Liulf de AUDLEY

• Reference: 1792

1. Adam de AUDLEY

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Notes

1910 work, pages 18-36, discusses the orgins of this family.

"Todd A. Farmerie" posted to

soc.genealogy.medieval on 7 Feb 1997 (in part):

Subject: Re: 1st post...this is interesting!

"Well, such stories are the common fare of medieval genealogy.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of them are entirely unfounded. Round

traces the development of such a legend in the Audley family, where

someone named Liulf (a classical English name) living a century or more

after King William was the earliest person some "genealogist" could

trace to. Because of the cultural desire of the family to be descended

from one of the Conqueror's companions, this man was thrown back in

time and turned into a Norman knight accompanying William to England.

Then, it would seem, as it became the hip thing to have an ancestor in

England BEFORE the Conquest, a later "genealogist" invented an English

nobleman Henry (a name of german origin common among the French and

post-conquest Norman nobility) to be father-in-law of Liulf.

(I put genealogist in quotes, because the medieval "genealogist" would

be shocked by his modern counterpart. They were more interested in a

good story than whether or not it it was true. Unfortunately, there is

no term for the genealogical alchemist.)"