Margaret II Audley (died 1373Date of death per information label by her effigy, Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon) was a co-heiress to the feudal barony of Barnstaple in Devon, England.
Origins Margaret was a daughter of James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley (1312/13–1386), seated at the manor of Tawstock, feudal baron of Barnstaple, by his second wife Isabel LeStrange, daughter of Roger le Strange, 5th Baron Strange (c. 1327–1382) of Knokyn.Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, new edition, vol. I, pp.339-40 In 1370 James Audley settled the manor of Tawstock in tail male successively to his three sons from his second marriage, thus Margaret's brothers, Thomas, Rodeland and James, who all died childless.Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, new edition, vol.V, p.501, Baron FitzWarin, note a, inquisition post mortem of Nicholas Audeley (d.1391) On the death of James Audley in 1386 the barony of Barnstaple, including two thirds of the manor of Tawstock, passed to his surviving son (from his first marriage) Nicholas Audley, 3rd Baron Audley (c.1328–1391), who died childless. Nicholas's co-heiresses were his two full-sisters Joan and Margaret I and his half-sister Margaret II, who inherited Tawstock: Joan Audley (1331–1393) who married Sir John Tuchet (1327–1371),Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham. Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families, Genealogical Publishing Com, 2005. pg 831. Google eBook Margaret I Audley (pre-1351–1410/11), who married Sir Roger Hillary,Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, new edition, vol. 5, p. 501 Margaret II Audley, his half-sister, who, according to William Pole, inherited Tawstock by a special entail,Pole, p.390 wife of Fulk VIII FitzWarin, 4th Baron FitzWarin (1341–1374)
Inheritance The lands which descended via Lady Margaret Audley to the FitzWarins and Bourchiers included: Tawstock Nymet Tracy,Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.291 St Marychurch,Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.271 Kingston,Risdon, pp.182,, 386 Marwood,Risdon, p.334 UpexeRisdon, p.80 Creedy Wiger, near CreditonPole, p.221
Marriage and children
Margaret II Audley married Fulk VIII FitzWarin, 4th Baron FitzWarin (1341–1374). The FitzWarin family were powerful Marcher Lords seated at Whittington Castle in Shropshire and at Alveston in Gloucestershire. The title Baron FitzWarin was created by writ of summons for Fulk V FitzWarin in 1295. (For the descendants of Margaret Audley see Manor of Tawstock.) her son is Fulk FitzWarin, 5th Baron FitzWarin (1365–1391) who married Elizabeth Cogan granddaughter of Neil Loring. elizabeth married secondly Hugh Courtenay (died 1425)
Death and burial Margaret died in 1373 and it is believed that she is represented by the oak effigy of a recumbent lady formerly in a niche in the north wall of St Peter's Church, Tawstock, from where it was removed to the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon in Barnstaple.
Sources Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, pp. 151–156, Wrey of Tawstock, p. 152 Sanders, I.J., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p. 104, Barony of Barnstaple Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 552, pedigree of Martyn, Barons of Barnstaple
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