Ada (Morville) de Multon (abt. 1187 - bef. 1241)

Born about 1187 in Burgh By Sands, Cumberland, England [uncertain]

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Died before 1241 before about age 54 in Burgh By Sands, Cumberland, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Ada was born in about 1187 in Burgh by Sands, Cumberland, England. She was the daughter of Hugh de Morville and Helewise (de Stuteville) Morville.

Ada's first marriage was to Richard de Lucy, son of Reynold de Lucy and Amabel FitzDuncan, in 1200.

They had 2 daughters:^[1]

• Amabel, wife of Sir Lambert de Multon
• Alice, wife of Alan de Multon

Ada de Moreville married, secondly, Sir Thomas de Multon, Sheriff of Lincolnshire & Cumberland, Justice of the Common Pleas, son of Sir Thomas Multon and Eleanor, circa February 1218. ^[2] By marrying the heiress of Hugh de Moreville, Thomas 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, all in Cumberland, which Hugh de Moreville had built and obtained a market for, with the castle and manor of Knaresborough, in Yorkshire. By both marriages, but particularly this one he had substantially increased his estates and become a major force in Cumberland.

He had married Ada without the KIng's Licence, and the Archbishop of York was ordered to seize all his lands in Cumberland as a penalty. ^[3] His lands were returned to him in 2018 after he had livery. ^[1]

They had 1 son:^[1]

• Thomas who was born in about 1220.

Thomas gave a thousand Marks to the King for the wardship of the daughters of his wife by her previous marriage, who were also the heirs of Richard de Lucy ^[4]. They were later bestowed in marriage to their step-brothers, his sons Lambert and Alan.

Ada probably died in 1241 shortly after her husband..^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 214-218.
2. ↑ Patent Roll 2 Henry III Membrane 3 and Close Roll 2 Henry III Membrane 9 as cited in The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility in the Saxons time to the Norman conquest, and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third's reign deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities. Sir William Dugdale 1677 Page 563 at https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A36794.0001.001/1:6.199?rgn=div2;view=fulltext (Accessed October 30 2021)
3. ↑ Patent Roll 2 Henry III cited in Dugdale Baronage ibid.
4. ↑ Finance Rolls 15 john Membrane 8 cited in Dugdale Baronage ibid

See Also

• British History online: Burgh by Sands
• Marlyn Lewis