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For the rugby player, see <a href="/wiki/Tom_Audley" title="Tom Audley">Tom Audley</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Honourable" title="The Right Honourable">The Right Honourable</a></div><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">The Lord Audley of Walden</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a> <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_England" title="Privy Council of England">PC</a> <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Serjeant" class="mw-redirect" title="King's Serjeant">KS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Justice_of_the_peace" title="Justice of the peace">JP</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Audley_(c.1488%E2%80%931544),_Lord_Audley,_1569.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Thomas_Audley_%28c.1488%E2%80%931544%29%2C_Lord_Audley%2C_1569.jpg/220px-Thomas_Audley_%28c.1488%E2%80%931544%29%2C_Lord_Audley%2C_1569.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Thomas_Audley_%28c.1488%E2%80%931544%29%2C_Lord_Audley%2C_1569.jpg/330px-Thomas_Audley_%28c.1488%E2%80%931544%29%2C_Lord_Audley%2C_1569.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Thomas_Audley_%28c.1488%E2%80%931544%29%2C_Lord_Audley%2C_1569.jpg/440px-Thomas_Audley_%28c.1488%E2%80%931544%29%2C_Lord_Audley%2C_1569.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1038" data-file-height="1387" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Posthumous portrait, 1569</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />26 January 1533 – 21 April 1544</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_More" title="Thomas More">Sir Thomas More</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wriothesley,_1st_Earl_of_Southampton" title="Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton">The Earl of Southampton</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Lord_Keeper_of_the_Great_Seal" title="Lord Keeper of the Great Seal">Lord Keeper of the Great Seal</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />20 May 1532 – 21 April 1544</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_More" title="Thomas More">Sir Thomas More</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wriothesley,_1st_Earl_of_Southampton" title="Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton">The Earl of Southampton</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Speakers_of_the_House_of_Commons_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Speakers of the House of Commons of England">Speaker of the House of Commons</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />5 November 1529 – 26 January 1533</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_More" title="Thomas More">Sir Thomas More</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Wingfield" title="Humphrey Wingfield">Sir Humphrey Wingfield</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">ca. 1488<br /><a href="/wiki/Earls_Colne" title="Earls Colne">Earls Colne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">Kingdom of England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">30 April 1544<span style="display:none">(1544-04-30)</span> (aged 56)<br /><a href="/wiki/Saffron_Walden" title="Saffron Walden">Saffron Walden</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">Kingdom of England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Christina Barnardiston<br />Elizabeth Grey</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2, including <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Audley,_Duchess_of_Norfolk" title="Margaret Audley, Duchess of Norfolk">Margaret Audley, Duchess of Norfolk</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Sir_Thomas_Audley,_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden,_KG.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_arms_of_Sir_Thomas_Audley%2C_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden%2C_KG.png/220px-Coat_of_arms_of_Sir_Thomas_Audley%2C_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden%2C_KG.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_arms_of_Sir_Thomas_Audley%2C_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden%2C_KG.png/330px-Coat_of_arms_of_Sir_Thomas_Audley%2C_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden%2C_KG.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_arms_of_Sir_Thomas_Audley%2C_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden%2C_KG.png/440px-Coat_of_arms_of_Sir_Thomas_Audley%2C_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden%2C_KG.png 2x" data-file-width="1158" data-file-height="1158" /></a><figcaption>Arms of Sir Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, KG: <i>Quarterly per pale indented or and azure, in the 2nd and 3rd an eagle displayed of the 1st on a bend of the 2nd a fret between two martlets of the 1st</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ashmole1715_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ashmole1715-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fret or knot is a reference to the arms of Audley, <a href="/wiki/Baron_Audley" title="Baron Audley">Baron Audley</a>, which family died out in the male line in 1391, and to which he does not appear to have been related.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GarterStallPlate_ThomasAudley_1stBaronAudleyOfWalden.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/GarterStallPlate_ThomasAudley_1stBaronAudleyOfWalden.png/220px-GarterStallPlate_ThomasAudley_1stBaronAudleyOfWalden.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="304" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/GarterStallPlate_ThomasAudley_1stBaronAudleyOfWalden.png/330px-GarterStallPlate_ThomasAudley_1stBaronAudleyOfWalden.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/GarterStallPlate_ThomasAudley_1stBaronAudleyOfWalden.png/440px-GarterStallPlate_ThomasAudley_1stBaronAudleyOfWalden.png 2x" data-file-width="697" data-file-height="964" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Garter_stall_plate" title="Garter stall plate">Garter stall plate</a> of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, <a href="/wiki/St_George%27s_Chapel,_Windsor_Castle" title="St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle">St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle</a>. Inscribed: <i>Le no(ble) Seigneur Thomas Audeley de Walden et Grande Channcellier d'Angleterre fuist enstallé 8 joure de May in l'an du reig(n)e n (ot)re soveraygne le Roy Henry le 8 32</i> ("The noble lord Thomas Audley of Walden and Grand Chancellor of England was installed on the 8th day of May in the 32nd year of the reign of our noble sovereign King Henry the Eighth")</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden</b> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">KG</a>, <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_England" title="Privy Council of England">PC</a>, <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Serjeant" class="mw-redirect" title="King's Serjeant">KS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Justice_of_the_peace" title="Justice of the peace">JP</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1488</span> – 30 April 1544), was an English barrister and judge who served as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a> of <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> from 1533 to 1544. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Audley,_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Audley was born in <a href="/wiki/Earls_Colne" title="Earls Colne">Earls Colne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>, the son of Geoffrey Audley, and is believed to have studied at <a href="/wiki/Buckingham_College,_Cambridge" title="Buckingham College, Cambridge">Buckingham College, Cambridge</a>, now known as Magdalene College.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was educated for the law, entered the <a href="/wiki/Inner_Temple" title="Inner Temple">Inner Temple</a>, was named <a href="/wiki/Town_clerk#United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Town clerk">town clerk</a> of <a href="/wiki/Colchester" title="Colchester">Colchester</a> in 1514, and became <a href="/wiki/Justice_of_the_Peace" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice of the Peace">Justice of the Peace</a> for <a href="/wiki/Essex,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Essex, England">Essex</a> in November 1520.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_in_Parliament">Career in Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Audley,_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career in Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1523 Audley was returned to Parliament for <a href="/wiki/Essex_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Essex (UK Parliament constituency)">Essex</a>, and represented this constituency in subsequent Parliaments. In 1527 he was <a href="/wiki/Groom_of_the_Chamber" title="Groom of the Chamber">Groom of the Chamber</a>, and became a member of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wolsey" title="Thomas Wolsey">Wolsey's</a> household. On the fall of the latter in 1529, he was made <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Duchy_of_Lancaster" title="Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster">Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster</a>, and the same year <a href="/wiki/List_of_Speakers_of_the_House_of_Commons_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Speakers of the House of Commons of England">Speaker</a> of the House of Commons, presiding over the famous assembly styled the <a href="/wiki/English_Reformation_Parliament" title="English Reformation Parliament">Reformation Parliament</a>, which abolished the papal jurisdiction. The same year he headed a deputation of the Commons to the king to complain of Bishop <a href="/wiki/John_Fisher" title="John Fisher">Fisher's</a> speech against their proceedings. He interpreted the King's "moral" scruples to parliament concerning his marriage with <a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon" title="Catherine of Aragon">Catherine of Aragon</a>, and made himself the instrument of the King in the attack upon the clergy and the preparation of the <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Supremacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Act of Supremacy">Act of Supremacy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1531 he had been made a <a href="/wiki/Serjeant-at-law" title="Serjeant-at-law">serjeant-at-law</a> and king's serjeant; and on 20 May 1532 he was knighted, and succeeded <a href="/wiki/Thomas_More" title="Thomas More">Sir Thomas More</a> as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Keeper_of_the_Great_Seal" title="Lord Keeper of the Great Seal">Lord Keeper of the Great Seal</a>, being appointed Lord Chancellor on 26 January 1533. He supported the king's divorce from Catherine and the marriage with <a href="/wiki/Anne_Boleyn" title="Anne Boleyn">Anne Boleyn</a>; and presided at the trials of Fisher and More in 1535, at which his conduct and evident intention to secure a conviction has been criticised by some. Next year he was part of the trial of Anne Boleyn and her "lovers" for treason and adultery. The execution of the king's wife left him free to declare the king's daughter <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I" title="Elizabeth I">Princess Elizabeth</a> a bastard, and for Henry to marry Anne's maid, <a href="/wiki/Jane_Seymour" title="Jane Seymour">Jane Seymour</a>. Audley was a witness to the queen's execution, and recommended to Parliament the new <a href="/wiki/Second_Succession_Act" title="Second Succession Act">Act of Succession</a>, which made <a href="/wiki/Jane_Seymour" title="Jane Seymour">Jane Seymour</a>'s issue legitimate.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1537 he condemned to death as traitors the rebels of the <a href="/wiki/Pilgrimage_of_Grace" title="Pilgrimage of Grace">Pilgrimage of Grace</a>. On 29 November 1538 he was created <b>Baron Audley of Walden</b>;<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and soon afterwards presided as Lord Steward at the trials of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Pole,_1st_Baron_Montagu" title="Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu">Henry Pole, Lord Montacute</a>, and of the <a href="/wiki/Henry_Courtenay,_1st_Marquess_of_Exeter" title="Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter">Marquess of Exeter</a>. In 1539, inclining to the Protestant Reformation, he made himself the King's instrument in enforcing religious conformity, and in the passing of the <a href="/wiki/Six_Articles_(1539)" class="mw-redirect" title="Six Articles (1539)">Six Articles</a> Act.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_activities">Other activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Audley,_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 24 April 1540 he was made a <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">Knight of the Garter</a>, and subsequently managed the <a href="/wiki/Attainder" title="Attainder">attainder</a> of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell" title="Thomas Cromwell">Thomas Cromwell</a>, and the dissolution of Henry's marriage with <a href="/wiki/Anne_of_Cleves" title="Anne of Cleves">Anne of Cleves</a>. This was despite having previously been a strong ally of Cromwell.<sup id="cite_ref-Ives1986_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ives1986-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1542 he warmly supported the privileges of the Commons, but his conduct was inspired as usual by subservience to the court, which desired to secure a subsidy, and his opinion that the arrest was a flagrant contempt has been questioned by good authority.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He received several grants of monastic estates, including <a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Priory,_Aldgate" title="Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate">Holy Trinity Priory</a> in <a href="/wiki/Aldgate" title="Aldgate">Aldgate</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> and <a href="/wiki/Walden_Abbey" title="Walden Abbey">Walden Abbey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>, where his grandson, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Howard,_1st_Earl_of_Suffolk" title="Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk">Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk</a>, built <a href="/wiki/Audley_End" class="mw-redirect" title="Audley End">Audley End</a>, doubtless named after him. In 1542 he endowed and re-established Buckingham College, Cambridge, under the new name of <a href="/wiki/Magdalene_College,_Cambridge" title="Magdalene College, Cambridge">the College of St Mary Magdalene</a> (commonly Magdalene College), and ordained in the statutes that his heirs, "the possessors of the late monastery of Walden" should be <a href="/wiki/Visitor" title="Visitor">Visitors</a> of <a href="/wiki/Magdalene_College,_Cambridge" title="Magdalene College, Cambridge">Magdalene College</a> <i>in perpetuum</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The power to appoint the Master of the college was vested in the Visitor until an amendment to the College Statutes in 2012. The arms of Magdalene are derived from his.<sup id="cite_ref-tudortimes_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tudortimes-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <i>Booke of Orders for the Warre both by Sea and Land</i> (<a href="/wiki/Harleian_MS." class="mw-redirect" title="Harleian MS.">Harleian MS.</a> 297, 144) is attributed to his authorship.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriages_and_progeny">Marriages and progeny</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Audley,_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Marriages and progeny"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lord Audley married twice: </p> <ul><li>Firstly to Christina (or Margaret) Barnardiston, a daughter of Sir Thomas Barnardiston (died 1503), of <a href="/wiki/Kedington" title="Kedington">Kedington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suffolk" title="Suffolk">Suffolk</a>;</li> <li>Secondly to Elizabeth Grey, a daughter of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Grey,_2nd_Marquess_of_Dorset" title="Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset">Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset</a>, by whom he had two daughters, including: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Audley,_Duchess_of_Norfolk" title="Margaret Audley, Duchess of Norfolk">Margaret Audley</a>, who married as her second husband <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Howard,_4th_Duke_of_Norfolk" title="Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk">Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by whom her eldest son was <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Howard,_1st_Earl_of_Suffolk" title="Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk">Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, 1st Baron Howard de Walden</a>, created <a href="/wiki/Baron_Howard_de_Walden" title="Baron Howard de Walden">Baron Howard de Walden</a> in 1597 and <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Suffolk" title="Earl of Suffolk">Earl of Suffolk</a> in 1603.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_burial">Death and burial</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Audley,_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death and burial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He resigned the great seal on 21 April 1544, and died on 30 April and was buried at <a href="/wiki/Saffron_Walden" title="Saffron Walden">Saffron Walden</a>, where he had prepared for himself a splendid tomb. As he died without male progeny his barony became extinct at his death. One of his daughters, Margaret, married as her second husband <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Howard,_4th_Duke_of_Norfolk" title="Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk">Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their elder son <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Howard,_1st_Earl_of_Suffolk" title="Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk">Lord Thomas Howard</a> was created <a href="/wiki/Baron_Howard_de_Walden" title="Baron Howard de Walden">Baron Howard de Walden</a> in 1597 and <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Suffolk" title="Earl of Suffolk">Earl of Suffolk</a> in 1603. <a href="/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Church,_Berechurch" title="St Michael's Church, Berechurch">St Michael's Church, Berechurch</a> in Essex has a monument to him in the Audley Chapel. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Audley,_1st_Baron_Audley_of_Walden&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Ashmole1715-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Ashmole1715_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFAshmole1715" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Elias_Ashmole" title="Elias Ashmole">Ashmole, Elias</a> (1715). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=e29bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA525"><i>The History of the Most Noble Order of the Garter</i></a>. 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(1911). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Audley, Thomas Audley"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Audley,_Thomas_Audley">"Audley, Thomas Audley" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). 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title="List of Speakers of the House of Commons of England">Speaker of the House of Commons</a> </b><br />1529 – 1533 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Wingfield" title="Humphrey Wingfield">Sir Humphrey Wingfield</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a> </b><br /><i>(<a href="/wiki/Lord_Keeper_of_the_Great_Seal_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England">Keeper of the Great Seal</a> since 1532)</i><br />1533 – 1544 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wriothesley,_1st_Earl_of_Southampton" title="Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton">The Earl of Southampton</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><style 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Viscount Brackley</a> (1596–1603)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Italics indicate service when the <a href="/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_Realm" title="Great Seal of the Realm">Greal Seal</a> was held in Commission</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Speakers_of_the_House_of_Commons_(list)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist 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Mare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Pickering" title="James Pickering">Pickering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Guildesborough" title="John Guildesborough">Guildesborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Waldegrave_(politician)" title="Richard Waldegrave (politician)">Waldegrave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Pickering" title="James Pickering">Pickering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bussy" title="John Bussy">Bussy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Cheyne_(speaker)" title="John Cheyne (speaker)">Cheney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Doreward" title="John Doreward">Doreward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Savage" title="Arnold Savage">Savage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Redford" title="Henry Redford">Redford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Savage" title="Arnold Savage">Savage</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">15th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Esturmy" title="William Esturmy">Esturmy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tiptoft,_1st_Baron_Tiptoft" title="John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft">Tiptoft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Chaucer" title="Thomas Chaucer">Chaucer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Stourton_(speaker)" title="William Stourton (speaker)">Stourton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Doreward" title="John Doreward">Doreward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Hungerford,_1st_Baron_Hungerford" title="Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford">Hungerford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Chaucer" title="Thomas Chaucer">Chaucer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Redman_(speaker)" title="Richard Redman (speaker)">Redman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Beauchamp" title="Walter Beauchamp">Beauchamp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Flower" title="Roger Flower">Flower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Hunt_(speaker)" title="Roger Hunt (speaker)">Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Chaucer" title="Thomas Chaucer">Chaucer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Baynard" title="Richard Baynard">Baynard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Flower" title="Roger Flower">Flower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Russell_(speaker)" title="John Russell (speaker)">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Walton" title="Thomas Walton">Walton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Vernon_(speaker)" title="Richard Vernon (speaker)">Vernon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tyrrell_(died_1437)" title="John Tyrrell (died 1437)">Tyrell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Alington_(speaker)" title="William Alington (speaker)">Alington I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tyrrell_(died_1437)" title="John Tyrrell (died 1437)">Tyrell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Russell_(speaker)" title="John Russell (speaker)">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Hunt_(speaker)" title="Roger Hunt (speaker)">Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bowes_(speaker)" title="John Bowes (speaker)">Bowes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tyrrell_(died_1437)" title="John Tyrrell (died 1437)">Tyrell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Burley_(politician)" title="William Burley (politician)">Burley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Tresham" title="William Tresham">W. Tresham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Burley_(politician)" title="William Burley (politician)">Burley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Tresham" title="William Tresham">W. Tresham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Say" title="John Say">Say</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Popham_(military_commander)" title="John Popham (military commander)">Popham I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Tresham" title="William Tresham">W. Tresham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Oldhall" title="William Oldhall">Oldhall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Thorpe_(speaker)" title="Thomas Thorpe (speaker)">Thorpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Charlton_(speaker)" title="Thomas Charlton (speaker)">Charlton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wenlock,_1st_Baron_Wenlock" title="John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock">Wenlock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tresham_(speaker)" title="Thomas Tresham (speaker)">T. Tresham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Green_(speaker)" title="John Green (speaker)">Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Strangeways" title="James Strangeways">Strangeways</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Say" title="John Say">Say</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Alington_(speaker,_died_1479)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Alington (speaker, died 1479)">Alington II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wood_(speaker)" title="John Wood (speaker)">Wood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Catesby" title="William Catesby">Catesby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lovell" title="Thomas Lovell">Lovell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mordaunt_(speaker)" title="John Mordaunt (speaker)">Mordaunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Fitzwilliam" title="Thomas Fitzwilliam">Fitzwilliam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Empson" title="Richard Empson">Empson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Drury_(speaker)" title="Robert Drury (speaker)">Drury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Englefield" title="Thomas Englefield">Englefield</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">16th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Dudley" title="Edmund Dudley">Dudley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Englefield" title="Thomas Englefield">Englefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Sheffield" title="Robert Sheffield">Sheffield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nevill" title="Thomas Nevill">Nevill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_More" title="Thomas More">More</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Audley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Wingfield" title="Humphrey Wingfield">Wingfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Rich,_1st_Baron_Rich" title="Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich">Rich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Hare" title="Nicholas Hare">Hare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Moyle" title="Thomas Moyle">Moyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Baker_(died_1558)" title="John Baker (died 1558)">Baker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Dyer" title="James Dyer">Dyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Pollard_(speaker)" title="John Pollard (speaker)">Pollard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Broke" title="Robert Broke">Broke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clement_Higham" title="Clement Higham">Higham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Cordell" title="William Cordell">Cordell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gargrave" title="Thomas Gargrave">Gargrave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Williams_(speaker)" title="Thomas Williams (speaker)">T. Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Onslow_(Solicitor_General)" title="Richard Onslow (Solicitor General)">Onslow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Wray_(English_judge)" title="Christopher Wray (English judge)">Wray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bell_(speaker)" title="Robert Bell (speaker)">Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Popham_(judge)" title="John Popham (judge)">Popham II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Puckering" title="John Puckering">Puckering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Snagge" title="Thomas Snagge">Snagge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Coke" title="Edward Coke">Coke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Yelverton" title="Christopher Yelverton">Yelverton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">17th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Croke" title="John Croke">Croke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Phelips_(speaker)" title="Edward Phelips (speaker)">Phelips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranulph_Crewe" title="Ranulph Crewe">R. 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