b 1518 ?
Survived her husband 14 years, leaving a will dated 12 Feb 1572/73
Ellen Aston was born say 1515.1 She married Robert Lothrope, son of John Lowthrop. Ellen Aston died in March 1572 in Cherry Burton, Yorkshire, England.1 She was buried on 8 March 1572 in Cherry Burton.
Child of Ellen Aston and Robert Lothrope: Thomas Lothropp b. 19 Jun 1536, d. 9 Oct 1606
Citations: [S251] Helene Holt, Exiled, The Story of John Lathrop (Provo, Utah: Maasai Publishing, 1987), ISBN: 1-889025-05-4, page 293.
children:
John of Ashtede, b. circa 1471; d. on 8 May 1523 in . (Sir John)
Elizabeth of Ashtede, b. circa 1470.
Isabel of Ashtede, b. circa 1472.
Catherine of Ashtede, b. circa 1474.
Richard of Whorcross, Staffordshire, England, b. circa 1476.
Margaret of Ashtede, b. circa 1478.
Robert of Ashtede, b. circa 1484.
Alice of Ashtede, b. circa 1488.
Rose of Ashtede, b. circa 1490.
Thomas Aston, b. circa 1490; m. Mrs. Thomas Aston circa 1508 in York (east),
England
Three more daughters born 1480, 1482, 1486
Per the Visitation of Stafforshire 1583, John and Elizabeth's children were Elizabeth (m Bassett), Isabella (m Okeover) and John (d 1523) m Johanna Littleton)
Roger fought in the Battle of Agincourt
A reference to Roger Aston, born circa 1380 states he joined the retinue of the Earl of Stafford circa 1400. After the Earl's death he became Constable of the Tower of London 1420-46.
According to the Visitation of Staffordshire 1583, on the Aston of Tirall page (page 37 amd 38) which also describes the arms and crest, Rogerus de Aston (85 E 3) had son Thomas de Aston, "filius et haeres" who had a son Rogerus "obijt who married Jososa, filia et cohaeres Baldwini Frevill, militis, nxoir p'ma." This Roger had a "Robertns Aston, miles de Haywood, et de Parkhall in Com, Stafford," who married a "Johanna, soror Will'mi Brereton, militis." Robert's son Johannes Ason "obijt 1483" married Elizabetha, "filia Johnnia Delves, militis." Their son was "Robertus Aston, 3 filius."
The marriage of Joyce Freville (daughter of Baldwin Freville III and his 2nd wife, Maud)
to Sir Roger Aston, d. 1446/7, Tixall, co. Stafford......is outlined in "The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215", by Frederick Lewis Weis, 5th ed., Line 101A on pp. 134-135.
Children:
Robert of Park Hall, of Ashtede, b. circa 1418.
Joan of Ashtede, b. circa 1402.
Robert of Ashtede, b. circa 1415; m. Isabel Johanna Brereton
Athanagild (d. 567) was a king of Visigothic Hispania (today, Spain and Portugal).
With the help of a Roman force, including a fleet to watch the coasts, sent from Gaul in 551 by the emperor of the eastern Roman empire, Justinian, Athanagild defeated and killed his predecessor, King Agila, near Seville in 554. Athanagild then became king.
But the ports and coastal fortifications taken in the name of Athanagild weren't swiftly turned over by his Byzantine allies. Athanagild was able to recover a few cities but was forced to cede a large portion of Hispania Baetica (Andalusia) to a Byzantine governor of high standing but advanced years named Liberius. Liberius set about enlarging the gift.
Athanagild then endeavoured to drive his Roman allies out of Iberia but was unsuccessful. He had invited the establishment of a Byzantine enclave in the south that would last for a further seventy years. It seems clear that the Roman population of Baetica was solidly behind this orthodox patrician Roman governor.
There are few details about this far western extension of Byzantine power, which is overlooked by Justinian's historians Procopius and Agathius. It straddled the Straits of Gades and included major cities: New Carthage (Cartagena), Corduba (Córdoba), and Assionia.
Although throughout his rule he had to fight the Byzantines, the Franks, and the Suevi, and was harassed in the Pyrenees by the Basques, Athanagild strengthened his kingdom internally by conciliating the Catholics, whom his Arian predecessors had oppressed. When the king of the Suevi declared for Catholic Christianity about 560, Athanagild and the Visigothic nobility found themselves isolated in their Arianism.
Athanagild's court at the city he founded, Toledo, was famed for its splendor. His queen was Goiswintha, who gave him two daughters: Brunhilda and the tragically murdered Galswintha, who married the Frankish brother-kings Sigebert of Austrasia and Chilperic, king of the Neustrian Franks, who set aside his first wife in favor of Galswintha, then had her strangled.
Athanagild died peacefully in his bed, a fact his chronicler didn't overlook, and was succeeded by his brothers Liuva I and the powerful restorer of Visigothic unity, Liuvigild, last of the Arian Visigoths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanagild