page_title: Aston Cantlow
section_title: Descent of the manor
hierarchical_section_title: Aston Cantlow / History / Descent of the manor
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of "Cantilupe Ancient", Gules, 3 fleurs-de-lys or. Copied from drawing of seal of William I de Cantilupe, printed in Planche, J.R., The Pursuivant of Arms, London, 1873, p.134, with tinctures added as described in 13th. c. rolls of arms. Arms of William I de Cantilupe(d.1239), William II de Cantilupe(d.1251), William III de Cantilupe(d.1254), George de Cantilupe(d.1273), Lord of Abergavenny. From the last quarter of 13th.c. the arms changed to jessant-de-lys, i.e. "Cantilupe Modern", as quartered by Baron Zouche of Harringworth, heir of Cantilupe of Abergavenny, see for example stained glass arms in Farleigh Hungerford Castle (see File:Farleigh Hungerford Castle 2015 38.jpg) .
context_page_description: Aston Cantlow is a village in Warwickshire, England, on the River Alne 5 miles north-west of Stratford and 2 miles north-west of Wilmcote, close to Little Alne, Shelfield, and Newnham. It was the home of Mary Arden, Shakespeare's mother. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,674, being measured again as 437 at the 2011 Census.
context_section_description: Prior to the Norman conquest in 1066, the manor of Aston was held by Earl Ælfgar, son of Earl Leofric who had died in 1057, and the husband of Lady Godiva. Osbern fitzRichard, son of Richard Scrob, builder of Richard's Castle, was the holder in 1086 as the Domesday Book records:
  In Ferncombe Hundred, Osbern son of Richard holds (Estone) Aston from the King. 5 hides. Land for 10 ploughs. 9 Flemings and 16 villagers with a priest and 10 small holders who have 12 ploughs. A mill at 8s and 5 sticks of eels; meadow, 40 acres; woodland 1 league in length and width. The value was 100s now £6. Earl Ælfgar held it.
  Osbern died in 1137 and by 1169 it had passed to William the Chamberlain of Tankervill, who, by an undated grant gave to the Abbey of Winchcombe all the land, in wood and plain, between Alne and his manor of Estone on condition that it should remain uncultivated and that his men should enjoy the same common rights there as they had in the rest of the wood and plain of Alne. He was still holding the manor in 1177 and may have been succeeded by Ralph de Tankervill, who is referred to fifty years later as having formerly possessed it. 
   It ultimately escheated to the Crown and in 1204 King John (1199–1216) granted it to William I de Cantilupe (died 1239), from whose family, which held the manor for four generations in direct descent, the village takes its name. William's family name was added to the name of the manor of Aston, probably to differentiate it from another of the same name, in one of its many anciently-spelled varieties, Cantlow. William I de Cantilupe served King John as Justiciar and Steward of the Household, served several times as Sheriff of Warwickshire, and from 1215 to 1223 was Governor of Kenilworth Castle. He attained the status of a feudal baron, his barony, of which Aston became a member, having its baronial seat or caput at Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire. The family had been conspicuous for several generations, "evil councillors" of King John and his son Henry III, as Matthew Paris recorded, and strong supporters of the Crown against the Barons. On his death in 1239 his son William II de Cantilupe (died 1251) succeeded him both in his estates and as Steward of the Royal Household. Either William II or his son William III de Cantilupe is referred to as holding the manor, valued at £40, by unknown feudal tenure, of the gift of King John. Dugdale notes that the family remained lords of the manor in 1250. William III's younger brother Thomas de Cantilupe (died 1282), who never held the manor, became Bishop of Hereford in 1275 and in 1320 was canonised as St Thomas of Hereford. William III de Cantilupe died in 1254, leaving a three-year-old son George de Cantilupe (died 1273), later Baron Bergavenny, as his heir. During George's minority his wardship, and therefore the custody of the manor, was granted to the Queen of the Romans. On his death in 1273 without children the senior male line of the family died out, his heir being his nephew John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings and Baron Bergavenny (died 1313).
  John Hastings was eventually succeeded by his grandson Laurence de Hastings, who was created Earl of Pembroke in 1339, and the manor descended through his family until it passed for lack of heirs to a cousin, Sir William Beauchamp, who was summoned to Parliament as Baron Bergavenny in 1392. He died having settled it on his widow Joan for her life with reversion to their son and heir Richard and his daughter Elizabeth who married Edward Nevill, fourth son of Ralph, Earl of Westmorland. Richard, who was created Earl of Worcester, died in 1422 and Joan in 1435. 
  The manor thus descended to Edward Nevill, created Baron Bergavenny in 1450, and remained in the family of Nevill, Barons, Earls, and Marquesses of Abergavenny, for over four centuries. In 1874 William, Marquess of Abergavenny, sold it to Thomas Wood and in 1918 it was offered for sale by the Wood trustees. The estate was then broken up among the tenants: the Gild-house, to which the manorial rights attached, was bought by Sir Charles Tertius Mander of 
caption: Early arms of the de Cantilupe family (until circa 1280) Gules, 3 fleurs-de-lys or ("Cantilupe Ancient"), afterwards changed to jessant-de-lys[4]
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