Thomas de Ashton II

• Preferred Name: Thomas de Ashton II
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: G39M-5W7
  
• Death: 1386 in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.4877 LONG: E2.0969 with note: Date
  
• Birth: ABT 1321 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.4877 LONG: E2.0969 with note: The birth dates are very difficult to work out with all these differences
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  The Ashton or Assheton (as the name came to be spelled) family are one of the most important and oldest gentry families of central Lancashire. They take their name from Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester, where they are recorded as holding the manor from the 12th century onwards. It descended to Sir John de Assheton (d. 1427), a knight who fought at Agincourt and was employed as an administrator in France in his later years. His eldest son, Sir Thomas Assheton (c.1403-60), who inherited the Ashton-under-Lyne estate, was bred up as a knight but had very different interests, and in 1446 was given a licence to practice alchemy. His descendants held Ashton until the early 16th century, when it passed to the Booth family by marriage.
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  Please note: dates from the records corroborate the people, not in most parts the years of birth; with the help of sources it is better to have the persons relevant in the right order, but not always the exact years, which is most fortunate for us that we had people who digitised these persons!
  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Assheton-2
  Thomas de Ashton formerly Ashton
  Born about 1300 [location unknown]
  Son of Robert (Assheton) de Assheton and Elizabeth (Unknown) de Assheton
  [sibling(s) unknown]
  Husband of Eleanor (Bumbley) Ashton — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
  DESCENDANTS:
  Father of John (Ashton) Assheton
  Died after 1346 [location unknown]
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  Thomas (Ashton) de Ashton (abt. 1300 - aft. 1346-1386)(My Note: I have elongated the date as 1386 is on the source at this moment and I feel 'Wiki' have used his battle as a starting 'benchmark'.
  
  Thomas de Ashton (fl. 1346), was an English warrior. [1]
  
  Ashton was the son and heir of Sir Robert de Ashton, and it is remarkable that, although the chief recorded event of his life shows him to have been a man of conspicuous military courage, he does not appear to have received the honour of knighthood, or to have been employed in any of the offices in which his father had distinguished himself.
  
  Whilst Edward III was fighting in France, David II of Scotland, entered Northumberland with a force estimated at 50,000 men, and wasted and pillaged the country as far as Durham. Queen Philippa, the heroic wife of Edward III, marched against the invaders with a force of about 12,000, whom she encouraged to the unequal conflict.
  
  The Battle of Neville's Cross Battle was joined at Neville's Cross, near Durham, 17 Oct. 1346, and the result was a decisive victory for the English. Thomas de Ashton, who fought under Lord Neville, captured the royal standard of Scotland.
  
  Shortly after King David was made prisoner by John de Coupland, variously described as a Lancashire esquire and as a Northumberland gentleman, who was knighted when the king returned from France, but Ashton was still an esquire when, in 1385, he formed one of the retinue of John of Gaunt in his expedition to Spain.
  
  William de Ashton, doctor of laws, who was also with 'the serene prince, Lord John, king of Castile and León,' was his uncle.
  
  === Relationship to N. G. Utting note ===
  Twentieth Great Grandfather : Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather

• m. in England

1. John de Ashton II, b. 1340 in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England     d. 1403 in Norham, Northumberland, England