Holds or carries the 1313 writ · The 1313 writ
Audley of Heleigh
1226 – 1391
Carries. Barony by writ, 8 January 1313, heirs general. The gold fret.
Breaks. Male line dies 1391. The dignity does not. It walks in a sister.
Edward II summoned Nicholas Audley of Heleigh on 8 January 1313. That writ created a barony inherited by daughters as well as sons. James, 2nd Baron, took the Garter at Poitiers. Nicholas, 3rd, died without issue in 1391. His sister Joan carried the dignity into Tuchet.
Sister houses
Men of this house
Henry de Audley
c. 1175 – 1246 · Stone. Heighley, Red Castle, Hulton Abbey.
James de Audley
c. 1220 – 1272 · Justiciar of Ireland. Justice of Chester.
Nicholas of Heighley
c. 1258 – 1299 · Held the castle on the eve of the writ.
Nicholas, 1st Baron
1313 – 1316 · The man Edward II summoned.
James, 2nd Baron, KG
1312 – 1386 · Poitiers. The most decorated of the writ.
Nicholas, 3rd Baron
d. 1391 · Last male Audley of Heighley. Died without issue.
Words used here
- Writ
- A royal letter calling a man to sit in Parliament — and, in this family, the legal act that created the barony.
- Barony by writ
- A barony created by a summons to Parliament, inherited by daughters as well as sons.
- Heirs general
- The next blood — daughters included — not ‘the next man of the name.’
- Gold fret
- The Audley coat: a red field, a gold lattice. The mark of the 1313 house.