Thomas de Multon

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Burgh-by-Sands, Carlisle, Cumberland, England
• Alternate death: Bef 14 Jan 1271

Notes:

Sided with the barons against the King, 1264.

Thomas married Maud de Vaux before 28 Oct 1235. Maud (daughter of Herbert de Vaux and Aline) was born in of Surlingham, Norfolk, England; died before 28 May 1293. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Aline de Multon died before 1268.

Notes:

Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1205-8; Justice of Common Pleas 1224-36; Sheriff of Cumberland 1233-6.

Thomas received wardship of Ada's 1st husband Richard de Lucy's daughters; and he married them to his sons.

From Wikipedia:

"Sir Thomas was an unlucky speculator under John, King of England owing over £800 when the Exchequer reopened after the end of the First Barons' War. In 1205 he purchased the office of High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, which he held until 1208. Unable to pay his debts, he was imprisoned in Rochester Castle until he had discharged them. He regained royal favour, and in 1213 was appointed to investigate extortions by the High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. As a northern lord and debtor Moulton sided with the Barons during the First Baron's War (see Magna Carta). A civil war that was fought over land that he had earned; during his service to the crown in the Crusades and was the very reason for his knighthood. He was also one of the rebels who mustered at Stamford in 1215. As a consequence he was excommunicated in 1216 having previously been captured by the King in 1215. He was then entrusted to Peter de Mauley and his lands were confiscated, being restored in 1217.

"Under Henry III Moulton became an important royal agent in the north; between 1217 and 1218 he was an itinerant justice for Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Northumberland. In 1224 he sat as a justice at Westminster, a position he held until 1236. In 1229 he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, a position he held until 1233 and again between 1234 and 1236. Between 1233 and 1236 he was High Sheriff of Cumberland and constable of Carlisle Castle. His last activity was in 1238, when he worked as a surveyor of the royal demesne in Cumberland, dying in 1240."

From Complete Peerage IX:399-401:

Thomas de Multon, son and heir. He was the builder of the family fortunes both by his personal abilities and the rich marriages which he contrived to secure for himself and his children. He had succeeded his father by 1201; in 1202 was abroad in the King's service, and had pardon of tallage for himself and his men in 1204. He gave 500 marks in 1205 to be sheriff of Lincs for 7 years, but was thrown into prison in Rochester in the summer of 1208. His brother Alan appears to have served for him with the King in Ireland in 1210, and he himself to have taken part in the King's campaign in North Wales in the following year. He had regained credit and the King's favour by 1213. He presumably took part in John's disastrous expedition to Poitou, February to November 1214, and was with the King at Guildford early in 1215, but at the Easter meeting at Stamford declared himself on the side of the Barons. In December he was taken at the capture of Rochester Castle, and imprisoned at Corfe. His castle of Moulton and lands were seized and committed to the Earl of Chester. Negotiations for his liberation went on till after the death of John, and a heavy ransom was paid. He was excommunicated by name among the insurgent Barons and their chief adherents. He returned to his allegiance 29 July 1217. In 1218, after his 2nd marriage, he had order for livery of the castle of Egremont and lands in Coupland, and all his wife's lands in Cumberland and Westmorland, and was made justice in Eyre of those counties and Lancs. He was appointed a justice of the Common Pleas in 1224, and sat till 1236. He was knighted by November 1224. In Feb. following at Westminster he witnessed the confirmation of the Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest. In 1226 he was appointed chief keeper of the annual fair at Boston. In April 1230 he was in charge of money and jewels which the King was taking to France; in May he was made joint keeper of the coast and ports of Lincs; and in October the castle of Miserden, Glos., was committed to him. He was appointed sheriff of Cumberland, with custody of Carlisle Castle, 27 January1232/3, acting till Easter 1236; and in April 1238 a commissioner to 'extend' lands in Cumberland and Northumberland for the King of Scots.

He married, 1stly, possibly circa 1190, Sarah, daughter and heir of Richard de Flete (son of Josce de Flete), by Juliane, who brought him the manor of Fleet, Lincs. He married, 2ndly, before 10 March 1217/8, Ada, widow of Richard de Lucy (died 1213), and elder daughter and coheir of Hugh de Morvill, by Heloise de Stuteville, which Ada was mother of the two heiresses to whom he married his sons (see Lucy). He died in 1240. His widow died shortly afterwards.

Thomas married Ada de Morville before 10 Mar 1218. Ada (daughter of Hugh de Morville and Helewise de Stuteville) died after 1230. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 29 Sep 1241

Notes:

"He [Richard de Lucy] married (1200-1204) Ada, eldest daughter and coheir of Hugh de Morvill, forester of Cumberland and lord of the Border barony of Burgh. He died s.p.m., early in 1213, and was bur. in the priory of St. Bees. Before 10 March 1217/18, his widow had married Thomas de Multon, of Multon, near Spalding, who, within a few months of the death of Richard de Lucy, had offered 1,000 marks for the custody and marriage of his daughters and heirs; these two daughter she married to his two sons by a former marriage--vix. Amabel, the elder, to his son Lambert, and Alice, the younger, to his son Alan de Multon. Ada, the relict of Richard de Lucy, was living in 1230." [Complete Peerage VIII:248-9, XIV:456]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
• Alternate birth: of Weston, Lincolnshire, England

Thomas married Eleanor. Eleanor died before Oct 1199. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Forester of Cumberland. Not his cousin the Hugh de Morville who was one of the murderers of Thomas Becket. (Wikipedia conflates the two, at least as of 11 Nov 2015.)

Hugh married Helewise de Stuteville. Helewise (daughter of Robert de Stuteville and Helewise) was born in 1165; died in 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1228

Notes:

He was the grandson of an Anglo-Saxon thegn, a woman. Ethel Stokes in Complete Peerage IX: 396: "Lambert de Multon, earliest recorded ancestor, descended on a least one side from English thegns. In 1142 or 1143 he held 2 carucates of land in Revesby by William (de Roumare), Earl of Lincoln, by the service of 1/4 knight's fee, as grandson (and heir) of Brictive, and an oxgang of land under Robert, his wife's father." Footnote (b) on the same page notes that the Latin form of Brictive would be Brictiva, or in Anglo-Saxon, Beorhtgifu, and continues "A woman of this name was joint tenant of lands in Hackthorn, &c., before the Conquest, and a Brictiva, holding as a thegn, possessed at the time of Domesday a carucate of land in Corby in demesne, with her own team of [8] oxen. [...] The name still survived in the county in the 13th century."

Lambert married (Unknown wife of Lambert de Multon). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simon married Ada d'Engaine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1183

Robert married Helewise. Helewise died after 1183. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]