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Lord of the Welsh Marches,governor of Carmarthen castle and Cardigan Castle, Sheriff of Salop and Staffordshire from 1216 until 1221, constable of Shrewsbury Castle and Bridgnorth Castle,Governor of Shrewsbury, Chester Castle and Beeston Castle, governor of Newcastle-under-Lyne. "That this family of Alditheley, vulgarly called Audley,"says Dugdale,"came to be great and eminent, the ensuing discourse will sufficientlymanifest: but thatthe rise thereof was no higher than King John`s time,andthat the first who assumed this surname was a branch ofthat ancientand noble family of Verdon, whose chief seat was at Alton Castle in thenorthern part of Staffordshire, I am very inclined to believe; partlybyreason that Henry had the inheritance of Alditheley given him byNicholas de Verdon, who d. inthe 16th Henry III [1232], or near thattime; and partly for that he bore for hisarms the same ordinary asVernon did. . .so that probably the ancestor of this Henry firstseatedhimself at Alditheley: for that there hath been an ancient mansion there,the large moat, northwards from the parish church there (somewhat lessthan a furlong, and upon the chief part of a fair ascent), dosufficiently manifest." Henry deAlditheley, to whom Dugdale alludesabove, being in great favourwith Ranulph,Earl of Chester and Lincoln (the most powerful subject ofEngland in his time), obtained from that nobleman a grantof Newhall inCheshire with manors in Staffordshire and other parts--and for hisadhesion to King John, in that monarch`s struggle with theinsurrectionary barons, a royal grant of the lordship of Storton inWarwickshire, part of the possessions of Roger de Summerville. In thefirst four years of King Henry III [1216-1220], he executed the office ofsherifffor the counties of Salop and Stafford as deputy for his patron,the great EarlRanulph. In the 10th of Henry III[1226], this Henry deAlditheley was appointedgovernor of the castles of Carmarthen andCardigan and made sheriff the next year of the counties of SalopandStafford and constable of the castles of Salop andBridgenorth, whichsheriffalty he held for five years. Upon his retirement fromoffice, hehad a confirmation of all such lands whereof he was then possessed aswell thosegranted to him by Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and Nicholas deVerdon,as those in Ireland given him by Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster,whose constable he was in that province.He subsequently obtained diversother territorial grantsfrom the crown, but, notwithstanding, whenRichard Mareschall, Earl of Pembroke,rebelled and madean incursion intoWales, the king, Henry III, thought it prudent to secure the persons ofthis Henry and all the other barons-marchers. He was afterwards, however,constituted governor of Shrewsbury inplace of John de Lacy, Earl ofLincoln, and, on the death of John, Earl of Chester, governor of thecastle of Chester, and also that of Beeston, then called the "Castle onthe Rock," and soon after made governor of Newcastle-under-Lyne.Thispowerful feudal baron m. Bertred,dau. of Ralph de Meisnil-warin, ofCheshire, and had a son, James,and a dau.,Emme, who m. Griffith apMadoc, Lord ofBromefield, a person of greatpower in Wales. He d. in1236,having founded and endowed the Abbey of Hilton near to his castleat Heleigh, inStaffordshire, for Cistercian monks, and was s.by hisson, James de Alditheley.[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeitedand Extinct Peerages, Burke`s Peerage, Ltd.,London, England, 1883, p. 15,Audley, Barons Audley, of Heleigh]
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