Earl Hugh Audley GLOUCESTER

   Another name for Hugh was GLOUCESTER Earl.

   General Notes:

Earl of GLOUCESTER.

BOOKS
Barber Grandparents: 125 Kings, 143 Generations, Ted Butler Bernard and Gertrude Barber Bernard, 1978, McKinney TX, p97: "467P Margaret De Clare, (D of 461, M of 473); married Hugh Audley, Earl of Gloucester."

Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Margaret De Clare, Mar =1 Piers Gaveston Earl of Cornwall, =2 Hugh De Audley Earl of Gloucester, Died 1347."

The Political History of England 1216-1377, Vol III, T F Tout, AMS Press, 1905, p279: "...[1321] Both the Despensers desired to be earls, and the younger Hugh wished that the Gloucester earldom should be revived in his favour. Assured of the good-will of the king, both had to contend against the jealousy of the baronage and the exclusiveness of the existing earls. The younger Hugh had also to reckon with his two brothers-in-law, with whom he had divided the Clare estates. These were Hugh of Audley, who had married Margaret the widow of Gaveston, and Roger of Amory, the husband of Elizabeth, the youngest of the Claresisters. There had been difficulty enough in effecting the partition of The Gloucester inheritance among the three coheiresses. In 1317 the division was made, and Despenser had become lord of Glamorgan, which politically and strategically was most important of all the Gloucester lands. Yet even then, Despenser was not satisfied with his position..."
p314: "...[1333] An Audley, son of Despenser's rival, was raised to the earldom of Gloucester..."

The Later Middle Ages 1272-1485, George Holmes, 1962, The Norton History of England, p113: "...[Lancaster] was supplanted in 1318 by a group of men who had acquired the King's confidence since 1314, the Earls of Pembroke and Hereford and the knights, Bartholomew de Badlesmere, Roger d'Armory, Hugh d'Audley, and Hugh Despenser the younger. These men have been called the `Middle Party', and the phrase is just in so far as it emphasizes that they aimed neither at the rule of a single, all-powerful courtier, like Gaveston,nor at destroying the King's independence from outside, like Lancaster..."

   Marriage Information:

Hugh married Margaret De CLARE, daughter of Earl Gilbert De Clare GLOUCESTER and Duchess Joan Acre GLOUCESTER. (Margaret De CLARE was born about 1290 in Castle, Tunbridge, Kent, England, christened about 1292 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England and died on 9 Apr 1342 in , , France.)