Ancestral Trails 2016 » Ralph ASHTON (1421-1486)

Persoonlijke gegevens Ralph ASHTON 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1421 in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire.
• Hij is overleden op 14 april 1486 in Middleton, Winwick, Lancashire, hij was toen 65 jaar oud.
• Een kind van John ASHTON en Jane SAVILLE

Gezin van Ralph ASHTON

Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth CHICHELEY.

Zij zijn getrouwd voor 1486.

Notities over Ralph ASHTON

Sir Ralph de Assheton (or Aston) was the son of Sir John de Assheton and either Margaret Byron da. of Sir John Byron of Clayton, Lancs or Margaret Grey. His half-brother Sir Thomas Ashton arranged his first marriage. He m. (1) Margaret Barton, dau. of John Barton of Middleton and Elizabeth Chichele, dau. of John Chicheleof Wimpole and the widow of John Kyriel of Stockbury, Westenhanger (Kent).

His 1st wife Margaret was the heiress of the Bartons of Middleton and the Ashton family held the lordship of the manor of Middleton until the 18th century. Ralph was Knight Marshal of England and went by the nickname of ‘The Black Knight of Ashton'. Sheriff of York from 1473 to 1474. He was invested as a Knight Banneret in 1482. He held the office of Vice-Constable of England in 1483. On 6 June 1486 he was pardoned by King Henry VII for supporting King Richard III.

The effigy of the Black Knight is still paraded through the town of Ashton on Easter Monday, and he passed into folklore which 19th-cent. antiquaries recorded the rhyme:

Sweet Jesu, for thy mercy sake
And for thy bitter passion
Save us from the axe of the Tower
And from Sir Ralph of Ashton.

Children of Sir Ralph Assheton and Margaret Barton
Sir Richard Assheton (d. 1507) - heir, of Middleton
Sir Ralph Assheton (fl. 1501), kt. - the ancestor of the Assheton family of Great Lever
John Assheton (fl. 1501);
Roger Assheton (fl. 1501);
Edmund Assheton (fl. 1484).

Sir Ralph Assheton married Elizabeth Chicheley, daughter of John Chicheley, Chamberlain of London and Margery Knollys, before 1486.(No Issue)

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