John de Aston (knight banneret)

[4][2] Sir John was with Henry VIII in the Anglo-French War of 1513,[5] and was made a knight banneret for his conduct at the Battle of the Spurs.

[2][6] Maitland in his History of London records a charitable association, of which Sir John Aston was one of the members and founders: There was a very noble Guild, or fraternity, founded in the church of St. Catherine's Hospital, in honor of St. Barbara.

[8] On the top of the monument are the figures of Sir John habited as a knight in complete armour, and his lady lying by him, their hands joined, and elevated in a praying posture, with appropriate emblems of valour and virtue, at the head and feet.

Round the verge is this inscription:[9] Hic jacent corpora Domini Johannis Aston Militis, et Domimæ Johannæ Aston, uxoris ejus, qui quidem Dominus Johannes obiit decimo octavo die Mensis Maii, Anno Domini 1523.

Through this marriage the manor of Tixall also came to the Aston family, having been purchased by Sir Thomas Littleton from the heiress Rosede Wasteneys.

Arms of Ashton/Aston of Tixhall, Staffordshire: Argent, a fess and in chief three lozenges in fess sable [ 1 ]
Arms of Elyn Aston, [ 10 ] a daughter of Sir John Aston, impaled by those of her husband John Morgan (d.1535) of Mapperton Hall, Dorset. Stained Glass, All Saints Church, Mapperton. In the second quarter of the female half are the arms of Lyttleton, followed by quarterings of Lyttleton