John Tuchet, 6th Baron Audley, 3rd Baron Tuchet (1423 – 26 September 1490) was an English politician.
John Tuchet was the son of James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (c. 1398 - 1459). He married Ann Echyngham (daughter of Sir Thomas Echyngham (died 1444) and Margaret Knyvet,F.H. Suckling, 'Some Notes on Barsham juxta Beccles, co. Suffolk', The Genealogist XXI (1905), (second part, pp. 243-50), at pp. 245-46 (Internet Archive). and widow of John Rogers of BryanstonCalendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI, Vol. V: 1446-1452 (HMSO 1909), p. 411 (HathiTrust).),The sequence of the marriages is mistakenly reversed in the article on James Touchet (died 1497) in the old Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. LVII (Smith, Elder & Co., 1899), pp. 76-77 (Internet Archive). with whom he had seven children. He acquired his title by writ in 1459 on the death of his father.
In 1460 at Calais, then belonging to the English crown, he was taken prisoner by the Earl of Warwick whilst on a military expedition during the Wars of the Roses. He there met the future Edward IV and was persuaded to defect to the Yorkist cause and fought for Edward at the Battles of Mortimer's Cross (1461), Barnet (1471) and Tewkesbury (1471). He was subsequently invested by Edward in 1471 as a Privy Counsellor (PC). He received commissions of Array. He was joint commander of the Army and held the office of Master of the King's Dogs in 1471. He was present when King Edward bestowed the title of Earl of Winchester upon Louis Seigneur de la Gruthuyse in 1472.F. Madden, 'Narratives of the arrival of Louis de Bruges, Seigneur de la Gruthuyse, in England, and of his Creation as Earl of Winchester, in 1472', Archaeologia XXVI (1836), at pp. 280-84 (Google).
Richard III appointed him Lord High Treasurer in December 1484, in succession to Sir John Wood.A.B. Steel, The Receipt of the Exchequer, 1377-1485 (Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 421 (Google).
John Tuchet died on 26 September 1490 and was buried at Shere, Surrey.'Parishes: Shere - Manor of Vachery Shiere', in H.E. Malden (ed.), A History of the County of Surrey Vol. 3 (VCH, London 1911), pp. 111-121 (British History Online). He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley (1463–1497). His wife Anne, who outlived him, was later buried at Bermondsey. Her will was written in 1497 and proved in 1498.Will of Dame Anne Lady Audeley, Widow, of the Close of the Monastery of St Saviours, Bermondsey (P.C.C. 1498, Horne quire).
References
ThePeerage.com entry