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]
- Edward Unton (1534–1582), who married Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick
- Henry Unton
- Thomas Unton
- Elizabeth Unton (died 1611), who married John Croke of Chilton
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 edit
- ^ Stanley Thomas Bindoff, House of Commons, 1509-1558, II (London, 1982), p. 506.
- ^ John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxii.
- ^ Arthur Collins, Proceedings, Precedents, and Arguments concerning Baronies (London, 1734), p. 342.
- ^ John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxxiv.
- ^ John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxxi.
- ^ John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxxii.
- ^ 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.