Is it at all possible that Ela de Audley also married Peter Giffard before she married Peter Corbet?
From Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume 5 (which may have mixed up the John Giffards)
https://books.google.com/books?id=mAo5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA101&lpg...
Before proceeding with the history of the successors of the last Sir John Giffard, I propose to devote a page to the career of his half-brother Sir Peter Giffard, who played a not unimportant part in the troubled reign of Edward II.
He first appears in Ada Giffardâs deed of 10 E. II (March, 1317), by which Ada grants to Peter Gifi'ard, her son, all her interest in Gunston (deed No. 13).
In 13 E. II (1319), he was serving in Scotland in the retinue of John de Cherleton. This John was married to Hawyse, the sister and heir of C-rifiin de la Pole, the Prince of Powis, and in the same year we find Peter Giffard married to Ela, the widow of Grifiin. The latter had died under age in 1309, leaving no issue, and .Ela married J ames de Perrers1 shortly afterwards, and had been left a widow for a second time when she married Peter Gifi'ard. Ela was daughter of Nicholas, Lord Audley, and her mother Katherine was a daughter of John Giffard, the Baron of Brimsfield.
On the De Banco Roll of Michaelmas, 13 E. II, Peter Giffard and Ela, his wife, sued Walter de Grendon to render to them an account for the time he had been the bailiff of the said Ela in Tissington, co. Derby.â
At Michaelmas term, 15 E. II, Joan, late wife of Nicholas de Audley, sued Peter Giffard and Ela, his wife, for 10 marks of rent in Legh Underbrokhurst, in which Ela had no entry except through Nicholas de Audley, the husband of Joan, who had demised the rent to Ela and to James de Perers, formerly her husband, and to which Joan could not object during the lifetime of her husband.8
By this marriage Peter had become a very large landowner in Wales, for besides Elaâs dower as widow of Griffin de la Pole, the Prince of Powis, her mother, Katherine de Audley, by a deed in the Liber Rubeus, had granted to James de Perers and to Ela, her daughter, the castle and manor of Thlamandewry, with the Commotes of Hormyn and Pernet, to be held by them and the heirs of their bodies. This deed also proves the parentage of Ela, for Katherine was the wife of Nicholas, Lord Audley, who died in 1299.1
Sir Peter, as the husband of a dowager Princess of Powis, must have been an important person in Wales at this juncture. The King had recalled the Despencers on the 8th December, 1321, and immediately ordered a levy of men from Wales and from the counties of Sussex, Oxford, Berks, Hants, Northampton, Stafford, Warwick, and Lancaster.
In January, 1322, on the rebellion of Roger de Mortimer, the King committed to Peter Giffard the custody of the Castle of Chirk, which was the caput of the Barony of Mortimer. On the 5th March in the same year, when the King assembled his forces at Coventry to attack the Confederate Lords under the Earl of Lancaster, he commanded Sir Peter Giffard to send to the rendezvous of the army at Coventry 500 men from Chirk.â
The Commissioners of Array for co. Stafford were John de Swynnerton and John Gififard of Chillington, who were ordered to raise 2,000 men and conduct them to the King wherever he might be.
The King had always been popular with the Welsh, and a large body of that nation joined his standard. On hearing of his approach, the Earl of Lancaster raised the siege of Tickhill and attempted to defend the line of the Trent, but the King passed by a ford, and the Earl fell back towards Scotland. At Boroughbridge he was intercepted by a force from Cumberland, and after a few hoursâ fighting, his army was defeated and dispersed.
Sir Peter Gifi'ard must have taken part in these operations, for his arms are entered on the famous Roll of Boroughbridge. He bore azure, three stirrups and leathers gold and a border for distinction as a younger son. I think it probable that he served as a banneret upon this occasion. The battle was fought on the 22nd March.
In the following year he was dead, for on the 22nd April, 16 E. II (1323), the King issued a writ to the Sheriff of Salop and Stafiord commanding him to take into the Kingâs hands all the goods and chattels of Peter Gifiard, late custos of the Castle of Chirk, who was dead, and who was indebted at the date of his death in divers sums to the King.1 Apparently the harshness of the Kingâs fiscal ofiicers upon this occasion alienated Ela, the widow of Sir Peter, from her allegiance to the Kingâs cause, for two years afterwards there is an entry on the Fine Roll of 18 E. II stating that Ela, formerly wife of James de Percrs, who had been indicted for adhering to the Kingâs enemies, made oath, and found security for her good behaviour in a sum of £300. It is not unusual to find a widow designated in this way on the Rolls under the name of a previous husband.
Peter left a son Hugh, who served in the expedition to Hennebonne in 1342. He was probably son of Peter by a former wife and was one of a body of outlaws employed by Edward III, who, having found sureties to serve at their own cost, obtained a general pardon dated from (Jastry on the 16th September, 1342.â
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