Ancestral Trails 2016 » ISOLDE MORTIMER (± 1270-1328)

Personal data ISOLDE MORTIMER 

• Alternative name: Iseude (also known as / alias)
• She was born about 1270 in Wigmore, Herefordshire.
• She died in the year 1328 in Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire.
• A child of EDMUND MORTIMER and

Household of ISOLDE MORTIMER

(1) She had a relationship with Walter de BALLON.

(2) She is married to HUGH AUDLEY.

They got married in the year 1289 at Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire.

Child(ren):

1. James AUDLEY  1290-1324 
2. Hugh AUDLEY  1294-1347 
3. ALICE AUDLEY  1302-???? 

Notes about ISOLDE MORTIMER

It is not confirmed that Isolde was a Mortimer, probably related, but research ongoing

“ISEULT DE MORTIMER, born say 1255-60. She married (1st) WALTER DE BALUN, Knt., of Great Marcle, Herefordshire, Eastington, Gloucestershire, and Arley, Staffordshire, and Great Cheverel, Wiltshire. He was born about 1225 (aged 50 in 1275). They had no issue. He was heir in 1275 to his older brother, John de Balun.

He was summoned to serve against the Welsh in 1277 and 1282. In 1285 he leased the manor of Great Marcle to her brother, Edmund de Mortimer, Knt., for three years for ££60 a year. In 1287 they likewise had the grant of the manor of Arley, Staffordshire for the term of their lives from Edmund. SIR WALTER DE BALUN was living in 1287.

She married (2nd) before 1292 (date of suit) HUGH DE AUDLEY (or ALDITHLEY)), Knt., of Stratton (in Stratton Audley), Oxfordshire, Raunds, Northamptonshire, and Bradwell and Chesterton (both in Wolstanton), Gratton, and Mere, Staffordshire, Justice of North Wales, steward of the king’s household, Constable of Montgomerry castle, younger son of James de Audley, of Aldithley and Heleigh, Staffordshire, by Ela, daughter of William Longespée, Knt. (grandson of King Henry II)...

They had two sons, James and Hugh, Knt. [Earl of Gloucester], and one daughter, Alice.

He took part in the Scottish and French wars of King Edward I. He was taken prisoner in Gascony in 1299. In 1301 they had a grant of one-third of the manor of Great Marcle, Herefordshire. He had a grant of free warren at Eastington in 1318. He was summoned to Parliament in 1321. He joined Thomas of Lancaster’s rebellion in 1322, but surrendered before the Battle of Boroughbridge.

SIR HUGH DE AUDLEY, Lord Audley, died while a prisoner in Wallingford castle shortly before 1 April 1325. In 1337 his widow, Iseult, endowed a chantry in the church of Eastington, Gloucestershire. She died testate shortly before 4 August 1338.”
SOURCE: http://www.connectedbloodlines.com/getperson.php?personID=I12323&tree=Lowell

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