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Biography

From “Landed families of Britain and Ireland - (216) Assheton of Downham Hall, Whalley Abbey, Great Lever and Middleton Hall, baronets and Barons Clitheroe - part 2“ (Thursday, 12 May 2016) < link >

Assheton, Sir Richard (c.1482-1549). Eldest son of Sir Richard Assheton (d. 1507), kt. and his wife Isabel, daughter of John Talbot of Salebury, born about 1482. A distinguished warrior, who raised a company of archers from his estate for the Scottish wars and was knighted for his valour at the Battle of Flodden, 1513, where he took the Scottish standard-bearer's sword and captured Sir John Foreman, the Scottish monarch's serjeant-porter, who later identified the body of King James IV. On his return from the war, he continued the rebuilding of Middleton church and commissioned the "Flodden Window" depicting himself and his wife, the seventeen captains of his troop of archers, and the priest Henry Taylor who blessed them before the battle, commemorating them each by name in stained glass; the glass was installed in 1515 but altered in 1847 and restored in 2012. He also placed his standard in the church. He 'received several privileges from the king', including a general pardon for all "riots, illicit retainments and assemblies" committed before 4 Mar 1514. High Sheriff of Lancashire, 1530.

He married 1st, 1502 (settlement 29 August), Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Strickland, kt. of Lonsdale (Cumbld) and 2nd, 19 October 1541, Anne, daughter of Sir James Pickering and widow of Sir Robert Bellingham of Burneside, and had issue:

• (1.1) Richard Assheton (c.1511-50) (q.v.);
• (1.2) Rev. Robert Assheton (b. c.1515); rector of Middleton, 1538-59 and Radcliffe, c.1548-54;
• (1.3) Rev. John Assheton (1524-84); educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1547; BA 1549/50; MA 1553); Fellow of Trinity College, 1551-59; rector of Middleton, 1559-84; married Anne [surname unknown] (d. 1578) and had issue (including Rev. Abdias Assheton (1563-1633) who was rector of Middleton, 1618-33); buried at Middleton, 9 October 1584;
• (1.4) Ralph Assheton; married and had issue;
• (1.5) Thomas Assheton; apparently brought up in the household the Byrons of Newstead (Notts); married and had issue;
• (1.6) Leonard Assheton, of Chelsea (fl. 1549); died without issue;
• (1.7) Mary Assheton (d. 1595); married 1st, [forename unknown] Gouland (d. by 1547) of Offerton and 2nd, 18 July 1547, Sir John Southworth, kt. (1526-95) of Samlesbury Hall (Lancs) by whom she had issue six sons and five daughters; died 3 November 1595 at Samlesbury Hall.

He inherited the Middleton Hall estate from his father in about 1507 and had seisin of the estate in May 1511.

He died 11 January and was buried 14 January 1548/9; an inquisition post mortem was held 29 March 1549.

His first wife's date of death is unknown. His widow survived him but her date of death is unknown.

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Research Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Assheton-55

Some genealogies dispute his father was Richard Assheton, who married Anne or Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Fouleshurst of Crewe (Cheshire), rather he was the son of his grandfather. A deed of 1502 Fouleshurst is given power to appoint feoffees for the marriage settlement of Sir Richard's son, Richard and his wife Anne Strickland implies some relationship between the two families, I've maintained the extra generation.[1]

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ashton-308

Some genealogies insert here an extra generation, of Richard Assheton, who married Anne/Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Fouleshurst of Crewe (Cheshire), but the dates do not really permit this. I can find no evidence of such a marriage, although a deed of 1502 in which Fouleshurst is given power to appoint feoffees for the marriage settlement of Sir Richard's son, Richard and his wife Anne Strickland implies some relationship between the two families.[1]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Assheton_of_Middleton

Richard Ashton married Anne Foulshurst, daughter of Sir Robert Foulshurst of Crewe, their son was Richard Assheton of Middleton who married firstly Anne Strickland, and secondly Anne Lady Bellingham.[7]

The Asshetons of Great Lever, Lancashire were Richard's cousins. Two were members of parliament; Richard Assheton of Whalley and Downham, Lancashire, and his half brother Ralph Assheton of Great Lever at Middleton, who was Member of Parliament for Liverpool in 1553.[8]
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http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2016/05/216-assheton-of-downham-...

From Sir Ralph the Middleton estate passed to his eldest son, Sir Richard Assheton (d. 1507) and grandson, Sir Richard Assheton (c.1482-1549), both of whom were knights in the military service of the Crown. The younger Sir Richard distinguished himself at the Battle of Flodden in 1513, and commemorated his part in that devastating English victory against the Scots through the remodelling of Middleton church and the installation of a window depicting his troop of archers. Both men, however, received royal pardons for civil offences, suggesting they may have inherited some of Sir Ralph's lack of self-control.

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Sir Richard, was knighted and died on 3 Edward VI. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Strickland, of Cumberland, Knight. They had five sons and two daughters:

1. Richard
2. Robert, who was Parson of Middleton, 2 Edward VI
3. John, who had seven sons, Abel, Abdie, Richard, Zachariah, John, James and Thomas
4. Raphe, who had three children, Richard, Edmund and Ellen
5. Thomas, who had five duaghters, Dorothy, Katharine, Anne, Bridget and Mary.

Sir Richard married a second time to Lady Ann Bellingham.

His eldest son Richard, Esq. succeeded him, being 38 years old at the death of his father, and survived him only one year. His Obit was 4 Edward VI.

~History and Description of the Town and Parish of Ashton-Under-Lyne

Provisions were made for his younger sons in the last inquisition. John Ashton was still at Cambridge. Mary the daughter of Sir Richard had married Sir John Southworth [Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. ix, no. 23].

~History of Lancaster, Vol. V, "Middleton," pp. 161-169

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Sir Richard Assheton, the only son and heir, was a distinguished warrior, and received the honor of knighthood for his valiant bearing on the celebrated Field of Flodden, where he took the Scottish standard-bearer's sword, and made Sir John Foreman, the Scots' monarch's serjeant-porter, prisoner. On his return, he dedicated his standard to St. Leonard of Middleton, having several privileges within the said manor allowed him by the king.

He married Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Foulshurst, of Crew, in Cheshire.

Their children were:

1. Richard
2. Thomas
3. Edmund, rector of Middleton
4. Anne, who married George Atherton, of Atherton

~Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, pp. 20-21

Notes

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Assheton_of_Middleton

Flodden and the Flodden windows

Richard raised a company of archers to fight at the battle of Flodden in 1513 from Middleton, near Manchester. An heraldic visitation in 1533 by Clarenceux King of Arms Thomas Benolt noted that Richard had captured the courtier John Forman, sergeant porter to James IV of Scotland and Alexander Burnett, Sheriff of Aberdeen, at Flodden.[2] John Forman was taken to Berwick upon Tweed where he identified the body of James IV of Scotland. Richard continued the rebuilding the parish church of St. Leonard's at Middleton. He commissioned the "Flodden Windows" depicting himself and his wife, and seventeen captains of the archers, and the priest Henry Taylor who blessed them before the battle, commemorating them each by name in stained glass. The windows are one of the oldest war memorials in England, second in date to All Souls College, Oxford, founded in 1438 with the provision that its fellows should pray for those killed in the French wars.[3]

The main inscription on the glass was, as described in 1845; "Orate pro bono statu Richardi Assheton et eorum qui hanc fenestra(m) fieri fecerunt quoru(m) no(m)ina et imagines ut supra ostendatur. Anno d(omi)ni, MCCCCC(X)V", meaning "Pray for the wellbeing of Richard Assheton and those whose names and images they caused to be made in the window shown above, 1515." As there was no "X" in the painted date, it has been argued that the window dates from the decade before Flodden, and commemorates a religious confraternity of archers.[4] The legible names included; Henricus Taylyer, Richard Kylw (or Wyld), Hughe Chetham, James Gerrarde, John Pylkyngton, Philipe Werburton, William (Ste)le, John Scolefede, Wylliam (—), James Taylier, Roger Blomeley, Crystofer Smythe, Henry Whitaker, Robart Prestwyche, and Richard Bexwicke.[5]

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Origins

https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2016/05/216-assheton-of-downham...

Assheton, Sir Richard (d. 1507). Elder son of Sir Ralph Assheton (c.1425-88), kt. and his wife Margaret, daughter of John Barton of Middleton (Lancs). Knighted for his services in the Scottish wars under Lord Strange. He had royal pardon for civil offences, 1487.

He inherited the Middleton Hall estate from his father before 1494. He died 28 April 1507 and was buried at Middleton; an inquisition post mortem was held 15 August 1508

He married, 1480 (agreement 29 July), Isabel (d. 1531), daughter of John Talbot of Salesbury Hall, Ribchester (Lancs), and had issue:

• (1) Sir Richard Assheton (c.1482-1549) (q.v.)*;
• (2) Margaret Assheton; married John Hopwood (fl. 1533) of Hopwood;
• (3) Dorothy Assheton; married Robert Holte (c.1481-1554) of Stubley;
• (4) Alice Assheton (d. 1531); married 1st, 1501 (settlement 9 November), Richard Radclyffe (1454-1502) of Radclyffe Tower; 2nd, 1503 (settlement 28 November), John Lawrence, brother of Sir Thomas Lawrence, kt.; and 3rd, before 1515, Thomas Booth of Hackensall; died 27 March 1531 and was buried at Middleton, where she is commemorated by a brass;
• (5) Elizabeth Assheton (fl. 1514); married, c.1500-01, Robert (c.1481-1513), son of Thurstan Holland esq. of Denton, but had no surviving issue;
• (6) Rev. Edmund Assheton (d. 1522); rector of Middleton; died 22 August 1522;
• (7) Anne Assheton (fl. 1506); married (but div. 1506 on grounds of consanguinity), George Atherton (d. 1518) of Atherton
• Some genealogies insert here an extra generation, of Richard Assheton, who married Anne/Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Fouleshurst of Crewe (Cheshire), but the dates do not really permit this. I can find no evidence of such a marriage, although a deed of 1502 in which Fouleshurst is given power to appoint feoffees for the marriage settlement of Sir Richard's son, Richard and his wife Anne Strickland implies some relationship between the two families.

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References

1. http://cybergata.com/roots/238.htm
2. (216) Assheton of Downham Hall, Whalley Abbey, Great Lever and Middleton Hall, baronets and Barons Clitheroe - part 2 < link >
3. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies pp. 20-21 < GoogleBooks >
4. http://www.geneajourney.com/ashtn.html
5. http://cybergata.com/roots/322.htm
6. Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Page 13. Line 9[39].
7. “World’s Oldest Memorial” “On Saturday it will be almost 500 years since Middleton's brave archers, together with Sir Richard Assheton, helped to defeat the Scottish army in the battle of Flodden. And nearly half a century since such bravery and success was immortalised within the church.”

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