Adam de Audley

  General Notes:

~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 1, (AUDLEY) 1887 Edition, p. 197. says he was the son of Liulf, who was the son ofAdam. Adam was granted the manor of Stanley to his cousin, William Fitz Adam in exchanged for the manor of Talk. He and his son Henry de Aldithley were witness to a charter of Harvey Bagot in 1194. ⁸⁴⁶

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²³
Aldidelege (Audley) Baltredelez (half Balterby) and Talc (talke in Audley), all held in 1086 by the Thane, Gamel, seem to have come, early in the reign of Henry I, into the hands of first Adam de Audley, who divided it between his sons, Lydulph and Adam. In 1130 Liulf de Audley lay under a heavy penalty for the muder of Gamel. Adam II was apparently the father of Henry de Audley, "the great territorial acquisitionist of the district," who built the castle of Heighley, and is represented by Dugdale's Visitation, as the first to use the name.
~Battle Abbey Roll, pg. 224