Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar

Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar

Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar (9 July 1584 – 13 August 1639) was born in Staffordshire, England, about 1584, a son of Sir Edward Aston of Tixall and Anne Lucy of Charlecote Park.

At the coronation of King James I of England, Walter was honored with the Order of the Bath. In 1611, he was created a baronet. The event was particularly significant for the Aston family; as descendants of John Aston, minor nobility of the Plantagenet dynasty, they had little standing with the Tudor dynasty which had driven the last Plantagenet, King Richard III, from power when he was slain at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

In 1622, Sir Walter Aston was employed by the crown to negotiate a marriage between Charles, the Prince of Wales, and an Infanta of Spain. For this service, he was elevated to the peerage on November 28 1627, as Lord Aston of Forfar.

Lord Aston married Gertrude, only daughter of Sir Thomas Sadler of Standon. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=DSoEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=%22thomas+sadler%22+standon&source=web&ots=rtm7mwj1ho&sig=Lbx1FMoDgColF5jpTqmJlFbTeaY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result The Visitations of Hertfordshire, Sir Richard St. George, Robert Cooke, John Philipot, Walter Charles, Harleian Society, London, 1886] ] Lord Aston's sister Anne was married to Ambrose Elton, Esq., of Hazle, Herefordshire, an Oxford graduate, JP and High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1618. Thomas Levett of Lichfield, a great-grandson, erected a monument in honor of Ambrose Elton in 1753 in Ledbury Church, Ledbury. Elton Levett of the same family, later of Nottingham, was named for his ancestor Elton. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=rmEBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=%22thomas+levett%22+lichfield&source=web&ots=s-stLqZkQR&sig=KrKV9NiTNzM2lNgJmkG5Ga0oK-A&hl=en#PPA16,M1 A Genealogical Account of the Mayo and Elton Families of Wilts and Hereford, Charles Herbert Mayo, London, 1882] ] Elton Levett's daugher Frances married Hon. George Byron of the Lords Byron of Newstead Abbey. [ [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/History/Barons/barons3.html Byron, Lord Byron, English Peerage 1790, Barons, GENUKI] ]

Walter Aston died in 1639, and was succeeded by his son Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar.

ee also

*Lord Aston of Forfar

References

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*"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"


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