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Giles Astley

Also Known As: "Giles de Astley"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wolvey, Warwickshire, England, (Present UK)
Death: 1427 (75-85)
Dunstable Priory, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, (Present UK)
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas of Astley, 3rd Lord Astley and Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Baroness Astley
Brother of William Astley, 4th Baron Astley; Thomas Astley and Alice Champernown

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About Giles Astley

  • 'Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=wHZcIRMhSEMC&pg=PA379&lpg=PA379&dq...
  • 6. ELIZABETH DE BEAUCHAMP, married before 1336/7 (as his 2nd wife) THOMAS DE ASTLEY (or ASTELEY), Knt., of Astley, Bentley, and Weddington, Warwickshire, Broughton, Leicestershire, and Crick, Northamptonshire, son and heir of Giles de Astley, Knt., by Alice, 2nd daughter and co-heiress of Thomas de Wolvey, Knt., of Wolvey, Warwickshire. He was born in or before 1305. They had three sons, William, Knt., Thomas, Knt., and 'Giles'. He was married previously to MARGARET ___, who was living 15 Jul 1334. They had no known issue. He was heir in 1325 to his uncle, Nicholas de Astley, 2nd Lord Astley. In 1338 he founded a chantry in Astley, Warwickshire, which, in 1343, he had sanction to change into a collegiate church. He was summoned to Parliament from 25 Feb. 1342/3 to 10 Mar 1349/50. SIR THOMAS DE ASTLEY, 3rd Lord Astley, was living 3 May 1366.
    • 7. THOMAS DE ASTLEY, Knt., of Hillmorton, Warwickshire, and, in right of his wife, of Braunstone (in Glenfield and Little Stretton, Leicestershire, younger son. He married before 13 Dec. 1369 ELIZABETH DE HARCOURT, daughter and heiress of Richard de Harcourt, Knt., of Ellenhall, Staffordshire, by Joan, daughter of William de Shareshull, Knt., Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Chief Baron of the Exchequer [see HARCOURT 6.i. for her ancestry]. She was born about 1347/9 (aged 22 in 1369 and 21 in 1370). They had two sons, Thomas, Esq., and John, and one daughter, Elizabeth, wife of John Clay, Knt. They were involved in a protracted series of lawsuits regarding the manor of Ellenhall, the reversion of which was awarded to them. His wife, Elizabeth, was living in 1383-84. SIR THOMAS DE ASTLEY died in 1399.
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  • Sir Thomas Astley, 3rd Lord Astley1,2,3,4,5
  • M, b. circa 1305, d. after 21 July 1381
  • Father Sir Giles de Astley2,3 d. b 1316
  • Mother Alice de Wolvey2,3 d. a 1345
  • Sir Thomas Astley, 3rd Lord Astley was born circa 1305 at of Astley, Bentley, Wolvey, & Weddington, Warwickshire, England.2,3 He married Elizabeth Beauchamp, daughter of Sir Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, Sheriff of Worcestershire and Alice de Tony, before 1337; They had 3 sons (Sir William, Sir Thomas, & 'Giles') & 1 daughter, Alice. Thomas, 3rd Lord Astley married (1) Margaret, but they apparently had no children.2,6,3,4 Sir Thomas Astley, 3rd Lord Astley died after 21 July 1381.3
  • Family Elizabeth Beauchamp b. 1313
  • Children
    • Alice de Astley+3,7,5 d. b 13 Aug 1394
    • Sir William Astley, 4th Baron Astley, Justice of the Peace for Warwickshire+3 b. b 1345, d. 1420
    • Sir Thomas de Astley+8,3 b. c 1346, d. 1399
  • Citations
  • 1.[S8720] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. I, p. 283/4; Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 651; Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists, by F. L. Weis, p. 59; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 80.
  • 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 45.
  • 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 53-54.
  • 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 140.
  • 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 29.
  • 6.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 713-715.
  • 7.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 411.
  • 8.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 45-46.
  • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p930.htm#i...
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Giles Astley's Timeline

1347
1347
Wolvey, Warwickshire, England, (Present UK)
1427
1427
Age 80
Dunstable Priory, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, (Present UK)
1936
December 7, 1936
Age 80
1937
January 20, 1937
Age 80
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