Joyce (Freville) Aston (abt. 1395 - bef. 1418)

Born about 1395 in England

Ancestors

Wife of Roger Aston — married before 1414 in England

Descendants

Died before 1418 before about age 23 in England

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Biography

Joyce Freville was the daughter of Baldwin Freville, Knt., of Tamworth, Worcestershire, and Maud le Scrope,^[1][2] (Baldwin's second wife).^[3] Her parents were married before 1394 and her father died in 1400,^[3] so Joyce was likely born during that period.

Joyce married Sir Roger Aston, son and heir of Sir Thomas de Aston^[4] and Elizabeth Leigh.^[1] They had one son and one daughter:

• Robert, Knt.,^[4] born about 1414, died 1464, married Isabel Brereton and had issue^[1]
• Joan, married Roger Draycot, Knt.^[1][4]

Joyce died before 1418. Roger remarried to Elizabeth Meynill and had no issue with her. He died in 1447.^[1]

Joyce's father died in 1400 and her only brother, Baldwin, died in 1418 without issue. Her brother's Inquisitions Post Mortem record as as deceased in 1418.^[5] The Freville estates were divided among Baldwin's sisters, Margaret and Elizabeth and Joyce's son, Robert, who received a portion of the manor of Middleton, among other properties.^[6][7] Robert proved his age in 1436 and the Freville lands were partitioned.^[8] Robert inherited Ashtead and held a court there as lord of the manor in 1442, and died seised of the manor in 1464/5.^[9]

Research Notes

Unsourced Son

Thomas Aston was detached as a son to Joyce and Roger Aston as no source has been found to connect them. Lewis names Thomas as a son, but cites no source. Richardson does not mention a son Thomas.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), vol. I, page 175 ASTON 12.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed., 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, vol. I, page 57, ASTON 9.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Richardson, Royal Ancestry. Vol. III, page 39, FREVILLE 11.ii.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} The Visitacion of Staffordschire Made by Robert Glover ...1583. (1883). Online at Google Books, page 37: Aston of Tixall.
5. ↑ Inquisitions Post Mortem for her brother Baldwin in 1418, Mapping the Medieval Countryside website (University of Winchester and King's College, London), accessed 13 June 2022
6. ↑ 'Parishes: Middleton', in A History of the County of Warwick. Volume 4, Hemlingford Hundred, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1947), pp. 156-160. British History Online, accessed 28 May 2021.
7. ↑ 'Parishes: Newdigate', in A History of the County of Surrey. Volume 3, ed. H E Malden (London, 1911), pp. 310-315. British History Online, accessed 28 May 2021.
8. ↑ 'Close Rolls, Henry VI: November 1436', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI. Volume 3, 1435-1441, ed. A E Stamp (London, 1937), pp. 75-81. British History Online, accessed 28 May 2021: 20 Sep 1436.
9. ↑ 'Parishes: Ashtead', in A History of the County of Surrey. Volume 3, ed. H E Malden (London, 1911), pp. 247-252. British History Online, accessed 28 May 2021.

See also

• 'Yatesbury', in A History of the County of Wiltshire. Volume 17, Calne, ed. D A Crowley (London, 2002), pp. 172-181. British History Online.
• Lewis, Marlyn. Joyce Freville entry in Our Royal Titled Noble and Commoner Ancestors website.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project on 27 May 2021 by Thiessen-117 and approved for the project by Michael Cayley on 29 May 2021.

Joyce (Freville) Aston appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Lieut. Col. Walter Aston to Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert FitzWalter (vol. I, pages 57-64 ASTON). This trail was badged for the Magna Carta Project on 5 June 2021. See the Magna Carta Trails on the Gateway's profile to view the profiles in that trail.

Joyce (Freville) Aston was also identified by the Magna Carta Project as being in a trail between Gateway Ancestor Mary Wolseley and Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Ros that was badged in June 2022. This trail has been set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".