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self they never seem to have enjoyed. This, on the widowed Mar- 
garet’s death, was divided between James de Audley and John le 
Strange. Who were they? 
It will be remembered that John Gifford, senior, (the father 
of Je rych), had by his first wife (Matilda Longespée) three 
daughters, Catherine, Matilda, and Alianora, who married re- 
spectively, Nicholas de Audley! of Helegh, County of Stafford, 
William Genevill, and Fulco le Strange of Blackmere. Their 
father appears to have made some disposition of his property, by 
which Broughton, Ashton, the advowson of Codford St. Peter, 
and Beggeworth? in Gloucestershire, should pass to them and their 
heirs. This may have been the result of his law suit with their 
mother’s family, the Cliffords. Matilda Genevill died without 
issue, so that the families of Audley and le Strange succeeded. 
I. The Avptry moiety. This descended through Nicholas, 
8th Lord Audley, to his son James, who has been immortalised 
by Froissart for his gallantry at Poictiers. He charged “in 
the front of the battle,” by the special permission of the Black 
Prince; was severely wounded, and only saved by the attentions of 
his four squires, who “brought him out of the field, laid him under 
a hedge to refresh him, unarmed him and bound up his wounds.” 
Edward inquired for him; said the Prince should go to the knight, 
if the knight could not come to the Prince; embraced him on his 
appearance in his litter, acknowledged his distinguished bearing 
‘in the bloody business of this day, wherefore I retain you for my 
knight, with 500 marks of yearly revenue.” This pension Lord 
Audley transferred to his faithful squires, saying that they de- 
served it as much as himself, and needed it more. The Prince, 
determined not to be outdone in generosity, thanked Lord Audley 
! This was not the first connection between the families of Gifford and Audley, 
_ which were both allied to that of Longespée. James Audley, father of Nicholas, 
had married for his second wife Ela, the sister of William Longespée, who was 
the first husband of Matilda Clifford, who was the mother, by her second mar- 
riage, of Catherine Gifford. Again, Matilda’s only daughter by her first husband 
was Margaret Longespée, who married Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, Henry’s 
second wife was Joan Martin of the Kemeys family, who on her widowhood 
married Nicholas Audley, the son of Nicholas Audley and Catherine Gifford, 
* Beggeworth or Badgeworth is about 7 miles N, W, of Elston. 
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