James de Audley Justiciar of Ireland

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots . . . , 8th edition, 122:30, husband of Ela Longespee, b. abt. 1220, d. abt 11 Jun 1272, of Heleigh, Stafford, Keeper of the Castle of Newcastle-under-Lynn, 30 Oct 1250, Lord Marcher, Sheriff of Salop 1261-1262, and Staffordshire 1270-1271, Justiciar of Ireland, & father of Sir Nicholas de Audley, 207:31, father of Hugh de Audley
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²¹
James of Audithley was born about 1220 and died in Ireland about 11 Jun 56 Henry III (1272), of a broken neck. He married in 1244, his only wife, Ela Longespée, daughter and heir of Sir William de Longspée (a grandson of Kin Henry II) and Idoine de Camville.

• Background Information. ⁸⁴²
Living during Henry III, was a powerful feudal Baron, Justiciary of Ireland. The name of his first wife by whom he had four sons, is not known. He married for a second time to Ela, daughter of William Longepeé, by whom he had one son, Hugh. James died about 11 June 1271/72. His widow Ela died about 1325 since her inquisition post mortem took place in 1325/26.

James married Ela de Longespée, daughter of Sir William Longespée Knight and Idonia de Camville Countess of Salisbury, in 1244 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. ^{141,160,721,846} (Ela de Longespée was born in 1228 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England and died before 22 Nov 1299 in Audley, Staffordshire, England ¹⁶⁰.)