John de Arderne

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• Alternate birth: of Aldford, Cheshire, England

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He and Ellen de Wastneys were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Peter de Arderne (d. bef. 12 Sep 1272) and his wife Margery. Ellen de Wasteneys was his third wife, but before they married in 1346 she was his longtime mistress; their son Thomas de Arderne was born in 1328, while he was married to his second wife.

John married Ellen de Wasteneys before 1346. Ellen (daughter of William de Wasteneys and Cecily de Arderne) died between 13 Jul 1349 and 23 Dec 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Katherine Arderne
2. Maud de Arderne
3. Thomas de Arderne was born in 1328 in of Elford, Staffordshire, England; died before 1 Jul 1391.

John married Margaret ferch Gruffydd ap Madog before 1299. Margaret (daughter of Gruffudd ap Madoc and Emma de Audley) died after 1314. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Margery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 7 Dec 1269, Dinas Bran, Denbighshire, Wales

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Also spelled Gryffydd ap Madog. Called "Maelor." Lord of Bromfield.

Also spelled Gryffydd ap Madog. Called "Maelor." Lord of Bromfield and Dinas Bran; Prince of Powys Fadog (northern Powys). "In 1257, he switched his attachment to the English crown following the defeat of Henry III of England in a campaign against Llewelyn ap Gruffydd and promised his allegiance to Llewelyn. Thereupon he was obliged to confine himself to his castle of Dinas Bran." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Gruffudd married Emma de Audley. Emma (daughter of Henry of Aldithley and Bertrade de Mainwaring) was born about 1218 in of Heleigh in Audley, Staffordshire, England; died after 22 Dec 1270. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1285

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Justiciar of Chester, 1236-1241, 1252-57.

Walkelyn married Agnes de Orreby before 1243. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Prince of Powys Fadog (Northern Wales), 1191-1236. "He was buried at his own foundation of Valle Crucis, the last Cistercian monastery to be founded in Wales." [Dictionary of Welsh Biography, citation details below.]

Madog married Gwladus ferch Ithel ap Rhys ab Ifor ap Hywel ap Morgan Fychan ap Morgan Hir. Gwladus (daughter of Ithel ap Rhys) was born in of Gwent, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 19 Nov 1246

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Also called Henry de Audley; Aldithlegh.

Sheriff of Shrophsire and Staffordshire 1227-8, 1229-32.

"Henry of Aldithley, 2nd son of Adam of Aldithley, (who d. bet. 1203 and 1211) by Emma, daughter of Ralf fitz Orm, of Darlaston, Staffs; was b. about 1175; with his father, he was witness to a charter of Harvey Bagot in 1194. He bought large estates from Eleanor Malbank in 1214; in 1227 he acquired the manors of Edgmund and Newport, and in 1230 that of Ford, all in Salop, and all held by him direct from the Crown, though not by military or knight service. He was Under Sheriff of Salop and co. Stafford 1217-20, and Sheriff 1227-32; was in command of the Welsh Marches 1223-46. He built the castle of Heligh, co. Stafford; and Red Castle, Salop. In 1223 he founded Hulton Abbey. He was appointed Custodian of Chester and Beeston Castle, 22 June 1237, on the extinction of the the earldom of Chester. He m. in 1217, Bertred, daughter of Ralf Mainwaring, Seneschal of Chester. He d. in 1246, shortly bef. Nov. His widow was living in 1249. She was bur. in Hulton Abbey." [Complete Peerage I:337, as corrected in Volume XIV.]

From A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire:

"That this family of Alditheley, vulgarly called Audley," says Dugdale, "came to be great and eminent, the ensuing discourse will sufficiently manifest: but that the rise thereof was no higher than King John's time, and that the first who assumed this surname was a branch of that ancient and noble family of Verdon, whose chief seat was at Alton Castle in the northern part of Staffordshire, I am very inclined to believe; partly by reason that Henry had the inheritance of Alditheley given him by Nicholas de Verdon, who d. in the 16th Henry III [1232], or near that time; and partly for that he bore for his arms the same ordinary as Vernon did...so that probably the ancestor of this Henry first seated himself at Alditheley: for that there hath been an ancient mansion there, the large moat, northwards from the parish church there (somewhat less than a furlong, and upon the chief part of a fair ascent), do sufficiently manifest."

Henry de Alditheley, to whom Dugdale alludes above, being in great favour with Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln (the most powerful subject of England in his time), obtained from that nobleman a grant of Newhall in Cheshire with manors in Staffordshire and other parts--and for his adhesion to King John, in that monarch's struggle with the insurrectionary barons, a royal grant of the lordship o fStorton in Warwickshire, part of the possessions of Roger de Summerville. In the first four years of King Henry III [1216-1220], he executed the office of sheriff for the counties of Salop and Stafford as deputy for his patron, the great Earl Ranulph. In the 10th of Henry III [1226], this Henry de Alditheley was appointed governor of the castles of Carmarthen and Cardigan and made sheriff the next year of the counties of Salop and Stafford and constable of the castles of Salop and Bridgenorth, which sheriffalty he held for five years. Upon his retirement from office, he had a confirmation of all such lands whereof he was then possessed as well those granted to him by Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and Nicholas de Verdon, as those in Ireland given him by Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, whose constable he was in that province. He subsequently obtained divers other territorial grants from the crown, but, notwithstanding, when Richard Mareschall, Earl of Pembroke, rebelled and made an incursion into Wales, the king, Henry III, thought it prudent to secure the persons of this Henry and all the other barons-marchers. He was afterwards, however, constituted governor of Shrewsbury in place of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and, on the death of John, Earl of Chester, governor of the castle of Chester, and also that of Beeston, then called the "Castle on the Rock," and soon after made governor of Newcastle-under-Lyne. This powerful feudal baron m. Bertred, dau. of Ralph de Meisnil-warin, of Cheshire, and had a son, James, and a dau., Emme, who m. Griffith ap Madoc, Lord of Bromefield, a person of great power in Wales. He d. in 1236, having founded and endowed the Abbey of Hilton near to his castle at Heleigh, in Staffordshire, for Cistercian monks, and was s. by his son, James de Alditheley.

Henry married Bertrade de Mainwaring in 1217. Bertrade (daughter of Ralph Mainwaring and Amicia de Meschines) died after 1248; was buried in Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1249
• Alternate death: Aft 3 Nov 1249