Eleanor (Boston) Multon (1152 - 1199)

Born 1152 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England

Descendants

Died 1199 at about age 47 in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England

Biography

Eleanor, wife of Thomas de Multon, had property in Boston. She and Thomas had at least two sons, Thomas and Alan.^[1]

Eleanor probably died before October 1199. Their son Thomas succeeded his father by 1201.^[1]

Research Notes

Her parents are not known.^[1] While she may have been "of" Boston, neither Richardson nor Cokayne give her maiden name.

Born in Boston, Lincolnshire about 1160 (in text; 1152 in datafield as of 12 July 2024).^{[citation needed]}

Based on son Thomas being of age by 1201 and "abroad in the King's service by 1202",^[1] c1160 is reasonable (son born c1180). His first marriage to Sarah de Fleet was, according to Cokayne, "possibly circa 1190". He married (2) Ada de Morville by 10 March 1217/18.^[1] Considering the first marriage c1190 could have been a contract date, c1180 is still reasonable. However, Lambert was the son of Thomas and Sarah Fleet, and a negotiator in 1216 for his father's ransom,^[2] so likely Lambert was born before 1195. His father could have been born c1180 (15 at Lambert's birth), but more likely he would have been 21-25, so born c1170-1174.

The WikiTree profile for Thomas and Eleanor's son Thomas has a birth year of about 1165 (as of 12 July 2024), making her birth in 1152 a bit young (but not impossible). The c1165 birth year also explains the marriage year of 1164 given in her husband's profile.

Married in Multon, Spalding, Lincolnshire in 1182 (in text; about 1164 in Thomas's profile as of 12 July 2024).^{[citation needed]}

"Among their children was Thomas who was born in about 1165"^{[citation needed]} - also from Thomas's profile as of 12 July 2024.

Richardson says that Thomas and Eleanor had only one son, Thomas.^[2] Cokayne, in their son Thomas's writeup, mentions his brother Alan, so Thomas and Eleanor also had a son named Alan.^[1]

Eleanor may have been a widow when she died in 1199 - Cokayne says she probably died before October 1199.^[1] Richardson says that Thomas succeeded his father in 1198,^[2] but Cokayne says "by 1201".^[1]

Eleanor's death location - given as Moulton, Lincolnshire in the datafield as of 13 July 2024^{[citation needed]} - is not given in either Richardson or Cokayne.^[2][1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} G.E. Cokayne, Complete Peerage, volume 9, pages 398-401 (accessed 12 July 2024).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume III, HARINGTON 5, 6, and 7 (pages 215-218).

• Cokayne, George Edward. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, and Dormant, volume 9 (2d ed., 1936), pages 396-405 "Multon". The WikiTree source page for Complete Peerage has a link to the FamilySearch copy of volume 9.

See also:

• Keats-Rohan, Katharine. Domesday Descendants (2002), page 605. Google Books (preview).