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 ASTLEY COMPLETE PEERAGE 283 ASPALL i.e. " Kitchener of Khartoum and of Aspall, " Suffolk, Barony {Kitchener), cr. 1898, see " Kitchener " Viscountcy, a: 1902. i.e. " Kitchener of Khartoum the Vaal and of Aspall, " Suffolk, Viscountcy {Kitchener), cr. 1902, which see. ASTLEY or ESTLEIGH BARONY. I. Andrew of Astley, (") of Astley and Bentley, co. . Warwick, s. and h. of Sir Thomas of A., of the same, (^) • 1^95' by his 1st wife, Joan, da. of Ernald du Bois, of co. Lei- cester, sue. his father (who was slain at Evesham) 4 Aug. 1265, and was by the composition called the dictum de Kenilworth, on payment of a fine, put into possession of his father's estates, which had been confiscated. He was in the Scottish wars and at the Battle of Falkirk. He m. Sibyl. He was sum. to attend the King at Shrewsbury 28 June (1283) 1 1 Edw. I (") by writ directed Andree de Estleye. From 24 June (1295) 23 Edw. I, to 3 Nov. (1306) 34 Edw. I, he was sum. to Pari, by writs directed Andree de EstlegK, whereby he may be held to have become LORD ASTLEY. O He d. however shortly before 18 Jan. (i 300/1) 29 Edw. I, (') so that the later summons must have been in error. II. 1301. 2. Nicholas of Astley, s. and h., aged 24 at his father's death. He was sum. to Pari. 4 July (1302) 30 Edw. I, II June (1309) 2 Edw. II, and 26 Oct. (1309) 2 Edw. II. He was taken prisoner, not as some say, slain, at Bannockburn in 13 14. He d. s.p., 1325. III. 1325. 3. Thomas of Astley, nephew and h., being s. and h. of Sir Giles of A. {d. before 1 3 1 6), br. of the last Lord, by Alice, (living 1344-5), (^ 2nd da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Wolvey. He had seizin 27 Mar. 1326, having proved his age. He was sum. to Pari, from 25 Feb. (1342/3) 17 Edw. Ill, to 10 Mar. (1349/50) 23 Edw. III. He founded a chantry in the parish church of Astley. He m., before {^) Astley of Astley in Warwickshire bore arms of Azure with a cinqfoil ermine, {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. (*) 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 [12 10] had much increased the family estates), s. and h. of Philip A., lord of Astley, co. Warwick, in 1165. (') As to this and other supposed Paris, see Preface. (*) As to how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any Peerage title, see last vol., Appendix A. V.G. (') Inq. p. m., 29 Edw. I, no. 155. (*) An undated deed gives the names of 5 younger children of Thomas {Ancient D«rff, vol. V, A. 12138.) V.G.