Sir
Robert
Aston
Born about in England
Ancestors 
Son of Roger Aston
and Joyce (Freville) Aston
Husband of
Isabel (Brereton) Aston
— married
about 1436 in England
Descendants 
Father of
Margaret (Aston) Wolseley and John Aston Esq
Died
at about age 50
in England
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Biography
Robert Aston, Knt., son and heir of Roger Aston, Knt., and Joyce Freville,[1] daughter of Baldwin Freville, Knt. of Tamworth, Warwickshire, was born about 1414 (aged 4 in 1418, 6 in 1420).[2][3]
In 1418, he was co-heir of his uncle, Sir Baldwin Freville, inheriting manors in Warwickshire, Surrey and Wiltshire. He was Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1452-1453 and had lands in Haywood, Park Hill and Brocton, Staffordshire.[2]
He married Isabel Brereton, daughter of William Brereton and Alice Corbet.[2] They had at least two sons and two daughters:
- John, Esq.[1][2]
- Richard[2]
- Isabel, married Richard Bagot, Esq.[1][2] (see discussion in comments and research note below)
- Pernel, married Richard Biddulph, Esq.[1][2]
- Margaret, married Robet Kinnersly and Ralph Wolseley (not named by Richardson)[4][5]
Sir Robert Aston died in 1464.[2]
Research Notes
Possible Duplicates
- Possible duplicate profiles of Robert and Isabel in Robert Aston and Isabel (Beeston) Aston. More research needed.
Daughter Isabel
- A possible daughter Isabel, shown in the Visitation and in Richardson, appears to have been born before 1420, and has therefore been detached and reattached as a sister, daughter of Roger Aston, as appears from a marriage record in 1427.[6]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Visitacion of Staffordschire Made by Robert Glover ...1583. (1883). Online at Google Books, pages 37-38.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed., 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, vol. I, pages 57-58, ASTON 10.
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), vol. I, page 176, ASTON 13.
- ↑ See online discussion at soc.genealogy.medieval.
- ↑ 2014 SGM post by Charlie McNett titled "Col. Gerard Fowke".
- ↑ Ian Douglas Rowney. The Staffordshire Political Community 1440-1500, Vol. II. PhD Thesis submitted to the University of Keele, 1981. Page 450. https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/5853/2/RowneyPhD1981Vol2.pdf . Citing the marriage of Richard, son of John Bagot and Isabel, daughter of Roger Aston on 19 January 1427, recorded in the register of Bishop Heyworth in Lichfield Joint Record Office, B/A/1/9 fo. 156v.
- Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
- Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.
- See also:
- Lewis, Marlyn. Sir Robert Aston, Sheriff of Staffordshire, entry in Our Royal Titled Noble and Commoner Ancestors website, accessed 27 Feb 2020.
Acknowledgements
Magna Carta Project
- This profile was reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 18:51, 27 February 2020 (UTC).
- Robert Aston appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Lieut. Col. Walter Aston to Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert FitzWalter (vol. I, pages 57-64 ASTON). This trail was badged for the Magna Carta Project on 5 June 2021. See the Magna Carta Trails on the Gateway's profile to view the profiles in that trail.
- Robert Aston was also identified by the Magna Carta Project as being in a trail between Gateway Ancestor Mary Wolseley and Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Ros that was badged in June 2022. This trail has been set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.
- See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
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I doubt there would be a parish register going back this far. Parish registers were not formally introduced until the 1530s. I suspect Ian Douglas Rowney, author of the PhD thesis, may have made a mistake.
The birth date of Isabel's son John Bagot is unsourced and presumably it may be wrong, and John Bagot's marriage date is also unsourced. The ODNB entry for the Bagot family gives a rough birth date of about 1461 for Isabel's grandson Lewis but with no indication of why, and much of the information on Lewis's profile lacks a good source. So the way to try and resolve this is probably to start by seeing if any firmer evidence can be found for the dates of Isabel's son John and grandson Lewis, and then work back from there. I note in passing that WikiTree currently shows Lewis’s oldest child as born in 1485, and there seems to be no good source yet for his marriage dates.
Marriage in the early teens (or younger) was not that unusual in this period, nor was it that unusual for a female to have her first child in her mid-teens.
As far as this profile is concerned, there is nothing as yet to call seriously into question the sources which indicate that Robert Aston had a daughter Isabel who married Richard Bagot. Research should probably, as I say, focus initially on Isabel's son John and grandson Lewis.
edited by Michael Cayley
edited by Stephen Heathcote
1. There is a chronology that makes it unlikely if not impossible. 2. There is the fact that the exact same error and argument is made for her sister Margaret. 3. We know from her tomb that apparently her LNAB was Aston, and her parentage was simply a bad guess. 4. Now we have a Bishops record which directly states she is a daughter of Roger Aston.
So, yes all of the ancient pedigrees and Richardson who followed them are wrong in this case.
I just realized the Bishop Heyworth's Register says more than we have Isabel's parentage is wrong. The pedigrees have her married to the wrong Richard Bagot. She married Richard Bagot, son of John Bagot on 19 June 1427; she did not marry his son Richard son of Richard Bagot.
"Note- The marriage of Richard, son of John Bagot and Isabel, daughter of Roger Aston on 19 January 1427 is recorded in the register of Bishop Heyworth in Lichfield Joint Record Office, B/A/1/9fo.156v. This is important because Isabel is usually thought of as the wife of Richard II; they were about the same age."
edited by Joe Cochoit
edited by Michael Cayley
- to detach Isabel as daughter of Robert and attach her to Roger, adding explanatory notes to the relevant profiles
- to add to her profile something referring to what the PhD thesis says about which Richard was her husband, and saying that this needs further research, but
- not to change which Richard is her husband at this stage
I hope that makes sense!
I have looked to see if Bishop William Heyworth's register is viewable on the web but could not find it. I suspect neither it nor a transcript of it has been digitised.