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AUDLEY, or AUDELEY, SIR JAMES (c. 131...

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AUDLEY, or AUDELEY, See also:SIR See also:JAMES (c. 1316-1386)  , one of the See also:original knights, or founders, of the See also:order of the Garter, was the eldest son of See also:Sir See also:James See also:Audley of Stratton Audley in See also:Oxford-See also:shire . When the order of the Garter was founded, he was instituted as one of the first founders, and his See also:stall in St See also:George's See also:chapel, See also:Windsor, was the See also:eleventh on the See also:side of See also:Edward, the See also:Black See also:Prince . He appears to have served in See also:France in 1346, and in See also:August 1350 took See also:part in the See also:naval fight off See also:Sluys . When hostilities were renewed between See also:England and France in 1354 Sir James was in See also:constant attendance upon the Black Prince, and earned a See also:great reputation for valour . At the See also:battle of See also:Poitiers on the 19th of See also:September 1356 he took his stand in front of the See also:English See also:army, and after fighting for a See also:long See also:time was severely wounded and carried from the fight . After the victory, the prince inquired for Sir James, who was brought to the royal See also:tent, where Edward told him he had been the bravest See also:knight on his side, and granted him an See also:annuity of five See also:hundred marks . Sir James made over this See also:gift to the four esquires who had attended him during the battle, and received from the prince a further See also:pension of six hundred marks . In 1359 he was one of the leaders of an expedition into France, in 136o he took the fortress of Chaven in See also:Brittany, and was See also:present at See also:Calais when See also:peace was made between England and France in See also:October 136o . He was afterwards See also:governor of See also:Aquitaine and great See also:seneschal of See also:Poitou, and took part in the See also:capture of the See also:town of La Rochesur-See also:Yon by See also:Edmund, See also:earl of See also:Cambridge . He died in 1386 at Fontenay-le-See also:Comte, where he had gone to reside, and was buried at Poitiers . See See also:Jean See also:Froissart, Chroniques, translated by T . Johnes (Hafod, 181o); G .

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Noble Order of the Garter (See also:London, 1841) .

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