James Touchet, Lord Audley

Family: House of Lancaster · Role: lord · First appears: Henry VI 55

Life events

1459 · Margaret appointed Audley to raise an army and battle Salisbury's force.(Henry VI 54)
- With: Margaret of Anjou Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury
- “Wherefore she appointed Iames Twichet lord Audelie (bicause his power laie in those parties by the which the earle of Salisburie must passe) to raise an hoast of men with all spéed, and to giue battell to the same earle, if he saw cause and place conuenient.”
c. 1459 · Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury defeated and killed James Touchet, Lord Audley at Bloreheath.(Henry VI 55 · 📍 Bloreheath)
- With: Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury
- “but in conclusion, the earles armie, as men not looking for other succours nor meane to escape, but by their owne manhood, so egerlie assaulted their foes, that they slue the lord Audelie and all his capteins, and discomfited all the remnant of his people.”

enemies with Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury “The earle of Salisburie, which knew the sleights of warlike policie, suddenlie returned, and set vpon the lord Audelie and his chéefe capteins, yer the residue of his armie could passe the water.”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.