ASTON, Sir John

1471 - 1523  (52 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	ASTON, John
  Prefix	Sir
  Birth	1471	Ashtead, Surrey, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Mar 1523	Heywood & Tixall, Straffordshire, England   [1]
  Burial	8 May 1523	Ashtead, Surrey, England
  WAC	24 Nov 1939	SLAKE   [2]
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  Person ID	I29050	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Father	ASTON, Sir John ,   b. 1444, Ashtead, Surrey, England Ashtead, Surrey, Englandd. 1494, Wanton, Staffordshire, England (Age 50 years)
  Mother	DELVES, Elizabeth ,   b. 1448, Doddington, Cheshire, England Doddington, Cheshire, Englandd. Aft 1531, Astede, Surrey, England (Age > 84 years)
  Marriage	1467	Ashtead, Surrey, England
  Family ID	F15354	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	LITTLETON, Joan ,   b. Abt 1475, Tixall, Staffordshire, England Tixall, Staffordshire, Englandd. 29 Mar 1505, Staffordshire, England (Age 30 years)
  Family ID	F16332	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  SIR JOHN ASTON of Heywood and Tixall in Stafford, ninth in line from Ralph de Aston, was the eldest son and heir of John Aston and his wife Elizabeth Delves. . He was a member of Parliament for Staffordshire 1495-96-97-1504-10-15-23. He was also Sheriff of Stafford in 1500-01, 1508-09; 1513-14; and of Warwick and Leicester 1510-11. . He was made a Knight of the Bath at the marriage of Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry V, in 1501. . ---PAGE 420 --- . He was in the Staffordshire Contingent in France and accompanied Henry VII in his expedition into Brittany. He was present at the sieges of Terrouenne and Tournay. For his bravery at the Battle of Spurs he was made a knight banneret by the King on the field of battle. . Before he departed overseas he made his will dated April 24, 1513, beginning as follows: "intending to depart over see with our most dreadde soverayne in his royall armee". This will was proven April 25, 1523 (P.C.C. 6 Bodfille). . Sir John Aston died March 28 in the 14th year of reign of Henry VII (1523) seized of lands and tenements in Wollaster and Orne which he held of the King as of his manor of Church Eyton by his fealty only of the value of 100 S., the said manor of Church Eyton having come into the King's hands by the forfeiture of Edward, late Duke of Buckingham, attained for high treason. . He married Joan, daughter of Sir William Littleton, son of the famous Chief Justice Thomas Littleton (See Littleton Cobham Burke's Peerage 1929), from whom Joan inherited Tixall; and from her mother Helen and coheir of Robert Welsh, Esq. and his wife Margery, daughter and coheiress of Sir Richard Byron, she inherited Wanlip in Leicester.

  
  

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  [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Sir John Aston; Male; Birth: About 1471 Of Ashtede, , Surrey, England; Death: 08 MAY 1523; Father: John Aston; Mother: Elizabeth Delves; Spouse: Joan Littleon; Sealing to Spouse: 13 MAR 1961 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah; Film Number: 457707 Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church Search performed using PAF Insight on 24 Sep 2004 [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Sir John Aston; Male; Birth: About 1471 Of Ashtede, , Surrey, England; Death: 08 MAY 1523; Baptism: 07 MAY 1938; Endowment: 24 NOV 1939; Sealing to Spouse: 13 MAR 1961 SLAKE; Joan Littleon; Father: John Aston; Mother: Elizabeth Delves; Spouse: Joan Littleon; Sealing to Spouse: 13 MAR 1961 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah; Relative/Proxy: Archibald Delos Gardner; Film Number: 457707 Record of LDS Church ordinance (living or proxy). Search performed using PAF Insight on 24 Sep 2004