Family and Education
b. 1487 /88, s. of Thomas Audley of Berechurch. educ. ?Buckingham Hall (Magdalene College), Camb.; I. Temple, adm. 7 July 1510. m. (1) Christina, da. of Sir Thomas Barnardiston of Kedington, Suff. and Great Coates, Lincs. s.p.; (2) 1538, Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, 2da. Kntd. 20 May 1532; cr. Baron Audley of Walden 29 Nov. 1538; KG nom. 23 Apr., inst. 19 May 1540.Aged 56 at death according to MI, F. Chancellor, Essex Mons. 284-6. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 139-40; Morant, Essex, i. 138; ii. 548-9; DNB; CP. Colchester town hall, Benham mss 20, f. 2; 21, ff. 1 et passim; xxii, passim; LP Hen. VIII, iii-v; Somerville, Duchy, i. 407, 604, 606.
Offices Held
Autumn reader, I. Temple 1526, Lent 1531.
Jt. town clerk, Colchester 1514 – 15, sole 1515 – 32; j.p. Essex 1520 – d.; commr. subsidy, Essex and Colchester 1523, Colchester 1524; attorney-gen. duchy of Lancaster Dec. 1526 – Sept. 1531; groom of chamber 1527; member, household of Thomas Wolsey by 1527 – 29; serjeant-at-law and King’s serjeant Nov. 1531; keeper of the great seal 20 May 1532; ld. chancellor Jan. 1533 – d.; constable, Hertford castle 1540 – d.; steward, duchy of Lancaster, Essex, Herts. and Mdx. July 1540–d.
Speaker of House of Commons 1529.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Berechurch; Audley End, Saffron Walden, Essex.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
AUDLEY, Thomas I (1487/88-1544)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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