Thomas de Londres

? LONDON

Spurious Pedigree

A former Lord Lindsay claimed that Eschina of London was the daughter of Thomas de Lundoniis, Hostiarius or "Door-ward" of Scotland, although no proof was offered. Lives of the Lindsays I: p. 24 It seems clear that he had Thomas of Lundie in mind, but the Lundie family took their name from Lundie in Forfarshire, rather than an unidentified place named London, and they have no known connection with the Barony of Molle (Mow) in Roxburghshire.

The Question of Identity

The Christian name of the gentleman treated here cannot be identified from surviving records. It is though likely, though that he was a member of the London family, and that he was the father of Eschina of London

Concerning the identity of his putative daughter Eschina of London, the late G. W. S. Barrow, formerly Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography in the University of Edinburgh, offered the following opinion: "Eschina, variously known as 'de Londres' or 'of Mow', styles which point to her being the granddaughter and heir of Uhtred son of Liulf, native lord of Mow in Roxburghshire, her father being a member of the de Londres or London family". [G. W. S. Barrow, The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History: The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1977 (Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 65n]