Sir Roger Aston, Constable of the Tower of London

Sir Thomas' son, Sir Roger, rose to become constable of the Tower of London, combining his duties, as was the family tradition, with those of a shire knight, local administrator and servant of the house of Stafford.19

Biography

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Father Sir Thomas de Aston d. c 1412

Sir Roger Aston, Sheriff of Staffordshire, Constable of the Tower of London, Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire married Joyce Freville, daughter of Sir Baldwin IV Freville and Maud le Scrope, circa 1410; His 1st marriage; they had 1 son (Sir Robert) and 1 daughter (Joan, wife of Sir Roger Draycot).[1]

Sir Roger Aston, Sheriff of Staffordshire, Constable of the Tower of London, Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire married Elizabeth Meinill, daughter of Sir Ralph de Meinhill and Joan, before 17 November 1424; No issue. She married (1) William Crawshaw.[2]

Sir Roger Aston, Sheriff of Staffordshire, Constable of the Tower of London, Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire died in 1447 at of Haywood in Colwich, Tixall, Brocton in Baswich, & Park Hall in Leigh, Staffordshire, England.[3]

Family 1

Joyce Freville d. b 1418

Children

1. Sir Robert Aston, Sheriff of Staffordshire b. c 1414, d. 1464
2. Joan, wife of Sir Roger Draycot

Family 2

Elizabeth Meinill (no issue)

Mother

The History of Parliament website, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/as..., shows the wife of Sir Thomas Aston as being Elizabeth Cloddeshall , widow of Sir William Devereux† (d.c.1384); married Thomas Aston by October 1385.

The publication, "Staffordshire Members of Parliament" (p. 128) describes Thomas's wife as Elizabeth Cloddeshall, when in 1360 and 1388 they were involved and pardoned in a murder, and then in 1397 and 1410 he is found married to the widow of Sir William Devereaux, and later writing describes Thomas's wife Elizabeth as the "sister and coheiress of Reynold de Leigh.

References

1. Ref Volumes: 1386-1421 Author: C.R. Notes Variants: (de) Assheton, Ashton, Ayston. 1.Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xiv. 229; Staffs. Parl. Hist. i (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), 87, 128; CIMisc. iv. no. 356; CPR, 1385-9, p. 45; CCR, 1385-9, p. 410. 2.CPR, 1408-13, p. 71. 3. Staffs. RO, D.641/1/2/43. 4.Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xii. 257; xiii. 85. 5. Ibid. xiv. 229, 234; C136/107. 6.Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xv. 35; CIPM, xv. nos. 964, 965, 969; xvi. 974; CAD, v. A11357, 11372, 11388; CPR, 1391-6, p. 57; CCR, 1389-92, p. 238; 1402-5, pp. 37-38. 7. PRO List ‘Sheriffs’, 60; CCR, 1385-9, p. 325. 8.CIMisc. iv. no. 356; CCR, 1385-9, pp. 410, 533; 1396-9, p. 400; CPR, 1385-9, pp. 45, 435. 9.Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xvi. 75. 10. Ibid. xv. 30-31, 41; xvi. 81; VCH Staffs. v. 6; xvii. 228. 11.CPR, 1385-9, p. 285; VCH Staffs. iii. 276. 12.VCH Staffs. xvii. 228; Keele Univ. Lib. Sneyd mss. 1049-50; CPR, 1388-92, p. 370; 1396-9, p. 32; 1401-5, pp. 350, 420; CPL, v. 52, 61, 125. 13. DL 42/15 ff. 70-71d; C67/30 m. 24. 14. SC 10/42/2094, 43/2123. 15.Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xv. 76; xvi. 70; DKR, xxxvi. 7. 16.Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xiv. 157; xvi. 89. 17. Ibid. xvi. 57; CCR, 1409-13, p. 228; JUST 1/1504 m. 86, 1515 mm. 12, 13d. 18.CCR, 1409-13, p. 400. 19.Staffs. Parl. Hist. i. 204-5; Staffs RO, D.641/1/2/9 m. 3.
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