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s. and h. of Sir John Assheton I by his 1st w. Margaret. m. (1) Isabel, gdda. and h. of Sir Richard Kirkby, prob. 2s.1da.; (2); (3) by 1420, Margaret (d. by Apr. 1434), at least 1s. Kntd. 11 Oct. 1399.VCH Lancs. iv. 341-2, 347; Chetham Soc. xcix. 19, 22-23; C1/7/141; DKR, xxxiii. 34; DNB, i. 649, 652. The pedigree given by J. Foster in Lancs. Peds. sub Assheton, is totally unreliable.
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Commr. of array, Lancs. Mar. 1400,DKR, xl. 528. Aug. 1402,Ibid. 531. July 1403, Avranches June 1418, St. Lô July 1418, Avranches Dec. 1418, Mar. 1419, Pont Orson June 1419,Ibid. xl. 713, 714, 720; xlii. 314, 321. Lancs. Mar. 1427; to prevent the spread of treasonous rumours May 1402; make arrests Oct. 1404; ascertain the names of Normans owing homage to Hen. V, Côtentin Mar. 1419; receive homage Apr. 1419, Jan. 1420; suppress brigandage May 1419; levy a tax on sales of alcohol May 1419; repair the fortifications at Coutances Jan. 1421; destroy castles in Lower Normandy Sept. 1421.Ibid. xli. 759; xlii. 315, 317, 318, 355, 407, 433.

J.p. Lancs. 23 Feb. 1404, 17 Dec. 1411, 19 Aug. 1426, Yorks. 20 July 1424–d. Ibid. xxxvii(1), 174; xl. 532; Somerville, Duchy, i. 492.

Capt. of Puits c. 1417; seneschal of Bayeux 20 Sept. 1417 – 14 Mar. 1418; capt. of Coutances and Carentan and bailiff of the Côtentin 14 Mar. 1418-aft. Sept. 1421.R.A. Newhall, Eng. Conquest Normandy, 93, 159, 216; Rot. Gasc. et Franc. ed. Carte, i. 257; J.H. Wylie, Hen. V, iii. 64; Gesta Hen. V ed. Williams, 276; DKR, xlii. 433.

Ambassador to redress infractions of the truce between England and John V, duke of Brittany 17 Apr. – 7 Aug. 1418; treat with the Bretons 7 July 1420; conserve the truce with Brittany 10 Feb.-26 Mar. 1421.DKR, xli. 688; xlii. 375, 401, 412.

Chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster estates in Lancs. and Cheshire 9 July 1425–d. Somerville, i. 492.

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ASSHETON, Sir John II (d.1428), of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs.
Main residence: Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs.
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ASSHETON, Sir John II (-d.1428)

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