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He is first mentioned as receiving the grant of a market at Flete in1205 (Cal. Rot. Claus. i. 20). In 1206 he was sheriff of Lincolnshire,an office which he held till 1208, but having
offended the king he was on 21 July 1208 ordered to be imprisoned inRochester Castle till he had discharged his debt to the crown. Heaccompanied John to Ireland in June 1210, and on 25 Feb. 1213 wasappointed to investigate the extortion of the sheriffs of Yorkshireand Lincolnshire (Cal. Rot. Pat. p. 97), and in 1214 to inquire intothe losses of the church in the bishopric of Lincoln during theinterdict (Cal. Rot. Claus. i. 164-6). As a northern lord he sidedwith the barons in 1215, and was one of the confederates at Stamford;in consequence he was one of those excommunicated by the pope in 1216.Before this Multon had been taken prisoner by the king at Rochester on30 Nov. 1215, and placed in the custody of Peter de Mauley at Corfe.His lands were entrusted to Earl Ranulf of Chester, and, despite theefforts of his sons, he was not restored to liberty till 29 July
1217, when he made his peace with the crown (ib. i. 317 b).
In 1214 he had received the custody of the daughters of Richard deLucy of Egremont, and in 1218 married Lucy's widow, Ada, daughter ofHugh de Moreville. For this marriage he had to pay a heavy fine, butobtained in consequence the office of forester of Cumberland.
In 1219 he was one of the justices-itinerant for Cumberland,Westmoreland, and Lancashire, and during the next year for Yorkshireand Northumberland (ib. i. 434 b). After 1224 he sat continually as ajustice at Westminster. Fines were acknowledged before him from Easter1224 to Easter 1236, and he was a justice-itinerant in variouscounties up to August 1234 (cf. ib. ii. 77 b, 151 b, 202, 205 b, 208b, 213). In 1235-6 Multon occurs as ‘Justiciarius de Banco,’ andDugdale, interpreting this as one of the justices of the common pleas,further suggests that he was ‘capitalis.’ Foss, however, does notconsider that the term means more than a justice of the royal court,and rejects Dugdale's further suggestion. Multon was justice-itinerantat Dunstable in June 1224 with Henry de Braybroc, when Falkes deBreauté, incensed at their action against him, endeavoured to seizethem. Multon, more fortunate than his colleague, made good his escape.He was a witness to the
confirmation of Magna Charta in 1225. In 1229 he tried a suit betweenthe priory and town of Dunstable (Ann. Mon. iii. 122). From 1233 to1236 he was sheriff of Cumberland. According to Matthew Paris (iv. 49)Multon died in 1240, but the ‘Dunstable Annals’ (Ann. Mon. iii. 144)give the date as 1236.
Matthew Paris describes him as having been in his youth a boldsoldier, but in his later years a very wealthy man and learned lawyer.It is implied that he was not always scrupulous in the means ofacquiring wealth, for he is said to have done much injury
to the abbey of Croyland, of which he was a neighbour (MATT. PARIS,iv. 49). He was also defendant in a suit of novel disseisin with theabbot of Swineshead (Cal. Rot. Claus. ii. 124). He was, however, abenefactor of the monks of Calder and Holcotram, and of the hospitalof St. Leonard, in Skirbec, Lincolnshire. Multon married, first, adaughter of Richard Delfliet, by whom he had three sonsľAlan, who wastaken prisoner with him at Rochester, Lambert, and Thomas, a clerk.Lambert and Alan married Amabel and Alice de Luci, their father'swards. Lambert acquired with his wife the barony of Egremont; his
grandson Thomas was summoned to parliament from 1300 to 1321, andfought at Caerlaverock in 1300; on the death of John de Multon,Thomas's son, in 1334 the title fell into abeyance. Alan's son Thomastook his mother's name, and was ancestor of the Lucies of Cockermouth.By Multon's second wife he had a daughter Julian, who married Robertle Vavasour, and a son Thomas, who, by his marriage with Maud,daughter of Hubert de Vaux, acquired the barony of Gillesland. ThomasMulton, third baron of Gillesland, was summoned to parliament from1297 till his death in 1313. Through his daughter Margaret the baronypassed to Ralph Dacre; from this marriage sprang the titles of BaronDacre held by Viscount Hampden, and Baron Dacre of Gillesland held bythe Earl of Carlisle.
Sources:
Matthew Paris; Annales Monastici; Cal. of Close and Patent Rolls;Dugdale's Baronage, i. 567-9; Foss's Judges, ii. 415-19;
Nicolas's Song of Caerlaverock, p. 109.
Contributor:
C. L. K. [CHARLES LETHBRIDGE KINGSFORD]
PUBLISHED 1894John Wedgwood Pound BA (Hons)
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