Emma de Audley

• Preferred Name: Emma de Audley^{[1] [2]}
  
• Alternate Name: Emma de Audley
  
• Alternate Name: verch Griffith
  
• Alternate Name: Emma de Aldithley
  
• Gender: F
  
• LdsBaptism: 10 FEB 1938 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 1 JUN 1220 in Heleigh, Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.7795 LONG: E1.9171
  
• FSID: LYW7-SX7
  
• Alt. Death: 1267 in Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.1827 LONG: E2.5305
  
• LdsSealingToParents: 9 AUG 1975 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Alt.+Date+of+Death: 22 JUN 1308 with note: Description: 22 June 1308 Survived the merge.
  
• Death: AFT 10 NOV 1278 in England
  
• LdsEndowment: 26 AUG 1938 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Biography
  Emma de Audley
  
  Father: Henry de Audley of Heleigh (in Audley), Staffordshire
  Some sources list the father as James Audley who is actually her uncle. This is documented in a Patent Roll entry regarding her sister: "Lincence, at the instance of James de Alditheleg', for Ankeretta, his niece, to marry..." Presumably James was acting as the children's guardian after the death of their father, Henry. Some sources also don't identify Henry as having a brother James. In addition to the above, Cockayne also links them as brothers.
  
  Mother: Bertrade de Mainwairing, daughter of Ralph de Mainwairing, Seneschal of Chester, and Amice of Chester, daughter of the Earl of Chester, Ranulph de Gernons, by Maud of Gloucester, granddaughter of Henry I, King of England, son of William the Conquerer.
  
  Husband
  Gruffudd ap Madoc, son of Madog ap Gruffudd, by his wife, Iseult.
  "Gruffudd ap Madog, lord of Bromfield between 1236 and 1269, like so many Powysian leaders of the thirteenth century...found a wife in the marchland. In his case it was Emma, of the powerful and influential Audley family." Marriage date must have occurred before 1 July 1244.
  
  Sons by Gruffudd:
  1.) Madoc (Madog Fychan), died 1277
  
  2.) Llywelyn
  
  3.) Gruffudd, Y Barwn Gwyn (The White Baron), died 1289
  
  4.) Owain (Rector of Blanckerbir)
  
  "All these four sons were witnesses to the settlement made by their father Prince Gruffudd on their mother Emma, and after his death the four joined in a renewal or confirmation of their father's settlement, and made to it considerable additions; they must therefore all have been of age at the time of their father's death." This contrasts with Yorke who says, "The relations and friends of the family contended with Emma for the direction of the children; sensible, should they be brought up by their mother, their affections must be lost to their country. She had the custody of the two elder, but keeping with difficulty the possession of them, and of the lands of her Welsh jointure, threw both to the care of Edward, alleging that their ancestors had sworn allegiance to the Kings of England, and they were feudally in his wardship. The King accordingly took the children, and committed the charge of them and their estates, Madog the elder to John Earl Warren, and Llywelyn to Roger Mortimer." However, the latter statement is an error, acknowledged by the author in a later edition. The children named Llywelyn and Gruffudd [turned over to King Edward] were actually from the next generation, sons of Madog Fychan, grandsons of Emma. They were murdered in 1281.
  
  Gruffydd and Emma's son Gruffydd died in 1289, leaving a son, Madog Crupl, who "was still a child at the death of his father Gruffydd Fychan".
  
  Daughters by Gruffudd:
  1.) Ankaret/Angharad
  
  2.) Gwenllian
  
  3.) Margery
  
  Close Roll quote: "Pro Emma que fuit uxor Henrici Tuschet.—Mandatum est Johanni Extraneo, justiciario Cestrie, quod de terris que fuerunt Henrici Tuschet, tarn incomitatu Cestrie quam in comitatu Salop', Emme que fuerit (sic) uxor predicti Henrici plenam dotem habere faciat. Teste ut supra."
  
  Patent Roll quote: Westminster, 7 May 1258 - "Whereas Griffin de Brumfeud has withdrawn from the king's fealty, whereby [he has forfeited] the whole land which he held in dower of his wife in Legh Cumber[ay] of the inheritance of the heir of Henry Tuschet a minor in the ward of John Mansell, treasurer of York, which land is extended by the sheriff of Salop at 54s. 11d. a year, the king has granted the same to the said John until Griffin return to the king's peace or other thing happen in respect of his said wife."
  
  "The complexities of frontier living were scarcely more evident than in the case of Emma d'Audley, relict of Gruffudd Maelor (d. 1269) of northern Powys, who was compelled to sue her son Llywelyn for the restoration of what appears to have been dower land in the commotes of Cynllaith and Nanheudwy. He had to be summoned twice before he relinquished the property. A conflict of interests between Emma's English-style dower claims and her son's inheritance in Wales may lie at the heart of the dispute, and it is certainly conceivable that Welsh heirs of mixed marriages were reluctant to hand over land to their English mothers into the purview of an alternative authority...But even as she was suing her son, Emma was seeking reinstatment in two manors in the Maelor district of norther Powys - Overton in Maelor Saesneg (English Maelor) and Eyton in Maelor Gymraeg (Welsh Maelor) - from which she claimed to have been evicted by the powerful LLywelyn ap Gruffudd during the recent waring between England and Wales."
  
  The last record of Emma that has been found is a court case dated 10 Nov 1278, so she died sometime after that date.
  
  Memorial
  history
  Henry de Aldithley [b], Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, b abt 1172, of Heleigh, Staffordshire, England, d sh bef Nov 1246. He md Bertrade de Mainwaring 1217, daughter of Sir Ralph de
  
  === (21) dead ===
  (21) dead
  
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  === Sources: Royal Descents; Norr; Dictionar ===
  Sources: Royal Descents; Norr; Dictionary of National Biography;Ayers, p37. Norr: Griffith ap Modoc of Lower Powis. Descents: Emma de Audley, married Gruffudd ap Madog, Prince of PowysFadog. Ayers: Emma de Aldithley, married Gryffydd ap Madog. ***** SOURCES: 1. Bartrum, Peter C., _Welsh Genealogies, A.D. 300-1400_, "Bleddyn apCynfyn 4", page 31. 2. Cokayne, _Complete Peerage_, Vol. I, p. 337. 3. Norr, p. 9.
  
  === Emma Audley ===
  Emma Audley
  d/o Henry Audley & 2nd wife Bertred Maindwaring
  b- 1218 - Heleigh Caste, Audley, Staffordshire,England
  m-1- Henry Touchet d- 8 Jan 1242
  m-2- after 1242 - Gruffydd ap Madog, of Powys
  d- after 1277 - Powys, Wales
  
  1270 - dower in Embral (Embeshall)
  
  DEATH: Also shown as Died Great Britain.

• m. ABT 1241 in Audley, Staffordshire, England

• m. 1243 in Audley, Staffordshire, England
• m. 1246 in Shropshire, England

1. Margaret ferch Gruffudd, b. 1261 in Montgomeryshire, Wales     d. 3 JUN 1314 in Aldford, Cheshire, England
2. Gruffydd Fychan ap Gruffydd - Lord of Glyndwrdwy, b. ABT 1245 in Powys, Wales     d. 1289 in Powys,Montgomeryshire,Wales
3. Angharad ferch Gruffydd, b. ABT 1248 in Bromfield, Dinas Bran, Yale, Denbigh County, Wales     d. 22 JUN 1308 in Wem, Shropshire, England

1. Title: Stanley Family
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_family;
   
2. Title: Emma de Audley (1218-1270), Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
   Author: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p555.htm#i16676 index to pedigrees
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p555.htm#i16676;
   Note: Father Henry de Audley, Sheriff of Shropshire & Staffordshire2,3 b. 1175, d. c Nov 1246 Mother Bertrade de Mainwaring2,3 b. c 1190, d. a 3 Nov 1249 Emma de Audley was born circa 1218 at of Heleigh, Staffordshire, England.4 She married Henry Touchet, son of Thomas Touchet and Elizabeth (Isambella), circa 1241.4,2,3 Emma de Audley married Gruffudd ap Madog, Lord of Bromfield, Dinas Bran, son of Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor and Gwyladys verch Ithel, after 1 January 1242; They had 4 sons (Madoc; Llywelyn; Owain, Rector of Blanckebir; & Gruffudd) & 1 daughter (Ankaret, wife of William le Boteler, & of Sir Robert de Neville).4,2,3 Emma de Audley died after 22 December 1270.3 Family 1: Henry Touchet b. c 1200, d. b 8 Jan 1242 Family 2: Gruffudd ap Madog, Lord of Bromfield, Dinas Bran d. 1269 Children: Margery ferch Griffin ap Madog+ d. a 1315 Gryffydd Vychan ap Gryffydd+ Ankaret ferch Gruffudd+3 b. c 1248, d. a 22 Jun 1308 Citations: [S4827] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. II, p. 231; The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, by Gary Boyd Roberts, p. 398; OFHS Newsletter, Sept. 1995, p. 58; Wallop Family, Vol. 4, line 129. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 200. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 281. [S11588] Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 110.
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