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Alexander Unton

Alexander Unton

English landowner

Alexander Unton (died 1547) was an English landowner.

He was the son of Thomas Unton and Elizabeth Hyde. Thomas Unton was knighted at the coronation of Anne Boleyn.[1]

His home was Wadley House at Faringdon, formerly in Berkshire, and now Oxfordshire. The Untons also held Minster Lovell Hall from the king.[2]

His first wife was Mary Bourchier, a daughter of John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners. In 1533 he married Cecily Bulstrode, daughter of Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley in Buckinghamshire.[3]

Their children included:[4]

Alexander Unton was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward VI on 20 February 1547.[5] He died on 16 December 1547.[6]

After his death, his widow Cecily married Robert Keilway, and was the mother of Anne Keilway.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    Stanley Thomas Bindoff, House of Commons, 1509-1558, II (London, 1982), p. 506.
  2. [2]
    John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxii.
  3. [3]
    Arthur Collins, Proceedings, Precedents, and Arguments concerning Baronies (London, 1734), p. 342.
  4. [4]
    John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxxiv.
  5. [5]
    John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxxi.
  6. [6]
    John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxxii.
  7. [7]
    Rayne Allinson, 'Anne Keilwey Harington', Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, eds, A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen (Routledge, 2017), p. 67.
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