Act by act

The Chronicle

Highest title-holder of each generation, from the Domesday thane to the 1997 abeyance. Open any name for the full avatar: wardrobe, weapons, furniture, lands, structures.

1. 

   fl. 1086 · King's Thane of Staffordshire

   Gamel

   Tenant-in-chief recorded in Domesday

2. 

   c. 1115 – after 1129 · Lord of Aldithley under the de Verduns

   Liulf de Aldithley

   Paid the 1129 murder-fine and lived

3. 

   c. 1125 – 1200 · Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire

   Adam de Aldithley

   Deputy then sheriff; granted Stanleigh 1190

4. 

   fl. 1192 – 1223 · First of the name Stanley

   William de Stanleigh

   Recorded as William de Stanle, 1203

5. 

   c. 1175 – 1246 · Marcher lord, founder of Heighley

   Henry de Audley

   Built Heighley, Red Castle, and Hulton Abbey

6. 

   c. 1220 – 1272 · Justiciar of Ireland; Justice of Chester

   James de Audley

   Crown officer on two seas

7. 

   c. 1258 – 1299 · Lord of Heighley

   Nicholas de Audley of Heighley

   Held the castle on the eve of the writ

8. 

   c. 1289 – 1316 · 1st Baron Audley of Heleigh

   Nicholas Audley

   Writ of summons, 8 January 1313

9. 

   1312 – 1386 · 2nd Baron Audley, KG

   James Audley

   Hero of Poitiers, 1356

10. 

    c. 1328 – 1391 · 3rd Baron Audley

    Nicholas Audley

    Last of the male Audley line of Heighley

11. 

    1371 – 1408 · 4th Baron Audley

    John Tuchet

    Abeyance terminated 1408

12. 

    c. 1398 – 1459 · 5th Baron Audley

    James Tuchet

    Killed at Blore Heath, 23 September 1459

13. 

    c. 1420 – 1490 · 6th Baron Audley

    John Tuchet

    Survived the Roses; died in his bed

14. 

    c. 1463 – 1497 · 7th Baron Audley

    James Tuchet

    Attainted and executed, 1497

15. 

    c. 1483 – 1558 · 8th Baron Audley

    John Tuchet

    Restored 1512

16. 

    d. 1560 · 9th Baron Audley

    George Tuchet

    Marian-Elizabethan transition

17. 

    d. 1563 · 10th Baron Audley

    Henry Tuchet

    Brief tenure

18. 

    1551 – 1617 · 11th Baron Audley; 1st Earl of Castlehaven

    George Tuchet

    Created Earl of Castlehaven, 1616

19. 

    1593 – 1631 · 12th Baron; 2nd Earl of Castlehaven

    Mervyn Tuchet

    Attainted of felony and executed, 1631

20. 

    c. 1617 – 1684 · 13th Baron; 3rd Earl of Castlehaven

    James Tuchet

    Restored by Act of Parliament, 1678

21. 

    d. 1686 · 14th Baron; 4th Earl of Castlehaven

    Mervyn Tuchet

    Brief Restoration earl

22. 

    d. 1700 · 15th Baron; 5th Earl of Castlehaven

    James Tuchet

    Turn of the century

23. 

    d. 1740 · 16th Baron; 6th Earl of Castlehaven

    James Tuchet

    Georgian Irish earl

24. 

    1723 – 1769 · 17th Baron; 7th Earl of Castlehaven

    James Tuchet

    Penultimate Castlehaven earl

25. 

    1724 – 1777 · 18th Baron; 8th and last Earl of Castlehaven

    John Tuchet

    Irish earldom extinct 1777

26. 

    1758 – 1818 · 19th Baron Audley

    George Thicknesse-Touchet

    Thicknesse blood; Touchet name resumed

27. 

    1783 – 1837 · 20th Baron Audley

    George John Thicknesse-Touchet

    Late-Georgian / William IV peer

28. 

    1817 – 1872 · 21st Baron Audley

    George Edward Thicknesse-Touchet

    Abeyant 1872 among daughters

29. 

    1858 – 1942 · 22nd Baroness Audley, suo jure

    Mary Thicknesse-Touchet

    Abeyance terminated 1937

30. 

    1913 – 1963 · 23rd Baron Audley

    Thomas Percy Henry Touchet-Jesson

    Mid-century peer

31. 

    1911 – 1973 · 24th Baroness Audley

    Rosina Lois Veronica MacNamee

    Second suo jure woman of the century

32. 

    1914 – 27 June 1997 · 25th Baron Audley of Heleigh

    Richard Michael Thomas Souter

    Last holder; abeyance 1997

    Abeyant. The chronicle does not end. It waits.

The Stanley cadet — foresters, kings of Mann, Derby at Bosworth — lives on the Holders gallery, marked as collateral.