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Touchet FAMILY
Orme Touchet (To32)
Born: 1070, Buglawton, Cheshire, England
Married: ¿?
Children:
(To31) Matthew Touchet
(To31-2) Jocelin Touchet, Lord of Buglanton
(To31-3) Adam Touchet

Jocelin Touchet (To31-2) Lord of Buglanton
Born: ABT 1102, Mackworth
Father: Orme Touchet
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
(To32-2-1) Henry Touchet, Lord of Long Clawson

Henry Touchet (To31-2-1) Lord of Long Clawson
Born: ABT 1132, Buglanton, Cheshire, England
Died: ABT 1159
Father: Jocelin Touchet (Lord of Buglanton)
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
(To31-2-1-1) Henry Touchet, Lord of Long Clawson

Henry Touchet (To31-2-1-1) Lord of Long Clawson
Born: ABT 1154, Buglanton, Cheshire, England
Died: ABT 1178
Father: Henry Touchet Lord of Long Clawson)
Mother:
Married: Maud ?

Matthew Touchet (To31)
Born: 1100
Father: Orme Touchet
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Simon Touchet

Simon Touchet (To30)
Born: 1132
Father: Matthew Touchet
Mother: ¿?
Married 1: Petronilla de CUMBRE
Children:
(To29). Robert Touchet
Married 2: Alice de COLEVILLE

Robert Touchet (To29)
Born: 1160
Father: Simon Touchet (To30)
Mother: Petronilla de CUMBRE
Married: Alice FITZROGER
Children:
(To28) Thomas Touchet

Thomas Touchet (To28)
Born: ABT 1192, Buglanton, Cheshire, England
Died: ABT 1235
Father: Robert Touchet (To29)
Mother: Alice FITZROGER
Married: Isambella ? (b. ABT 1178 - d. ABT 1248)
Children:
1. Henry Touchet
(To27) Robert Touchet
3. William Touchet

Henry Touchet
Born: ABT 1200
Died: 8 Jan 1242
Father: Thomas Touchet
Mother: Isambella ?
Married 1: Basilea ?
Married 2: Emma de AUDLEY
Children:
1. Simon Touchet (m. Alice Colville)

William Touchet
Born: ABT 1222, Great Cotes, Lincolnshire
Father: Thomas Touchet
Mother: Isambella ?
Married: Maud BURNELL
Children:
1. Nicholas Touchet

Nicholas Touchet
Died: 1312
Father: William Touchet
Mother: Maud BURNELL
Married: Alicia de KYME (dau. of Phillip de Kyme and Agnes (Alice) Walley)

Robert Touchet (To27)
Born: ABT 1218, Buglanton, Cheshire, England
Died: 13 Oct 1248
Father: Thomas Touchet
Mother: Isambella ?
Married: Eva de APLEBY
Children:
1. Thomas Touchet
2. Richard Touchet (b. 1246)

Thomas Touchet (To26)
Born: 1244, Buglanton, Cheshire, England
Died: 1315
Father: Robert Touchet (To27)
Mother: Eva de APLEBY
Married: Margery ?
Children:
(To25) Robert Touchet
(To25-2) Simon Touchet (b. 1279)

Robert Touchet (To25)
Born:25 Dec 1264 / 1275, Buglawton, Cheshire, England
Died:1337 / 1341, Mark Eaton, Derbyshire, England
Father:Thomas Touchet (To26)
Mother:Margery ?
Married 1: Agnes ?ABT 1294
Children:
(To24) Thomas Touchet
Married 2: Joan DUTTON ABT 1300
Children:
(To24-2) Robert Touchet

Robert Touchet (To24-2)
Born:ABT 1310
Father:Robert Touchet
Mother:Joan DUTTON
Married:Maud BROMHALL

Thomas Touchet (To24)
Born: ABT 1296, Mark Eaton, Derby, England
Died:18 Aug 1350
Father:Robert Touchet
Mother:Agnes ?
Married: Joan ?
Children:
1. James Touchet
(To23) John Touchet of Markeaton (Sir)
3. Humphrey Touchet
¿4. Nicholas Touchet (1º B. Audley of Heleigh by writ - 10º B. Audley by Tenure)?

James Touchet
Born: 1312
Died: 1386
Father: Thomas Touchet
Mother: Joan ?
Married: Beatrice de AUDLEY (dau. of JamesDe Audley3ºBaron Audley of Heleigh and JoanDe Mortimer)
Children:
1. Roger Touchet
2. Humphrey Touchet
3. Charles Touchet
4. James Touchet
5. Elizabeth Touchet

Roger Touchet
Born: 1345, Maccleston, Derby, England
Father: James Touchet
Mother: Beatrice de AUDLEY
Married: Anne HUSSEY 1346
Children:
1. Beatrice Touchet

Sir John Touchet of Markeaton (To23)
Born: 25 Jul 1327, Maccleston, Derby, England
Died: 22 Jun 1371, Rochelle, Derby, England
Father: Thomas Touchet
Mother: Joan ?
Married: Joan de AUDLEY (b. ABT 1332) (dau. of Jamesde Audley3rdBaron Audley of Heleigh and Joande Mortimer)
Children:
(To22) John Touchet
(to22-2) Thomas Touchet (b. ABT 1352)
(To22-1) Richard Touchet of Mackworth

Richard Touchet of Mackworth
Born:ABT 1354, Mackworth
Father: John Touchet of Markeaton (Sir)
Mother: Joan de AUDLEY
Married: Catherine KNIVETON

John Touchet (To22)
Born: ABT 1350, Markeston, Derbyshire, England
Died: 23 Jun 1372
Father: John Touchet of Markeaton (Sir)
Mother: Joan de AUDLEY
Married: Maud de MORTIMER (b. ABT 1352 - d. 1405) BEF 1371
Children:
(To21) John Touchet (1st Baron Audley of Heleigh)

John Touchet, 1st Baron Audley of Heleigh (To21)
Born:23 Apr 1371
Died:19 Dec 1408
Notes: REF FarisPA. Of Magna Charta Surety descent and descendant of Charlemagne.Served under Henry IV in the war against Glendower and the French
Father:John Touchet
Mother:Maud de MORTIMER
Married: Isabel ?
Children:
1. James Touchet (2º B. Audley of Heleigh)
2. Margaret Touchet
3. Elizabeth Touchet

Margaret Touchet
Born:ABT 1399
Father: John Touchet (1º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Isabel ?
Married:John MANWARING
Children:
1. William MAINWARING

Elizabeth Touchet
Born:ABT 1401
Father: John Touchet (1º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Isabel ?
Married:John BASKERVILLE
Children:
1. James BASKERVILLE (m. Catherine Devereux)
2. Jane BASKERVILLE (m. John Monington)

James Touchet, 2nd Baron Audley of Heleigh To20=18
Born: ABT 1398, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Died: 23 Sep 1458/9, Blore Heath, Salop, Shropshire, England
Notes: slain by the Yorkists at the battle of Blore Heath
Father: John Touchet, 1st Baron Audley of Heleigh
Mother: Isabel ?
Married 1: Margaret de ROS (Baroness Audley of Heleigh) 24 Feb 1414/15,Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Children:
To19=17 John Touchet (3º B. Audley of Heleigh)
To19-2 Anne Touchet
To19-3 Margaret Touchet (C. Tankerville)
Married 2: Eleanor HOLLAND (dau. of Edmund Holland, 4º E. of Kent, and Constance Plantagenet) 14 Feb  1428/29,Disp
Children:
To19 Elizabeth Touchet (Baroness Cobham)
To19-5 Constance Touchet
To19-6 Humphrey Touchet (Sir Knight)
To19-7 Edmund Touchet (Bishop of Rochester)
To19-8 Thomas Touchet
To19-9 Anne Touchet
To19-10 Dau. Touchet

(To19-1) Anne Touchet
Born: 1422, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Died: 1503
Notes: Sir Thomas de Dutton with his brother John and eldest son Peter Dutton killed at the battle of Blore-Heath in Cheshire Sunday, 23 Sep 1459, during the War of the Roses. In 1527, at the death of Laurence Dutton of Dutton without a male heir, Dutton property passed to Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton whose right contested by heirs-general of Sir Hugh Dutton. In 1534, Termination of the Dutton lawsuit by awary of Henry VIII (May 16) by which Sir Piers Dutton of Hatton became owner of Dutton, confirmed by Act of Parliament in 1536.
Father: James Touchet (2º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Margaret De ROS (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married 1: Thomas DUTTON (Sir) (son of John Dutton and Margaret Savage)
Children:
(To19-1-1) Peter DUTTON
(To19-1-2) Margaret DUTTON (m.1 Thomas Aston - m.2 Ralph Vernon)
(To19-1-3) Anne DUTTON (m. Thomas Molyneux)
(To19-1-4) Isabel DUTTON (m. Christopher Southworth)
(To19-1-5) Maud DUTTON (m. William Booth)
(To19-1-6) John DUTTON (b. ABT 1444 - d. ABT 1473) (m. Margaret Molyneux)
(To19-1-7) Eleanor DUTTON (m. Richard Cholmondeley, Esq.)
(To19-1-8) Elizabeth DUTTON (m. Ralph Bostock)
(To19-1-9) Alice DUTTON
(To19-1-10) Laurence DUTTON (b. ABT 1458 - d. AFT 1522)
Married 2: Hugh DONE
Children:
(To19-1-11) Elizabeth DONE (m. John Egerton)

(To19-3) Margaret Touchet (C. Tankerville)
Born: 1422, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Died: BEF 2 Feb 1480/1, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Father: James Touchet (2º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Margaret De ROS (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married 1: Richard GREY (3° E. Tankerville) 12 Jan 1458
Children:
(To19-3-1) John GREY (3° B. Powis)
(To19-3-2) Elizabeth GREY
Married 2: Roger VAUGHAN
Children:
(To19-3-3) Dau. VAUGHAN (m. Humphrey Newton)
Married 3: Son BERKELEY

Elizabeth Touchet Baroness Cobham (To19)
Born: ABT 1433
Father: James Touchet, 2nd Baron Audley of Heleigh (To20)
Mother: Eleanor HOLLAND (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married 1: Edward BROOKE 1st Baron Cobham (Br19) ABT 1447, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Children:
(Br18) John BROOKE 2nd Baron Cobham
2. Elizabeth BROOKE
3. Mary BROOKE
Married 2: Christopher WORSLEY BEF 8 Nov 1464

(To19-5) Constance Touchet
Born: 1443, Heleigh, Staffordshire
Died: AFT 1467
Father: James Touchet (2nd Baron Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Eleanor HOLLAND (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married: Robert WHITNEY of Whitney (son of Eustace Whitney and Jennet Russell) ABT 1464
Children:
(To19-5-1) James WHITNEY (m. Blanche Milbourne)and had Elizabeth Whitney who married Thomas Morgan and had ....
2. Joan WHITNEY (m. Roger Vaughan)
3. Eleanor WHITNEY (m. John Pulleston)
4. John WHITNEY
5. Robert WHITNEY

Anne Touchet
Born: ABT 1446
Father: James Touchet (2º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Eleanor HOLLAND (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married 1: Edward COBHAM
Married 2: Richard de La BERE ABT 1462, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Children:
1. Thomas de La BERE
2. Seneca de La BERE (b. ABT 1486 - d. 1526) (m. Elizabeth Baskerville)

Dau. Touchet
Born: ABT 1442, Powis, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Father: James Touchet (2º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Eleanor HOLLAND (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married: Humphrey GREY ABT 1468
Children:
1. John GREY

Edmund Touchet (Bishop of Rochester)
Born: 1437, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Died: 23 Aug 1524, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Buried: Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Notes: Bishop of Rochester 1480-1493; of Hereford 1493-1502; and of Salisbury 1502-1524.
Father: James Touchet (2º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Eleanor HOLLAND (B. Audley of Heleigh)

Thomas Touchet
Born: 1439, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Died: Jun 1507
Buried:Monastery, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England
Father: James Touchet (2nd Baron Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Eleanor HOLLAND (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married: Catherine ? ABT 1469, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England
Children:
1. Anne AUDLEY (b. 1507)

Humphrey Touchet (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1435
Died: 6 May 1471, Battle of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England
Father: James Touchet (2º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Eleanor HOLLAND (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married: Elizabeth COURTENAY ABT 1462
Children:
1. Elizabeth Touchet
2. Philippa Touchet
3. John AUDLEY Touchet (Sir)

Elizabeth Touchet
Born: ABT 1472, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Died: BEF 5 Sep 1559
Father: Humphrey Touchet (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth COURTENAY
Married: John SYDENHAM (son of Walter Sydenham and Margaret Harcourt) (m. 2 Joan Arundell) ABT 1492, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Children:
1. Henry SYDENHAM (b. ABT 1493 - d. ABT 1519) (m. Eleanor Warre)
2. John SYDENHAM (m. Ursula Brydges)
3. Alice SYDENHAM
4. Margery SYDENHAM
5. Thomas SYDENHAM of Whetstow (m. Elizabeth Gross)

Philippa Touchet
Born: ABT 1461, Dublin, Ireland?
Father: Humphrey Touchet (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth COURTENAY
Married: Richard HADLEY 1493
Children:
1. William HADLEY
2. John HADLEY
3. George HADLEY
4. Henry HADLEY
5. Jane HADLEY
6. Anne HADLEY
7. James HADLEY
8. Joan HADLEY

John AUDLEY Touchet (Sir)
Born: ABT 1468, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England
Died: 8 Apr 1529
Father: Humphrey Touchet (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth COURTENAY
Married: Muriel BREWSE (b. ABT 1468, Winham, Suffolk, England)
Children:
1. Ellen AUDLEY

Ellen AUDLEY
Born: ABT 1500, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England
Father: John AUDLEY Touchet (Sir)
Mother: Muriel BREWSE
Married: Thomas DERHAM (b. ABT 1498, Crimplesham, Norfolk, England) ABT 1522, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England
Children:
1. Thomasine DERHAM (b. ABT 1525) (m. John Throckmorton)

John Touchet (3º B. Audley of Heleigh) To17
Born: 1420, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Died: 26 Sep 1490, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Notes: had livery of his lands in 1459-60, joined Edward IV, was summoned to parliament from 1461 to 1483, and was sworn of the privy council in 1471. He was employed in Britany in 1475, and was present at the coronation of Richard III, who appointed him lord treasurer in 1484.
Father: James Touchet (2º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Margaret De ROS (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married: Anne ECHINGHAM Ec17 (B. Audley of Heleigh) (b. ABT 1420 - d. 7 May 1498) (dau. of Sir Thomas de Echingham and Margaret Knyvett) (w. of Sir John Rogers) BEF 1456,Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Children:
To16-1. Eleanor Touchet
To16. Anne Touchet
To16-3. Elizabeth Touchet
To16-4. James Touchet (4º B. Audley of Heleigh)
To16-5. John Touchet
To16-6. Thomas Touchet

John Touchet
Father: John Touchet (3º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Anne ECHINGHAM (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married 1: Dau. PLANTAGENET
Married 2: ¿?

Anne Touchet To16
Born: ABT 1455, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
To16 Died: 13 Nov 1559
Father: John Touchet (3º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Anne ECHINGHAM (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married: Sir John WINGFIELD of Letheringham Wi16
Children:
Wi15. Sir Anthony WINGFIELD of Letheringham Wi15
Wi15-2. Edward WINGFIELD
Wi15-3. Edmund WINGFIELD
Wi15-4. Margaret WINGFIELD
Wi15-5. Elizabeth WINGFIELD
Wi15-6. Anne WINGFIELD
Wi15-7. Hugh WINGFIELD

Eleanor Touchet
Father: John Touchet (3º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Mother: Anne ECHINGHAM (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married: Roger LEWKNOR of Dedisham and Bodiam (Sir Knight) (b. 1465 - d. 1543)
Children:
1. Jane LEWKNOR (m.1 Christopher Pickering - m.2 Sir Arthur Pole - m.3 Sir William Barentyn)

James Touchet (4º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Born: 1468/9, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
Died: 28 Jun 1497, London, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: John Touchet (3º 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

John Touchet (5º B. Audley of Heleigh)
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 1616/17
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
Children:
1. Christian Touchet
2. Mervyn Touchet (2º E. Castlehaven)
3. Mary Touchet (b.1579)
4. Eleanor Touchet (b.1579)
5. Maria Touchet (b.1585)
6. Eleanor Touchet (b.1589)
Married 2: Elizabeth NOEL (C. Castlehaven)

Christian Touchet
Born: 1587
Father: George Touchet (1º E. Castleheaven)
Mother: Lucia MERVYN
Married: Henry MERVYN
Children:
1. Deborah MERVYN
2. Audley MERVYN

Mervyn Touchet (2º E. Castlehaven)
Born: ABT 1592
Died: 14 May 1631, Tower Hill, London, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: George Touchet (1º E. Castleheaven)
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
Father: Mervyn Touchet (2º E. Castlehaven)
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
Father: Mervyn Touchet (2º E. Castlehaven)
Mother: Elizabeth BARNHAM
Married: Richard BUTLER of Kilcash

Dorothy Touchet
Father: Mervyn Touchet (2º E. Castlehaven)
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, ElizabethBarnham. 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 to Elizabeth 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.
 
Father: Mervyn Touchet (2º E. Castlehaven)
Mother: Elizabeth BARNHAM
Married 1: Elizabeth BRYDGES (C. Castleheaven)
Married 2: Elizabeth GRAVES (C. Castlehaven)

Mervyn Touchet (11º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Died: 1686
Father: Mervyn Touchet (2º E. Castlehaven)
Mother: Elizabeth BARNHAM
Married 1: Mary TALBOT (B. Audley of Heleigh)
Children:
1. James Touchet (12º B. Audley of Heleigh)
Married 2: Mary ARUNDELL (B. Audley of Heleigh)

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