Edward Aston (died 1568)

Sir Edward Aston (died 1568) built and resided at Tixall House, Staffordshire. He served four terms as Sheriff of Staffordshire. ^[1]

Biography

Edward Aston was the son and heir of Sir John Aston and Joan, the only child of Sir William Littleton, of Frankley, Worcestershire. ^[2] Aston was knighted by Henry VIII at Calais in November 1532. ^[3]

Sir Edward demolished the old manor house at Tixall and build a large mansion called Tixall House. ^[1] Most of it has been demolished but the gatehouse survives. Sir Edward was Sheriff of Staffordshire in the years 1528, 1534, 1540, and 1556. ^[4]

His tomb is in St Mary's Church, Stafford.

Family

Sir Edward married first Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Vernon. They had no children, and she died in 1525. ^[5]

Sir Edward married secondly Joan (died 15 September 1562), daughter of Sir Thomas Bowles (of Penhow Castle, Monmouthshire), a baron of the Exchequer.

They had several children: ^[2]

• Walter Aston (1530–1589), ^[2] was a Knight of the Shire and Sheriff of Staffordshire.
• Leonard. ^[2]
• Anthony. ^[2]
• Catherine, who married Sir William Gresley, of Drakelow, Derbyshire. ^[2]
• Mary, who married Simon Harcourt, of Stanton Hardcourt, Oxfordshire and an ancestor of the Earl of Harcourt. ^[2]
• Frances, who married Robert Needham, of Shenton, in Leicestershire, an ancestor of Viscount Kilmoney. ^[2]
• Elizabeth, who married —— Lawley of Wenlock, Staffordshire. ^[2]

Notes

1. Brydges 1809, p. 260.
2. Burke 1866, p. 14.
3. John Gough Nichols, Chronicle of Calais (London: Camden Society, 1846), p. 123.
4. Staffordshire Record Society 1912, p. 284.
5. Richardson, Douglas, "Magna Carta Ancestry", pg. 59

References

• Brydges, Sir Egerton (1809), A Biographical Peerage of the Empire of Great Britain in which are Memoirs and Characters of the Most Celebrated Persons of Each Family, vol. 3, John Johnson et al, p.  260
• Burke, Sir Bernard (1866), A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, Harrison, p.  14
• Staffordshire Record Society (1912), "Sheriffs of Staffordshire 1086–1912", Collections for a history of Staffordshire, vol. 12, Kendal, Eng., etc., pp. 272–294