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AUDLEY, or AUDELEY, 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 Audley of Stratton Audley in
See also: Oxford-See also: shire
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When the order of the Garter was founded, he was instituted as one of the first founders, and his stall in St See also: George's See also: chapel, Windsor, was the See also: eleventh on the See also: side of See also: Edward, the Black See also: Prince
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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
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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 army, and after fighting for a long See also: time was severely wounded and carried from the fight
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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 knight on his side, and granted him an See also: annuity of five See also: hundred marks
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Sir James made over this gift to the four esquires who had attended him during the battle, and received from the prince a further pension of six hundred marks
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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 governor of See also: Aquitaine and great seneschal of See also: Poitou, and took part in the capture of the See also: town of La Rochesur-See also: Yon by Edmund, See also: earl of Cambridge
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He died in 1386 at Fontenay-le-Comte, where he had gone to reside, and was buried at Poitiers
.
See See also: Jean See also: Froissart, Chroniques, translated by T
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Johnes (Hafod, 181o); G
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F . Heitz, Memorials of the Most See also: Noble Order of the Garter (See also: London, 1841)
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