegeld. Robert may have been of the Stanleys of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Yorkshire, Derby, Notts, or Essex, or the other Stanleys of Cheshire. [Complete Peerage XII/1:243-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
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  ADAM DE STANLEY, of Stanley, in Leek, Staffs, and possibly of Talk (o' the Hill), which he held from Liulf de Audley, was living temp. Stephen. [Complete Peerage XII/1:246, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  === Constable to Hugh De Lacy, Earl of Ulste ===
  Constable to Hugh De Lacy, Earl of Ulster
  
  === !Brown book 5, P C 636. The Earls of Glo ===
  !Brown book 5, P C 636. The Earls of Gloucester. Plantagenet Ancestry by Turton. Notes and Queries, 8th series, V6 p463 & 518. The Earls of Mercia.
  
  === In the county of Stafford, in the heart ===
  In the county of Stafford, in the heart of England, there was in veryancient times an old Saxon manor called Stoneley, a name compounded ofstone, and leah or ley (modern, lea), meaning a stoney meadow or field.There is still in that county a considerable town named Stone, which veryprobably, like the former, may bear a remembrance of the rugged surfaceof what is now one of the chief mining districts of the island. At thetime of the conquest, this estate belonged to Saxon Sir Henry deStoneley, the place of his residence in that day supplying the surname ofthe owner. Among the Norman knights who accompanied William the Bastard into Englandin 1066, were Adam de Alditheley and his two sons, Lydulph and Adam.These received , as did other of William's associates, large possessionsfrom the conquered lands as a reward for their services. Lydulph, theelder son, had a son Adam, and Adam, the younger, had a son William.These two young Normans, Adam and William both married wives of the Saxonfamily de Stoneley. (Ref. "The Stanley Families of America" as descendedfrom John, Timothy, and Thomas Stanley of Hartford, CT., 1636, compiledby Israel P. Warren, D.D., Printed by B. Thurston & Co., 1887, Portland,Maine.) Adam de Alditheley, Normandy Knight - Held Reveney in Cumberland. The stage was set for one of the central military events of the MiddleAges, the Battle of Hasting in January 1066, with the death of theEnglish King, Edward the Confessor. Harold, Earl of Wessex, assumed thecrown and fought off a strong military challenge in September from KingHarold of Norway. In the confrontation between the two Harolds, theNorwegian King lost his life at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, near York.At the same time William, Duke of Normandy, gathered an army ofadventurous knights from Northern France and sailed the Channel to presshis claim, having once been favored by Edward to succeed him. Only 19 days after Stamford Bridge, the surviving Harold of Wessex turnedto face the new foe with exh austed troops. The showdown took placeOctober 14, 1066, near Hastings. Harold's men wreaked havoc with theirbattle axes, slings, and spears, but William inflicted heavy casualtieswith his archers and cavalry. It was a day of fierce, seesaw, fighting.In the afternoon Norman warriors slew Harold. By nightfall William wasvictorious thus earning his sobriquet, the "Conqueror". Would the English submit to William? Though he was crowned in WestminsterAbbey on Christmas day, rebellion threatened. It took twenty years forthe Norman nobility to replace the existing order, and another twocenturies before a new people begin to emerge, speaking the blend oftongues, mainly old English, French, and Latin, from which modern Englishgrew. (Ref.- the above narrative was taken from a map of Great Britain inthe possession of Gene Stanley.)[xx.FTW]
  
  === - The stage for one of the central mil ===
  - The stage for one of the central military events of the Middle Ages, the Battle of Hastings, was set in January 1066 A.D. with the death of the English King, Edward the Confessor. Harold, Earl of Wessex, assumed the crown and fought off a strong military challenge in September from King Harold of Norway. In the confrontation between the two Harolds, the Norwegian King lost his life at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, near York. At the same time William, Duke of Normandy, gathered an army of adventurous knights from northern France and sailed the Channel to press his claim, having once been favored by Edward to succeed him. Only 19 days after Stamford Bridge, the surviving Harold of Wessex turned to face this new foe with exhausted troops. The showdown took place October 14, 1066, near Hastings. Harold's men wreaked havoc with their battleaxes, slings, and spears, but William inflicted heavy casualties with his archers and calvary. It was a day of fierce, seesaw fighting. In the afternoon the Norman warriors slew Harold. By nightfall William was victorious, thus earning his sobriquet, the "Conqueror". Would the English submit to William? Though he was crowned in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day of that year, rebellion threatened. It took twenty years for the Norman nobility to replace the existing order, and another two centuries before a new people began to emerge, speaking the blend of tongues, mainly old English, French, and Latin, from which modern English grew. Among the Norman Knights who accompanied William the Bastard into England in 1066, were Adam de Alditheley and his two sons, Lydulph and Adam. How long the Stanleys were seated at Audley, or Stonely before the conquest is not known, but Bishop Rutter assures us that they resided there long before the landing of William Duke of Normandy; and that the Conqueror was accompanied from Audithley , in Normandy, by Adam and his two sons. On William obtaining the Crown of England, he conferred upon Adam de A lditheley the elder, large and valuable possessions and other favours, as he did to all his followers. Adam de Aldithley appears to have been a great favorite of King William and his Queen Matilda. The seat of Red Castle in the county of Salop or Shropshire was awarded to Adam, with all the lands pertaining thereto.The family seems to have resided there until the completion of the building of Healy Castle, in the County of Stafford, whence they derived the title of Barons of Healy. Their last name came from the paternal estate of Audithlegh in Normandy.

• m. 1170

1. Adam De Audley, b. 1173 in Heleigh, Staffordshire, England     d. 1212 in Stanley, Derbyshire, England
2. Henry de Aldithley, b. 1175 in Heleigh, Staffordshire, England     d. 19 NOV 1246 in Mainwaring, Bersted, Sussex, England

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