Thomas de Astley

• Preferred Name: Thomas de Astley
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 9 MAR 1220 in Warwickshire, England at LATI: N2.3378 LONG: E1.5609
  
• FSID: LVP7-Y2Q
  
• Birth: 1153 in Astley, Warwickshire, England at LATI: N2.5013 LONG: E1.543 with note: Place
  
• NFS ID: with note: Description: LH52-GFL NFS
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Thomas De Astley in 1210 paid a hundred marks to the crown to be excused from going beyond the sea. Afterward he took up arms against King John, was taken prisoner and his estates confiscated. Later his estates were restored by Henry III. He married Maud, sister of Roger de Camvill.
  
  THOMAS DE ASTLEY
  Of Astley, son of Philip, held certain lands of "Honour of Leicester" and became a kind of baili Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester.
  
  In 1210 this Thomas paid a hundred marks to the crown, "to be excused from going beyond the sea," it is supposed in a military expedition into Ireland a few years later he took up arms against the king. In 1215 he was made a prisoner in Bedford Castle and his estates were confiscated by the crown. When Henry I came to the throne his territorial possessions were restore to him in 1216, and he returned to his allegian to the king.
  
  Thomas Astley
  Thomas Astley-Harleian Society Visitations of Essex Gen Lib No 1 B page 541
  
  Sir thomas Astley-Knight temp, King John
  In the year 1211 he paid 100 marks to the Crown to be excused from going beyond
  
  === This Thomas was s. and h. of Walter A., ===
  This Thomas was s. and h. of Walter A., who was s. and h. of Thomas A. (who by his wife Maud, sister and h. of Roger Camville of Creek [1210] had much increased the familiy estates), s. and h. of Philip A., lord of Astley, co. Warwick, in 1165. [Complete Peerage]

• m. 1183 in Crick, Northamptonshire, England

1. Walter de Astley, b. 1184 in Astley, Warwickshire, England     d. 1240 in Astley, Warwickshire, England

1. Walter de Astley, b. 1184 in Astley, Warwickshire, England     d. 1240 in Astley, Warwickshire, England
2. Philip de Astley, b. 1122 in Astley, Warwickshire, England     d. 1189