Thomas II de Multon of Gillesland

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• Background Information. ⁷⁶⁰
Thomas de Multon was sheriff of the county of Lincoln, and in the same riegn attended to the king in his expedition into Poictou. This Thomas gave a a thousand marks to the crown for the wardship of the daughters and heirs of Richard de Luci, of Egremont, Cumberland, England. He later bestowed these ladies in marriage to his two sons. In the 17th John, being in arms with rebellious barons, and custody of Peter de Mauley, to be safely secured, who conveyed him as a prisoner to the castle of Corff, but in the 1st Henry III, making his peace he had restitution of his liberty and his lands. The next year he married a second time to Ada, daughter and coheir of Hugh de Morvill and widow of Richard Lacy, of Egremont. He did this without the King's license, and command was sent to the archbishop of York, to make seizure of all Thomas de Multon's lands in Cumberland, and to retain them in his hands until further orders. Thomas giving security to answer for the same, whenever the king should require him, was given back his lands. Three years later, he paid a £100 fine to the king, and one palfry for the office of forester of Cumberland, it being the inheritance of Ada, his wife. In the 17th of Henry III, he was sheriff of Cumberland. He remained in the office for several years. He also was one of the Justices of the king's Court of Common Pleas, from the 8 Henry III, and a justice itinerant from 9 Henry III. Thomas de Multon died in 1240.

The children of Thomas and his first wife were, Lambert, m. Annabel, daughter and co-heir of Richard de Lucie; and Alan, who married Alice, also the daughter and the other co-heir of Ricahrd de Lucie. Alan and Alice had a son, Thomas de Multon, who assumed the surname of Lucie.

Thomas de Mutlton and his second wife, Ada, had two children. Thomas de Multon of Gillesland and Julian who married Robert le Vavasour.

~Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, Vol. I, pg. 379

• Background Information. ⁸¹⁴
Thomas de Multon gave a thousand marks to King John for the wardship of the two daughters and coheirs of Ricahrd de Lucy, baron of Egremont, in Cumberland. He later married his sons to these two women. His son Lambert married Annabel, the eldest of the two, and they had a son who was called Thomas de Multon, of Egremont. The other son, Alan, married Alice the younger daughter of Richard de Lucy, and they had a son named Thomas, who assumed his mother's name of Lucy.

As his second wife, Thomas married Ada, the widow of Richard de Lucy. Ada was also the daughter of William Engayn and Ibria, daughter and heir of Robert d'Estrivers, baron of Bugh-upon-the-Sands, and hereditary forester of Cumberland. Ada and Thomas had a son, also named Thomas, who was hier to his mother's inheritance.

~Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Vol. I, pp. 343-344

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Thomas de Multon, son and heir of his father Thomas. 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, he 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 Lincolnshire for seven 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 favor by 1213. He presumably took part in John's disastrous expedition to Poitou, Feb to Nov 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 Dec 1215, Thomas 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 other insurgent Barons and their chief adherents. He returned to his allegiance 29 July 1217.

In 1218, after Thomas de Multon's 2^nd marriage, he had order for livery of the castle of Egremont and lands in Coupland, and all of his wife's lands in Cumberland and Westmorland. At the time he was made justice in Eyre of those counties and Lancaster. He was appointed a justice of the Common Pleas in 1224, and sat until 1236. He was knighted by Nov 1224. In Feb following, he was at Westminster and 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 Lincolnshire, and in October, the castle of Miserden, Gloucester, was committed to him. He was appointed sheriff of Cumberland, with custody of Carlisle Castle, 27 Jan 1232/3, acting until Easter 1236. In April 1238, he was made a commissioner to "extend" lands in Cumberland and Northumberland for the King of Scots.

Thomas de Multon married, 1^st, 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, 2^nd, before 10 March 1217/8, Ada, widow of Richard de Lucy (died 1213), and elder daughter and coheir of Hugh de Morville, by [query] 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.

~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, (Multon), Vol. IX, pp. 399-401

Thomas married Ada de Morville, daughter of Hugh de Morville Forester of Cumberland and Helwise de Stuteville.⁷⁶⁰ (Ada de Morville died after 1230.)

Thomas next married Sarah del Flete, daughter of Richard del Flete and Juliane, in 1213 in Lincolnshire, England.⁷⁷⁷ (Sarah del Flete was born about 1170.)