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Emma d'Audley, lady of Bromfield (also known as Emma of Bromfield; d. after 1282) was the daughter of the Marcher baron Henry d'Audley and the childless widow of Henry Tuschet, lord of Lee Cumbray (modern-day Leegomery in Shropshire).[Ref Gwenyth Richards, p. 148] Shortly after the death of her first husband, Emma became the wife of the ruler of northern Powys, Gruffudd ap Madog of Bromfield (d. December 1269) [hyperlink], and a key figure in the history of his dynasty. As a member of the Marcher aristocracy and a the wife and widow of a powerful Welsh ruler, Emma lived a cross-border existence and witnessed to the last decades of Welsh independence. Although her sons sided with the Prince of Wales, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Emma herself remained loyal to the English king in the conquest of Wales. Her lengthy second widowhood is used by historians a lense through which to view the legal, political and family conflicts that arose in ...

Marriages and Family
Emma was born, probably in the first quarter of the thirteenth century, to Henry d'Audley and Bertrada Mainwaring. She was a sister to James d'Audley, the heir to the family estates. Through their mother, Emma and her siblings were descended from Hugh de Kevelioc (d. 1181), earl of Chester and Robert earl of Gloucester, illegitimate son of Henry I and right-hand man of the Empress Matilda during The Anarchy (1135-54).

Emma's first marriage, to the Shropshire lord Henry Tuschet ended childless with the Tuschet's death in ... By ... Emma had married the native Welsh ruler Gruffudd ap Madog of northern Powys

Later Life
Emma was ultimately rewarded

Issue
Although her first marriage was childless, Emma's union with Gruffudd ap Madog resulted in the birth of at least two daughters and four sons: Angharad Margery Madog Llywelyn Owain Gruffudd Roger