Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Anne Wood
- Aft 1507
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
1. Anne Wood died after 1507. Family/Spouse: Thomas Astley. Thomas (son of Thomas Astley) was born in of Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England; died after 1513. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. John Astley
was born in of Norfolk, England; died about Jul 1595; was buried in All Saints, Maidstone, Kent, England.
- 2. John Astley
Generation: 2
2. John Astley (1.Anne1) was born in of Norfolk, England; died about Jul 1595; was buried in All Saints, Maidstone, Kent, England. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate birth: of Melton Constable, Norfolk, England
- Alternate death: 1 Aug 1596
Notes:
Master of the Jewel House to Elizabeth I. Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.
MP for Chippenham, Cambridgeshire, in 1547, West Looe, Devon, in March 1553, and St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1555.
He was the author of the earliest English book about horsemanship, which gloried in the jawbreaking title The Art of Riding, set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent Horssemen: Wherein also the true use of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the Author of this present worke hath put the same in practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residu of the order of Riding is but vaine. Lastlie is added a short discourse of the Chaine of Cauezzan, the Trench and the Martingale: written by a Gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said Art. London, 1584.John married Katherine Carew about 1545. Katherine (daughter of Edmund Carew and Katherine Huddesfield) was born about 1500; died on 18 Jul 1565 in London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]