Aylesbury Family History & Genealogy

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Aylesbury History
Origins Available: England
Early Origins of the Aylesbury family
The surname Aylesbury was first found in Buckinghamshire at Aylesbury, a borough, market-town, parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Aylesbury. "This place appears to have been one of the strongholds of the ancient Britons, from whom it was taken in the year 571 by Cutwulph, brother of Ceawlin, King of the West Saxons; and to have had a castle of some importance, from which circumstance probably it derives its Saxon appellation Aeglesburge. In the reign of the Conqueror it was a royal manor. By the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, the place name was listed as Eilesberia and literally meant "stronghold or a man called Aegel. As far as the surname is concerned, the first record of the surname was found in 1188 when Richard of Aylesbury of Eynsham held estates in this shire.

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Spellings & Pronunciations

Alsbury, Alisbury, Ellsbury, Allsberry.

Nationality & Ethnicity

The place name is first recorded as Aegelesburg in the Anglo-Saxon chronicles of the year 571 a.d., making it one of the earliest known recorded places in England. This was absolutely at the very dawn of written records, there are few indeed which predate this one.

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Aylesbury History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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Early Origins of the Aylesbury family
The surname Aylesbury was first found in Buckinghamshire at Aylesbury, a borough, market-town, parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Aylesbury. "This place appears to have been one of the strongholds of the ancient Britons, from whom it was taken in the year 571 by Cutwulph, brother of Ceawlin, King of the West Saxons; and to have had a castle of some importance, from which circumstance probably it derives its Saxon appellation Aeglesburge. In the reign of the Conqueror it was a royal manor." [1] By the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, the place name was listed as Eilesberia [2] and literally meant "stronghold or a man called Aegel. " [3] As far as the surname is concerned, the first record of the surname was found in 1188 when Richard of Aylesbury of Eynsham held estates in this shire.

Early History of the Aylesbury family
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Aylesbury Spelling Variations
Until the dictionary, an invention of only the last few hundred years, the English language lacked any comprehensive system of spelling rules. Consequently, spelling variations in names are frequently found in early Anglo-Saxon and later Anglo-Norman documents. One person's name was often spelled several different ways over a lifetime. The recorded variations of Aylesbury include Aylesbury, AylesBerry, Aylesbery, Aylesbry, Ailsberry, Ailsburry, Ailsbry and many more.


Distinguished members of the family include:
Sir THOMAS AYLESBURY(1576-1657):
1627–1657On leaving college he was appointed secretary to Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, lord high admiral of England. He was continued in the post by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Nottingham's successor (1619), who befriended him actively, procuring for him the additional offices of one of the masters of requests with, from 19 April 1627, the title of baronet. He was Surveyor of the Navy from 1628 for four years, and naval commissioner inspecting the fleet at Portsmouth in 1630 with Phineas Pett.

In 1635 Aylesbury, jointly with Ralph Freeman, formed a commission exercising the powers of the Master of the Mint. This came about by the exclusion from the position of Robert Harley, in favour of the previous incumbent Randal Cranfield, who then died suddenly.

In 1642 he was, as a steady royalist, stripped of his fortune and places, and on the death of the king retired with his family to Antwerp. He moved in 1652 to Breda, and there died in 1657 at the age of 81.

Sir Thomas was married twice. His second marriage was to Anne Denman with whom he had five children: William, Thomas, Frances, Anne and Barbara. Frances married Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, by whom she became the mother of Anne Hyde, first wife of King James II of England. It is through Anne Hyde that he became the great-grandfather of her two daughters, the queens Mary and Anne.

Sir ROGER AYLESBURY King's Minstrel,
When Sir Roger De Aylesbury was born about 1403, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sir Thomas Aylesbury, was 35 and his mother, Katherine Pabenham, was 32. His occupation is listed as king's minstrel in England, United Kingdom. He died about 1455, in his hometown, at the age of 54.
Sir THOMAS AYLESBURY Knight of Blatherwick:
Sir, Knight of Blatherwyck Thomas Aylesbury was born in 1369, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, his father, John Knight, was 21 and his mother, Isabel, was 19. He married Katherine de Pabenham in 1397, in Thenford, Northamptonshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 9 September 1418, in his hometown, at the age of 49, and was buried in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.

Lady FRANCIS AYLESBURY HYDE Countess of Clarendon:
Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon (25 August 1617 (baptised) – 8 August 1667), born Frances Aylesbury, was an English peeress. As the mother of Anne Hyde, she was mother-in-law to James II and VII, the deposed king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the maternal grandmother of Mary II and Queen Anne.

WILLIAM AYLESBURY:
Married Joan Mosse, son FRANCIS "ALSBURY"(family surname variation). Although possessing a large fortune, Aylesbury became, at the invitation of King Charles I, governor to the young Duke of Buckingham and his brother, Lord Francis Villiers, and travelled with them through France and Italy. In 1640 Aylesbury was residing in Paris, and in his correspondence with his brother-in-law, Sir Edward Hyde, which is preserved in the Bodleian Library among the Clarendon Papers, bitterly lamented the course of English politics under the Long Parliament. In the middle of May 1641 he returned from Paris to London with the Earl of Leicester, the English ambassador at the French court, with whom he had been apparently living for some months. Shortly afterwards he presented his former pupils to the king at Oxford, who promised him the next vacancy among the grooms of the chambers, but the promise was never fulfilled, and Aylesbury continued in the service of the Duke of Buckingham, as his agent, until the final defeat of the royalists.

During his interview with Charles I, the king urged Aylesbury, who was well acquainted with Italian, to continue a translation of Enrico Caterino Davila's History of the French Civil Wars which he had just begun, and during the following years he was mainly engaged with in this work. He was only in England at intervals, and witnessed his royal patron's disasters from the safe distance of Paris or Rome. On the fall of Charles I and the coming start of the Civil War, Aylesbury sought refuge with his father, first in Amsterdam, and afterwards in Antwerp. He also took under his protection his sister, Lady Hyde.

In 1650 he was forced to return to England, as the confiscation of his family's property left him without any means. He retired to the neighbourhood of Oxford and lived on the charity of his more fortunate friends.

Early in 1656, however, he obtained the office of secretary to Major-General Robert Sedgwick, who had just been appointed Governor of Jamaica, and finally left England. For a few months he took an active part in the government of the island, but he died on 24 August 1656. A letter conveying the news of his death to Secretary John Thurloe describes him as 'a man well versed in the weighty affairs of state, who in his counsels and advice, both to army and fleet, was very useful, for the want of which we shall have more and more to grieve.'

Early Aylesburies

These are the earliest records we have of the Aylesbury family.