Biography of James Tuchet 3rd Earl Castlehaven 1617-1686

Before 1612 [his father] Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven (age 18) and [his mother] Elizabeth Barnham Countess Castlehaven (age 19) were married. He the son of [his grandfather] George Tuchet 1st Earl Castlehaven (age 60) and [his grandmother] Lucy Mervyn Baroness Audley and Tuchet.

Around 1617 James Tuchet 3rd Earl Castlehaven was born to [his father] Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven (age 24) and [his mother] Elizabeth Barnham Countess Castlehaven (age 25).

In 1617 [his grandfather] George Tuchet 1st Earl Castlehaven (age 66) died. His son [his father] Mervyn (age 24) succeeded 2nd Earl Castlehaven, 12th Baron Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire, 9th Baron Tuchet, 2nd Baron Audley of Orier in England. [his mother] Elizabeth Barnham Countess Castlehaven (age 25) by marriage Countess Castlehaven.

In 1622 [his mother] Elizabeth Barnham Countess Castlehaven (age 30) died.

On 22nd July 1624 [his father] Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven (age 31) and [his step-mother] Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 44) were married at Harefield. She by marriage Countess Castlehaven. She the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby and Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 75). He the son of [his grandfather] George Tuchet 1st Earl Castlehaven and [his grandmother] Lucy Mervyn Baroness Audley and Tuchet. They were sixth cousins. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

On 3rd June 1633 James Tuchet 3rd Earl Castlehaven (age 16) was created 1st Baron Audley of Hely in Ireland.

After 1649 [his brother] Mervyn Tuchet 4th Earl Castlehaven and [his sister-in-law] Mary Talbot Countess Castlehaven were married. She the daughter of John Talbot 10th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 48) and Mary Fortescue Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford. He the son of [his father] Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven and [his mother] Elizabeth Barnham Countess Castlehaven.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 11th August 1664. He gone, I late to my office, and cannot forbear admiring and consulting my new rule, and so home to supper and to bed. This day, for a wager before the King (age 34), my Lords of Castlehaven (age 47) and Arran (age 25) (a son of my Lord of Ormond's (age 53)), they two alone did run down and kill a stoute bucke in St. James's parke.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 1st June 1667. Up; and there comes to me Mr. Commander, whom I employ about hiring of some ground behind the office, for the building of me a stable and coach-house: for I do find it necessary for me, both in respect to honour and the profit of it also, my expense in Hackney-coaches being now so great, to keep a coach, and therefore will do it. Having given him some instructions about it, I to the office, where we sat all the morning; where we have news that our peace with Spayne, as to trade, is wholly concluded, and we are to furnish him with some men for Flanders against the French. How that will agree with the French, I know not; but they say that he also hath liberty, to get what men he pleases out of England. But for the Spaniard, I hear that my Lord Castlehaven (age 50) is raising a regiment of 4000 men, which he is to command there; and several young gentlemen are going over in commands with him: and they say the Duke of Monmouth (age 18) is going over only as a traveller, not to engage on either side, but only to see the campagne, which will be becoming him much more than to live whoreing and rogueing, as he now do.

In or before 1678 James Tuchet 3rd Earl Castlehaven (age 60) and Elizabeth Brydges Countess Castlehaven (age 58) were married. She by marriage Countess Castlehaven. She the daughter of Grey Brydges 5th Baron Chandos and Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven. He the son of Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven and Elizabeth Barnham Countess Castlehaven.

In 1678 [his wife] Elizabeth Brydges Countess Castlehaven (age 59) died.

In 1678 James Tuchet 3rd Earl Castlehaven (age 61) was restored 13th Baron Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire, 10th Baron Tuchet by Act of Parliament.

Around 19th June 1679 James Tuchet 3rd Earl Castlehaven (age 62) and Elizabeth Graves Baroness Audley Heighley were married. She by marriage Baroness Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire. He the son of Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven and Elizabeth Barnham Countess Castlehaven.

John Evelyn's Diary. 25th November 1682. I was invited to dine with Monsieur Lionberg, the Swedish Resident, who made a magnificent entertainment, it being the birthday of his King. There dined the Duke of Albemarle, Duke of Hamilton (age 47), Earl of Bath (age 54), Earl of Aylesbury (age 56), Lord Arran (age 24), Lord Castlehaven (age 65), the son of [his father] him who was executed fifty years before, and several great persons. I was exceedingly afraid of drinking (it being a Dutch feast), but the Duke of Albemarle being that night to wait on his Majesty, excess was prohibited; and, to prevent all, I stole away and left the company as soon as we rose from table.

John Evelyn's Diary. 17th June 1683. I dined at the Earl of Sunderland's (age 41) with the Earls of Bath (age 54), Castlehaven (age 66), Lords Viscount Falconberg (age 56), Falkland (age 27), Bishop of London, the Grand Master of Malta, brother to the Duke de Vendôme (a young wild spark), and Mr. Dryden (age 51), the poet. After evening prayer, I walked in the park with my Lord Clarendon, where we fell into discourse of the Bishop of Salisbury (Dr. Seth Ward), his subtlety, etc. Dr. Durell, late Dean of Windsor, being dead, Dr. Turner, one of the Duke's chaplains was made dean.

On 11th October 1686 James Tuchet 3rd Earl Castlehaven (age 69) died at Kilcash Castle, County Tipperary. His brother [his brother] Mervyn succeeded 4th Earl Castlehaven, 14th Baron Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire, 11th Baron Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley of Orier in England, 2nd Baron Audley of Hely in Ireland but only for three weeks. He died on 2nd November 1686. [his sister-in-law] Mary Talbot Countess Castlehaven by marriage Countess Castlehaven.