TOUCHET

Mother: Anne ECHINGHAM (B. Audley of Heleigh)

Married 1: Dau. PLANTAGENET

Married 2: ¿?

Anne TOUCHET

Born: ABT 1455, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England

Died: 13 Nov 1559

Married: John WINGFIELD of Letheringham (Sir)

Mother: Anne ECHINGHAM (B. Audley of Heleigh)

Children:

1. Anthony WINGFIELD of Letheringham (Sir Knight)

2. Edward WINGFIELD

3. Edmund WINGFIELD

4. Margaret WINGFIELD

5. Elizabeth WINGFIELD

6. Anne WINGFIELD

7. Hugh WINGFIELD

Eleanor TOUCHET

James TOUCHET (4º B. Audley of Heleigh)

Mother: Anne ECHINGHAM (B. Audley of Heleigh)

Married: Roger LEWKNOR of Dedisham and Bodiam (Sir Knight) (b. 1465 - d. 15 Jan 1543)

Children:

1. Jane LEWKNOR (See her Biography)

Born: 1468/9, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England

Died: 28 Jun 1497, London, England

Notes: See his Biography.

John TOUCHET (5º B. Audley of Heleigh)

Mother: Anne ECHINGHAM (B. Audley of Heleigh)

Married 1: Margaret DARREL (dau. of Richard Darrell and Margaret Beaufort, C. Stafford) BEF 1483, Lillington Dayrell, Buckinghamshire, England

Children:

1. John TOUCHET (5º B. Audley of Heleigh)

Married 2: Joan BOURCHIER (B. Audley of Heleigh) ABT 1488

Born: 1483, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Died: BEF 20 Jan 1558

Father: James TOUCHET (4º B. Audley of Heleigh)

Mother: Margaret DARREL

Married: Mary GRIFFIN

Children:

1. George TOUCHET (6º B. Audley of Heleigh)

2. Richard TOUCHET (b. 1511)

3. Edward TOUCHET (b. 1513)

George TOUCHET (6º B. Audley of Heleigh)

Born: 1509, Braybrooke, N, England

Died: 1560

Father: John TOUCHET (5º B. Audley of Heleigh)

Mother: Mary GRIFFIN

Married 1: Elizabeth TUKE (dau. of Sir Brian Tuke and Grizell Boughton)

Children:

1. Henry TOUCHET (7º B. Audley of Heleigh)

Married 2: Joan PLATT (B. Audley of Heleigh)

Henry TOUCHET (7º B. Audley of Heleigh)

Died: 30 Dec 1563

Father: George TOUCHET (6º B. Audley of Heleigh)

Mother: Elizabeth TUKE

Married: Elizabeth SNEYDE

Children:

1. George TOUCHET (1º E. Castleheaven)

2. James (Francis) TOUCHET (b. 1553, Audley, Staffodshire, England)

3. Anne TOUCHET (b. 1565, Norton, Cheshire, England)

4. Elizabeth TOUCHET (b. 1557, Audley, Staffodshire, England)

5. Anne TOUCHET (b. 1549)

6. Catherine TOUCHET (b. 1553)

George TOUCHET (1º E. Castleheaven)

Born: ABT 1550

Died: 20 Feb 1616/7

Notes: 8º B. Audley of Heleigh. Governor of Utrecht. Wounded at the siege of Kinsale on 24 Dec 1601, was an undertaker in the plantation of Ulster, was summoned by writ to the Irish House of Lords on 11 Mar 1613/14, was created a peer of Ireland as Baron Audley of Orier, co. Armagh, and Earl of Castlehaven, co. Cork, on 6 Sep 1616.

Father: Henry TOUCHET (7º B. Audley of Heleigh)

Mother: Elizabeth SNEYDE

Married 1: Lucia MERVYN (d. ABT 1611) (dau. of James Mervyn, MP, and Amy Clarck)

Children:

1. Christian TOUCHET

2. Mervyn TOUCHET (2º E. Castlehaven)

3. Anne TOUCHET

4.Mary TOUCHET

5. Eleanor TOUCHET (b. 1579)

6. Maria TOUCHET (b. 1585)

7. Eleanor TOUCHET (b. 1589)

Married 2: Elizabeth NOEL (C. Castlehaven)

Anne TOUCHET

Mother: Lucia MERVYN

Married: Edward BLOUNT of Arleston

Mary TOUCHET

Born: ABT 1578

Died: 1611

Notes: in May 1594, after a brief stint at the court of Queen Elizabeth, Mary married Thomas Thynne in a clandestine wedding. They were sixteen. They kept the marriage secret, since their families were bitter enemies and the story, when it came out, is said to have inspired Shakespeare to write 'Romeo and Juliet'. The Thynnes attempted to have the marriage annulled but were unsuccessful. In Nov 1605, Thomas inherited Longleat, Wiltshire and Mary lived there, managing the estate, until his death. Mary died in childbirth.

Mother: Lucia MERVYN

Married: Thomas THYNNE (b. 1578 - d. 1639) May 1594, Beaconsfield

Children:

1. John THYNNE (b. 1604 - d. young)

2. James THYNNE (Sir) (d. 12 Oct 1670) (m. Isabella Rich)

3. Thomas THYNNE (b. 1611)

Mary Touchet when pregnant

by Mytens, 1611

Christian TOUCHET

Born: 1587

Mervyn TOUCHET (2º E. Castlehaven)

Mother: Lucia MERVYN

Married: Henry MERVYN

Children:

1. Deborah MERVYN

2. Audley MERVYN

Born: ABT 1592

Died: 14 May 1631, Tower Hill, London, England

Notes: See his Biography.

Mother: Lucia MERVYN

Married 1: Elizabeth BARNHAM (dau. and heiress of Benedict Barnham, Alderman of London and Dorothea Smythe)

Children:

1. James TOUCHET (3º E. Castlehaven)

2. George TOUCHET (Monk)

3. Mervyn TOUCHET (11º B. Audley of Heleigh)

4. Lucy TOUCHET

5. Frances TOUCHET

6. Dorothy TOUCHET

Married 2: Anne STANLEY (B. Chandos of Sudeley / C. Castleheaven)

Lucy TOUCHET

Mother: Elizabeth BARNHAM

Married: John ANKETELL of Farriby

Children:

1. Frances ANKETELL (m. Thomas O'Grady, ancestor of Viscount Standish O'Grady)

Married 2: Gerald FITZMAURICE (son of Lord Kerry)

Frances TOUCHET

Mother: Elizabeth BARNHAM

Married: Richard BUTLER of Kilcash

Dorothy TOUCHET

Mother: Elizabeth BARNHAM

Married: Edmund BUTLER (son and heir of Lord Mountgarret)

George TOUCHET (Monk)

Died: ABT 1689

Notes: Benedictine monk, born at Stalbridge, Dorset, was second son of Mervyn Touchet, twelfth lord Audley and second Earl of Castlehaven, and younger brother of James Audley, third Earl of Castlehaven. He made his solemn profession in the chapel of English Benedictine monastery of St. Gregory at Douay on 22 Nov 1643, taking in religion the name of Anselm. He was sent to the mission in the southern province of England, and was appointed chaplain to Queen Catherine of Braganza about 1671 with a salary of 100£ a year and apartments in Somerset House. He was banished in 1675, and, by act of parliament in 1678, was expressly excluded from the succession to the earldom of Castlehaven.

Father:Mervyn TOUCHET (2º E. Castlehaven)

Mother: Elizabeth BARNHAM

James TOUCHET (3º E. Castelhaven)

Born: 1617

Died: 11 Oct 1684

Notes: 10º B. Audley of Heleigh. Eldest son and heir of Mervyn, lord Audley, second Earl of Castlehaven, by his first wife, Elizabeth Barnham. His father, a man of the most profligate life, who married for his second wife Lady Anne, daughter of Ferdinando Stanley, fifth Earl of Derby, and widow of Grey Brydges, fifth baron Chandos, was executed for unatural offences, after a trial by his peers, on 14 may 1631. When a mere boy of thirteen or fourteen,James, Earl of Castlehaven, was married toElizabeth Brydges(daughter of his father's second wife,Anne, by her first husband, Grey Brydges, fifth baron Chandos of Sudeley). When scarcely twelve years of age, the girl have been forced by her stepfather into criminal intercourse with her mother's paramour, Henry Skipworth or Skipwith. She died in 1679, and was buried on 16 Mar at St. Martin's-in-the-fields. Utterly neglected as to his education, and discusted at the scene of bestiality he was compelled to witness, but preserving his natural sense of decency intact, 'he appealed for protection from the Earl, his natural father, to the father of his country, the king's majesty', and was instrumental in bringing his father to justice. His conduct, though a severe strain on his filial duty, was regarded with aproval, and on 3 Jun 1633 he was created Baron Audley of Heleigh, with remainder 'to his heirs for ever', and with the place and precedency of George, his grandfather; but in the meanwhile most of his father's estates in England had passed into the possession of Lord Cottington and others. In so far as the creation was virtually a restoration to an ancient dignity it lay outside the power of the crown alone to make it, but necessary confirmation was obtained by act of parliament in 1678. As for the Irish peerage, it was held to be protected by the statute 'de donis', preserving all entailed honours against forfeiture for felony.

Mervyn TOUCHET (11º B. Audley of Heleigh)

Mother: Elizabeth BARNHAM

Married 1: Elizabeth BRYDGES (C. Castleheaven)

Married 2: Elizabeth GRAVES (C. Castlehaven)

Died: 1686