Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester
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Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1289- 10 November 1347) was the English Ambassador to France in 1341.
[edit] Lineage
He was born in Stratton Audley in the English County of Oxfordshire, the son of Hugh I de Audley (born c. 1250 in Audley, Staffordshire) and Isolde de Mortimer (born c. 1270 in Wigmore, Herefordshire) and a member of the Mortimer family of Marcher Lords, many of whom were Earl of March.
[edit] Marriage & Issue
He married Margaret de Clare, the widow of Piers Gaveston, by whom he had a daughter, Margaret de Audley (born c. 1318 in Stafford), who was abducted as a wife by Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford.
