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unusual facts about Thomas de Multon, 1st Baron Multon of Gilsland



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Thomas de Multon, Lord of Multon, Judge, High Sheriff of Lincolnshire and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

Thomas de Multon, 1st Baron Multon of Gilsland

She married Ranulph (Ralph) de Dacre, whom she married because she found him chivalrous and against her father's wishes but he later approved when he found out that the family was a match to his own in estate and power, according to the Moulton Annals.

The title and estates after Margaret inherited them was conveyed to the Dacre family.

Thomas de Multon, Lord

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.

The Lord of Moulton (misprinted as Multon by the scribes of the time period) was born in Lincolnshire, England and fought as a Knight in Normandy and then settled in the French Providence of Orbec in 1203,


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