Generation 4 · angevin · 37 of 60 · Marriage alliance — does not wear the writ
Bertred de Mainwaring
Lady of Heighley by marriage
Daughter · wife · mother of this house
Alliance, not the writ. He carries Audley blood. She carries Cheshire into the keep.
Silver circlet
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Chronicle of this board
Cheshire alliance that built the fortress dynasty
Bertred, daughter of Ralph Mainwaring, married Henry de Audley. She does not carry the 1313 writ — it does not exist yet — but she is the woman in the hall when the gold fret becomes a coat of arms and Heighley rises in stone.
The blood of the barony runs through Henry. The geography of power runs through her. Later Stanley and Sneyd cadets mine the same Cheshire–Staffordshire nexus she sealed.
Alliance, not the writ. He carries Audley blood. She carries Cheshire into the keep.
Wardrobe
Emerald bliaut, gold fillet over braided chestnut hair, silk barbette, miniver-lined mantle, jeweled brooch, gold-buckled belt, soft leather shoes. The first great lady of the stone keep.
Weapons · animals · lands
None in the field. Her weapon is a marriage settlement that binds Mainwaring Cheshire to Audley Staffordshire.
Greyhound at the solar hearth; palfrey for the ride between halls.
- Heighley by marriage
- Mainwaring affinity in Cheshire