Thomas de Moulton, Justiciar

He sided with the barons but was not one of the baronial signers of the Magna Charta. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta

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Had two sons by his first wife (Sarah de Flete), who married the daughters of his second wife (Ada de Morville) by her first husband (Richard de Lucy), causing a genealogical Gordian knot and a lot of confusion..

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'This Sir Thomas of the fourth generation was sheriff during the 9th and 10th years of King John's dynasty, and in the 15th year of his reign, attended the king in his expedition into Poicton. Two years later he was taken in arms with the rebellious barons and imprisoned in the Castle of Corffe. This was the Thomas Moulton whose name appears upon Magna Carta as one of the English barons who had wrung this great charter of liberty from an unwilling king. He had insisted with his brave and patriotic fellow-signers that the king adhere to this charter; but King John attempted to annul it and these barons rose against him. Unfortunately Sir Thomas was captured. His term of imprisonment ended with the incoming of a new dynasty, at the death of King John. All his castles and estates were restored to him. But his troubles were not ended. He married a second wife, a widow and the mother of the two heiresses whose wardship he had paid for in 1,000 marks and whom he had married to his sons.

The new king, Henry III., commanded the Archbishop of York to seize his castles and lands and hold them for damages for his boldness in marrying this rich widow with titles and estates, without first getting his permission.

However, Sir Thomas was equal to the occasion in resources and ability. He gave security and continued in possession of lands and castles. He seems to have settled very cheaply, his fine for the supposed offense being £ 100 ; and the token of a horse in addition satisfied the king and confirmed Sir Thomas in the office of forester of Cumberland, which was the inheritance of this second wife, Ada.

Moulton Annals

He owned the following lands in Egremont (Cumberland) , Moulton (Lincolnshire) , Ravensglass (Cumberland) and Thurstons End (Suffolk).

Gazeteers in Markets in England and Wales to 1516.

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The patrimonial estate of the Moultons was the castle and manor of Moulton and the town and manor of Spalding, in the county of Lincoln; but Thos. de Moulton by marrying the heiress of Hugh de Moreville had added the barony of Burgh on the Sands, the charge and property of hereditary forester of the forest of Inglewood, the manor of Lazonby and the manor and castle of Kirke—Oswald, which Hugh de Moreville had built and obtained a market for, with the castle and manor of Knaresborough, in Yorkshire.

Then from Maud de Vallibus, the barony of Gillesland, with its dependent manors, with the Hamlets of Brakenhill, Eckelesby, Melverton and Northwood, the manor of Aikton, Rowcliffe and Glassonby in Cumberland; of Barton Adelathes and the moiety of the town of Overton or Orton in Westmoreland, the manor of Hatton in Norfolk and other possessions in Suffolk, Somersetshire and Dorsetshire and the manor of Nether Trayline in Scotland.

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In the time of King Henry I, Thomas de Moulton, so called from his residence at Moulton, in Lincolnshire, bestowed at the funeral of his father, in the Chapter House at Spalding (his mother, brothers, sisters,and friends being present), the church of Weston upon the monks of that abbey. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 388, Multon, BaronsMulton, of Egremont]

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http://opendomesday.org/place/TF3024/moulton/
historical place name: Moulton, Hundred of Elloe, Lincolnshire, Kingdom of England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgh_by_Sands "Hadrian's Wall runs through the village [of Burgh by Sands], and the site once was that of a Roman fort, Aballava. It has also been mooted as a possible site for the semi-mythical Avalon where King Arthur died and the legendary Excalibur was forged.

In the 12th century, the castle and lands of Burgh by Sands belonged to a female-dominated line of feudal barons, among them Ada de Engaine. Her granddaughter's second marriage founded a younger branch of the de Multon family, a branch of which held this castle in the 13th century."

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