DE AUDLEY, Knight, 1st Lord Audley Nicholas

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 22 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Knight, 1st Lord Audley, Baron Audley

Family/Spouse: MARTIN, Joan. Joan (daughter of Living and Living) was born in 1291; died in 1322. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 20 GGM

Family/Spouse: SHIRLEY, Thomas. Thomas (son of SHIRLEY, Ralph and Living) died in 1362. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The encounter in which Sir Hugh was killed was immortalised by Shakespeare in his play "Henry IV".
• Public Service: Knight and Grand Falconer to King Henry IV
• Relation to Me: 19 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Knight of Lower Ettingham, Warwickshire
• Title: Knight of Ettington

Notes:

A tradition, well established by Shakespeare’s day, has it that they were two of the three knights (the other being Shirley’s colleague, Blount) who, clad in royal armour in order to impersonate the King, successively encountered and fell in single combat under the victorious arm of the earl of Douglas, their deaths being avenged by a fourth champion, Prince Henry.7

Sir Hugh Shirley
Birth: 1355
Ettington, Warwickshire, England
Death: Jul. 22, 1403
Shrewsbury
Shropshire, England

Birth: ABT 1355 in Eatington, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Death: 22 JUL 1403 in Battle of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England 1
Note:
Sir Hugh Shirley, inherited Basset estates; Grand Falconer to Henry IV 1400; killed 1403 at Battle of Shrewsbury, being one of four who were dressed as the King and mistaken for him by the enemy. [Burke's Peerage]

The encounter is immortalised by Shakespeare in his play "Henry IV".

However, in the play Shakespeare uses dramatic licence and he has Sir Hugh killed instead by Douglas.
Quote: King Henry:
"Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like
never to hold it up again ! The spirits
of valiant Shirley, Stafford and Blunt are in my arms."

1400-1403 Master of King's Hawks.

children:
Joan Shirley m. Robert Newmarch
Elizabeth Shirley died unmarried mentioned in 1415 deposition of brother Ralph
Isabella Shirley m. Sir John Cokayne of Ashbourne mentioned in 1415 deposition of brother Ralph
Nicholaia Shirley (Fem.) died unmarried mentioned in 1415 deposition of brother Ralph
Ralph Shirley b 1392

Sir James de Shirley #130650263 is g-grandfather to Hugh
Sir Ralph de Shirley #109168221 is grandfather

Family links:
Parents:
Thomas de Shirley (____ - 1362)
Isabel de Meynell Braybrook (____ - 1393)

Spouse:
Beatrix de Braose Shirley (1355 - 1440)*
Children:
Ralph Shirley (1391 - 1443)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Body lost or destroyed

Created by: Debbie Shirley
Record added: May 31, 2014
Find A Grave Memorial# 130650835


Died:
At the Battle of Shrewsbury

Hugh married DE BROASE, Beatrice between 1375 and 1383 in Wiston, Sussex, England. Beatrice (daughter of DE BRAOSE, Peter and PERCY, Joan) was born about 1365 in Wiston, Sussex, England; died on 20 Apr 1440 in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]