Piers de Mauley

Peter de Maulay

Peter de Maulay or Peter de Mauley[a] (died 1241) was a nobleman and administrator who was one of King John of England's "evil counsellors".

Maulay's parentage is unknown, but he originated from the Maulay region in Poitou.[1] He appears to have had a younger brother named Aimery, who possibly was the same as an Aimery de Maulay who owned lands in Quinçay and La Rochelle between 1218 and 1259. In a monastic chronicle, Peter is said to have relinquished his lands in France to Aimery in 1204.,[2] after the overlordship of the lands passed from King John of England to King Philip II of France.[3] Peter's first appearance in the historical record was in 1202.[1] Under John, he was appointed an usher in the king's household,[4] where he soon became a close advisor of the king. He was considered one of the "evil counsellors" of John by the chronicler Roger of Wendover.[1]

After John's loss of Normandy, Maulay went to England and was given the manor of Upavon in Wiltshire.[1] His grant of the manor was at the king's pleasure, because the manor, which had been held by a noble who forfeited his land in England by staying in Normandy after its loss, would need to be restored to its rightful holder if John recovered Normandy.[5] He served as an envoy to Rome in 1213 and in 1214 was in command of royal forces at La Rochelle in France. He married in 1214 Isabella, the daughter and heiress of Robert of Thornham.[1] Thornham had died in 1211, so through his wife, Maulay acquired the Barony of Mulgrave in Yorkshire.[6] Maulay paid the king 7000 marks as a fine for the right to marry Isabella, one of the highest fines paid for the right to marry under John.[7][b] According to the medieval chronicler Ralph of Coggeshall, Maulay was the murderer of John's nephew Arthur of Brittany.[8]

When the barons of England revolted against John in 1215, Maulay was given command of Corfe Castle by John. Along with Corfe, Maulay was also given custody of John's younger son, Richard of Cornwall. In 1216 he was given the office of Sheriff of Dorset and Somerset, where he made a name for himself with his exactions and heavy profiteering.[1] Besides the custody of Richard of Cornwall, Maulay was also responsible for supervising the confinement of John's niece, Eleanor of Brittany. At times, he was also responsible for keeping John's wife, Isabella of Angouleme and his heir, Prince Henry, safe from rebels, as long as they were at Corfe.[9]

Maulay remained in office under the new king, Henry III, who succeeded to the throne in late 1216.[1] While at Corfe, he had custody of William of Lancaster, who had been captured by the royalist side at Rochester in 1215. Ranulf de Blondeville, the Earl of Chester, attempted to secure William's freedom but was rebuffed by Maulay, leading the earl to threaten to depart England and the king's cause and go on crusade.[10][c] In early 1217 Maulay was ordered by the regent, William Marshal, to surrender control of Sherborne Castle and Somerset to William Longespee, the Earl of Salisbury, to help secure the return of Longespee to the royal cause.[12] But Maulay refused to do so.[13] In October 1217, Maulay was summoned to the royal court to answer charges that he had waged a private war against the earl over control of Somerset, and that he had broken a truce that had held between the two men.[14] The dispute was finally solved in February 1218 when Maulay was confirmed by the regent as custodian of Sherborne Castle and in the office of Sherif of Somerset. Maulay compensated Longespee for his loss with a payment of 500 pounds, and a further payment of 1000 pounds by the government and custody of a royal ward.[15]

Maulay received a total of 6561 marks by 1221 from ransoms paid by 16 prisoners he held at Corfe.[16][d] He also paid nothing into the Exchequer from Somerset or Dorset for the period from 1218 to 1220,[18] with the total owed to the government amounting to a bit over 1500 pounds.[19][e] Maulay's extortions, however, led to him losing custody of Richard of Cornwall in 1220.[1]

Maulay brought Richard of Cornwall to London to attend his brother's second coronation,[21] which occurred on 17 May.[22]

On 20 May 1221 Maulay was accused of treason by Richard Mucegros and Hubert de Burgh before the king. The specific crime was alleged to be a plot to hand over Eleanor of Brittany to King Louis IX of France. Eleanor was held as a prisoner at Corfe Castle,[23] and she was the daughter of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, elder brother of King John.[24] Eleanor had been held captive since 1202, because she had a strong claim to the English throne.[25] Maulay was imprisoned for a short time, but on 4 June was released after surrendering Corfe to the king. He was allowed to retain his sheriffdom. The accusation may have owed more to the fact that Maulay had recently taken Mucegros' lands into custody because Mucegros had failed to make a payment due for a royal fine. The event may also have been used by de Burgh as an opportunity to weaken Maulay's patron and de Burgh's rival for power, Peter des Roches, while des Roches was out of England. The loss of Corfe by one of des Roches' primary supporters would have weakened des Roches' standing and power.[23] In July Peter des Roches returned to England and in late July was instrumental in the clearing of Maulay from the charges of treason. Maulay was not given back custody of Corfe, but on 29 July the royal government discharged the 7000 marks that Maulay still owed for his marriage fine. The stated reason for the release of this debt was to compensate Maulay for his expenses while controlling Corfe, but the real reason appears to have been to compensate for the loss of Corfe.[26] In late 1221 Maulay agreed to go on crusade with Peter des Roches and Falkes de Breauté, another of des Roches supporters.[27] The loss of Damietta in September meant that the three men postponed their departure,[28] and in November 1221 Maulay was replaced as sheriff. In return for Maulay's agreement to the ouster, the Exchequer wrote off more debts that Maulay owed the government, this time over 8800 marks.[29] Maulay retired to his lands in Yorkshire.[1]

In February 1223, Maulay forfeited Upavon to the king. This was part of a string of confiscations that struck at supporters of des Roches, including William de Cantilupe, Breauté, and Robert de Vieuxpont, by taking back grants that had been made earlier and which were held at the king's will. The seizures were made to teach the nobles a lesson and curb their dissension from the royal government, which was in the hands of Roches' rival de Burgh. Most of the manors, including Upavon, were returned to their previous holders in April after a settlement between de Burgh and those who resented his government.[30] Around this time Maulay began work on the castle of Mulgrave Castle, in Yorkshire, which was part of his wife's inheritance.[1] In June and July 1224, Maulay was present at on the royal side at the siege of Bedford Castle, which was held by de Breauté against the government.[31][f] In 1225 Maulay claimed that he had sworn to King John that he would not give up custody of the royal castles until after John's son came of age.[32] Maulay lost Upavon to the king again in 1229,[33] with the king regranting Upavon to Gilbert Basset.[34] This grant to Basset was by charter, with the lands to be held in fee. Maulay claimed that he only gave up his tenure because of threats by de Burgh.[5]

Maulay returned to royal service in 1230[g] when he joined the royal expedition to Brittany and was once more at the royal court in 1232 as a follower of Peter des Roches. Maulay regained Upavon in 1233,[1] after the king reopened the case.[34] Henry justified his action as being exercised "per voluntatem nostrum", or through his own will.[36] Henry opened a case of quo warranto, and then declined to recognize his own charter as valid, thus granting the manor to Maulay.[5] Although the case could be made that Maulay's right to the manor was better than Basset's, it is more probable that the dispute over Upavon and it's ownership was the opening move in an effort to curtail the influence of Richard Marshall, the Earl of Pembroke.[36] It was also an attempt to turn back grants made by the king to de Burgh's supporters, now that de Burgh had fallen from power.[5] The royal actions led to conflict between Henry III and the barons, because of Henry's grant of the manor to Basset. The restoration to Maulay and Basset's deprivation were considered illegal by many of the nobles, and led to a revolt by Basset and Marshal, who was Basset's overlord.[1] Maulay was seen as a non-Englishman who was profiting over a popular English noble, Basset.[5] Maulay was briefly in disgrace but managed to return to favour,[1] and was named constable of Devizes in January 1234, his first royal appointment since 1221.[37] He was granted the office of Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1236,[1] perhaps owing these offices more to his former ward, Richard of Cornwall, than to his patron des Roches, who fell from power in 1234. Des Roches' loss of power did not adversely affect Maulay's royal service.[38]

Maulay had vowed to go on crusade in 1220, and in 1241 he finally set out for the Holy Land, along with Richard of Cornwall. He died later in 1241, probably while still in the Holy Land. His wife died before him and his heir was his son Peter de Maulay.[1] Maulay had endowed a chantry at Meaux Abbey in Yorkshire in memory of his wife. He also confirmed grants of lands to Eskdale Priory, a Grandmontine house founded by Isabella's father.[39] Maulay was also a benefactor of the Knights of Saint Thomas, a military religious order for Englishmen.[40]

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_de_Maulay

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• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 37
• Mauley, Peter de by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford ‎
• MAULEY, PETER de (d. 1241), favourite of King John, was a Poitevin noble, who left his inheritance to his brother Aymer, and entered the service of King John. According to the account preserved in Hemingburgh (i. 232), he was employed by John to murder Arthur of Brittany, but no contemporary writer mentions him by name in this connection. He received a grant of land in December 1202 (Hardy, Rot. Normanniæ, p. 66), and is mentioned in the king's service in 1205 (Rot. Lit. Pat. 25 b), and his name is of frequent occurrence in the Close and Patent Rolls during the remainder of John's reign. Hemingburgh states that he was rewarded for his share in Arthur's murder with the hand of Isabel, heiress of the barony of Mulgres, and daughter of Robert de Turnham. Turnham's lands were granted to Mauley on 25 April 1214 (ib. p. 113). Matthew Paris mentions him as one of John's evil counsellors in 1211 (ii. 533). In 1214 he served with John in Poitou (Rot. Lit. Pat. p. 112), and in the following year was entrusted with the charge of Corfe Castle (ib. p. 128), where he had custody of much treasure and various important prisoners. On 26 June 1216 he was made sheriff of the counties of Somerset and Dorset (ib. p. 189). Mauley retained charge of both the castle and the counties during the first years of Henry III. On 7 May 1220 he was summoned to come from Corfe to the coronation, and bring with him the king's brother Richard and the regalia (Rot. Lit. Claus. i. 417 b). In February 1221 he joined with Falkes de Breauté [q. v.] in supporting William, earl of Albemarle, at Biham. He was arrested during the summer, and forced to resign his castles. This was on a charge of treason, in having promised to hand over Eleanor, sister of Arthur of Brittany, to the king of France (Coventry, ii. 260; Ann. Mon. iii. 75). He, however, made his peace with the king in the autumn, and next year received the charge of Sherborne Castle. Dugdale says he died in 1222, but the ‘Chronicon de Melsa’ states that he survived his wife, who died apparently after 1235 (i. 105, ii. 59), and Matthew Paris, in referring to his death in 1241, speaks of him as ‘natione Pictaviensis diuque in clientela regis Johannis educatus et ditatus’ (iv. 89; but see also Excerpta e Rot. Finium, pp. 364, 379, 409, and Calendarium Genealogicum, i. 278). It was probably he, and not his son, who supported Randulph Blundevill, earl of Chester, in 1224 (Matt. Paris, iii. 83), was one of the sponsors for Henry's son Edward in 1239, and in 1241, going on the crusade with William de Fortibus, earl of Albemarle, died in the Holy Land during the same year. He built Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby, and was a benefactor of Meaux Abbey, where he endowed a chapel in memory of his wife. He left a son Peter, who succeeded him, and was followed by six others of the same name. Peter III (d. 1309) was summoned to parliament in 1295, and served in the wars of Edward I in Wales, Scotland, and Gascony. His brother Edmund, who was killed at Bannockburn, was steward to Edward II and a friend of Piers Gaveston (Chron. Edw. I and II, i. 215, 272–273, ii. 42, 183). Peter VIII succeeded his grandfather, Peter VI, in 1383, and died without issue, when the barony fell into abeyance. The present Lord de Mauley is of a modern creation, though he descends from the old barons in the female line.
• [Matt. Paris; Walter of Coventry's Memoriale; Annales Monastici; Chronicon de Melsa (all in Rolls Ser.); Dugdale's Baronage, i. 733; other authorities as quoted.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mauley,_Peter_de_(DNB00)
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• Pier de Mauley, 1st Lord Mauley1
• M, #33691, d. before 22 December 1241
• Pier de Mauley, 1st Lord Mauley was born at of Poitou, France. He married Isabel de Turnham, daughter of Sir Robert de Turnham, circa 1214. Pier de Mauley, 1st Lord Mauley died before 22 December 1241.
• Family Isabel de Turnham d. b 22 Jan 1238
• Children
  • Katherine Mauley+2
  • Piers de Mauley, 2nd Lord Mauley, Sheriff of Northampton+ b. c 1226, d. b 15 Jul 1279
• Citations
• [S10488] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VIII, p. 554-558.
• [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1122.htm#... _________________
• A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct ... By Sir Bernard Burke
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• The first mention of this name and family occurs shortly after the decease of King RICHARD I , when his brother JOHN, Earl of Moreton, to clear his own way to the throne, employed Peter de Mauley, a Poictovin, his esquire, to murder his nephew, Prince Arthur of Britanny, and in reward of the foul deed, gave to the said
• PETER DE MAULEY, in marriage, Isabel, dau. of Robert de Turnham, and heiress of the Barony of Mulgrave. This Peter, throughout the whole reign of King John, adhering to his royal master, obtained considerable grants from the crown, and was esteemed amongst the evil advisers of the king. In the height of The baronial war, most of the prisoners of rank were committed to his custody, and he was constituted (18th JOHN), sheriff of the cos. of Dorset and Somerset. In the 4th HENRY III., upon the coronation of that monarch, Peter de Mauley had summons to assist thereat, and to bring with him the regalia, then in his custody at Corfe Castle, which had been entrusted to him by King JOHN; and the next year, being again sheriff of the cos. Somerset and Dorset, he delivered up the castle of Corfe to the king, with Alianore, the king's kinswoman, and Isabel, sister to the King of Scots as well as all the jewels, military engines, and ammunition there, which the late monarch had formerly commit to his custody. Soon after this, he was made governor of Sherburne Castle, co. Dorset, and dying in 1221, was s. by his son,
• PETER DE MAULEY, who giving 100 marks for his relief, had livery of his lands. Amongst the causes of discontent avowed by Richard Mureschall in his contest with HENRY III. was, that the king by the advice of foreigners, had dispossessed Gilbert Basset, a great baron of the time, of the manor of Nether-Haven, co. Wilts, and conferred it upon this Peter de Mauley. The king, nevertheless, continuing his favour to Peter, constituted him govenor of the castle of Devizes, and the next year (20th HENRY III..) made him sheriff of Northamptonshire. Moreover, in 1239, he was one of the godfathers, at the baptismal font to Prince Edward (the king's eldest son), and in 1241 he accompanied William de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarle, and divers other noble persons to the Holy Land. This feudal lord m. Joane, dau. of Peter de Brus, of Skelton, and d. in 1242. Upon his decease Gerard le Grue paid 500 marks for the ferme of his lands, and had the custody of the castle of Mulgrave; maintaining his widow with necessaries, keeping the buildings in repair, and not committing waste in the woods. Peter de Mauley was s. by his son,
• PETER DE MAULEY (commonly called the 3rd), who doing his homage in the 31st HENRY III., had livery of his lands. ln the 42nd of the same reign, the Scots having made a prisoner of their King ALEXANDER III. (son-in-law of the English monarch), Peter de Mauley received summons with the other northern barons to fit himself with horse and arms for the relief of the Scottish prince. He m. Nichola, dau. of Gilbert de Gant, son of Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln, and had issue,
  • PETER, his successor.
  • Edmund, a very eminent person in the reign of EDWARD I and II., and greatly distinguished in the Scottish wars. He had a grant of the manor of Seton. co. York. He was successively governor of the castle of Bridgenorth, of the town and castle of Bristol, and the castle of Cockermouth. He fell at the battle of Banoockburn, and dying s.p., his estates passed to his nephew,
  • Peter de Mauley.
• He was s. at his decease by his elder son,
• PETER DE MAULEY (called the 4th), who, in the 7th EDWARD I., doing his homage, and paying £100 for his relief, had livery of all his lands, which he held of the king in capite by barony of the inheritance of William Fossard (whose grand-dau. and heir, Isabel de Turnham, was wife of the first Peter de Mauley). This feudal lord having been engaged in the Welsh and Scottish wars, was summoned to parliament as a Baron by King EDWARD I., 23 June, 1295, and he had regular summons from that period to 12 December, 1309. In the 25th EDWARD I. his lordship was in the expedition then made into Gascony, and in consideration of his good services there, obtained from the king a grant of the marriage of Thomas, the son and heir of Thomas de Multon, of Gillesland, deceased. For several years after this he was actively employed in the warfare of Scotland. His lordship m. Eleanor, dau. of Thomas, Lord Furnival, and dying in 1310, was s. by his son,
• SIR PETER DE MAULEY, 2nd baron, summoned to parliament from 19 December, 1311, to 15 March, 1354. This nobleman was for several years actively engaged In the wars of Scotland, and was a commander at the battle of Durham (20th EDWARD III.), wherein the Scots, under their king, DAVID BRUS, sustained so signal a defeat, the monarch himself being made prisoner. His lordship m. Margaret, dau. of Robert, Lord Clifford, and dying In 1355 waa s. by his son,
• PETER DE MAULEY, 3rd baron, summoned to parliament from 20 September, 1355, to 7 January, 1383. This nobleman, in the 30th EDWARD III., shared in the glorious victory of Poictiers, and in three years afterwards he was in the expedition then made in Gascony. In the 41st of the same reign he was joined in commission with the bishop of Durham, Henry, Lord Percy, and others, for guarding the marches of Scotland ; and again, in the 3rd RICHARD II., with the Earl of Northumberland. His lordship m. 1st, in the 31st EDWARD III., Elizabeth, widow of John, Lord Darcy, and dau. and heir of Nicholas, Lord Meinill, without license, for which office he paid a fine of £100, and obtained pardon. He m. 2ndly, Margery, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Thomas de Sutton, of Sutton in Holderness, and had issue (by which wife not known),
• Peter, who m. Margery, one of the daus. and co-heirs of the Thomas de Sutton, Knt., and dying in the life-time of his father, left issue,
  • PETER, successor to his grandfather.
  • Constance, m. 1st, William Fairfax, s. p., and 2ndly. Sir John Bigot, ancestor by her of the Bigots of Moulgrave.
  • Elizabeth, m. to George Salvaine, Esq. "The present heir-general of the said Elizabeth Salvaine" (we quote COURTHOPE's Historic Peerage), "and consequently one of the co-heirs of the barony is Charles-Frederick-Ashley-Cooper Ponsonby, Lord de Mauley, son of William-Francis Spencer Ponsonby, Lord de Mauley, by Lady Barbara. dau. and sole heir of Anthony, 5th Earl of Shaftesbury, by Barbara, his wife, dau. and heir of Sir John Webb. Bart, by Mary, sister and eventually sole heir of Thomas Salvaine, Esq., the heir male and heir general of the above-mentioned George Salvaine, and Elizabeth Mauley, his wife."
• His lordship d. in 1383, seized of the manor and castle of Mulgrave, the manor of Doncaster with its members, and a moiety of the manor of Helagh, all in the co. York. He was s. by his grandson,
• PETER DE MAULEY, 4th baron, who making proof of . his age in the 22nd RICHARD II., had livery of the lands of his inheritance, as well as those derived from his grandfather, as from Thomas, his uncle. This nobleman was made a knight of the Bath at the coronation of King HENRY IV., and was summoned to parliament from 18 August, 1399, to 12 August, 1415. His lordship m. the Lady Maud Nevil, dau. of Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, but d. in 1415, s. p., when his sisters (refer to
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• issue of 3rd baron) became his heirs, and between those the Barony of Mauley fell into ABEYANCE, at it still continues amongst their representatives. In the distribution of the Mauley estates, Leland says, "Bigot had the castle of Maugreve, (Mulgrave), with eight tounelettes therabout the se cost longging to it, whereof Seton thereby was one. Saulwyne had, for his part, the Barony of Eggeston on Eske, not far from Whitby; also Lokington-Barugh, not far from Watton-on-hull ryver, Nesseark, and the lordship of Doncaster." _______________________
• Mulgrave Castle refers to one of three structures on the same property in Lythe, near Whitby, Yorkshire, England. One of these, known as the "old" or "ancient" castle, was by legend founded by Wada, a 6th-century ruler of Hälsingland. The second castle, (54.4935°N 0.7055°W) caput of the feudal barony of Mulgrave, was of Norman construction and remained active until destroyed by order of Parliament in 1647. The third is a country house (54.5012°N 0.6922°W) which was constructed by Lady Catherine Darnley and passed in 1718 by marriage into the Phipps family, when her daughter Lady Catherine Annesley married William Phipps. The Phipps family later held the titles of Baron Mulgrave, Earl of Mulgrave and Marquess of Normanby.
• .... etc.
• A second castle, which occupied the entire width of the ridge, seems to have been Norman, presumably constructed by Nigel Fossard (d. about 1120), who obtained the property after the Norman Conquest.[1] Fossard is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a tenant of 114 manors, all in Yorkshire, including under Robert, Count of Mortain of "Grif", identified as Mulgrave in the hundred of Langbaurgh.[2] He became himself a tenant-in-chief of the king in 1088, and a holder of the large feudal barony whose caput was at Mulgrave, hence known as the barony of Mulgrave, which according to the Cartae Baronum return made in 1166 comprised 33 1/2 knight's fees.[3] The main approach was located on the west, with two stone towers overlooking the entrance.[1] Moats prohibited approach from the east and ensured that western approach was by means of a drawbridge.[4] Differing levels of land surrounding the containing walls caused the wall to bulge outwards, which required buttressing.[1] Some of the bricks used in the structure are clearly Roman.[1]
• Nigel Fossard's son Robert died c.1135, Robert's son William I d. c. 1170, leaving a son William II who died in 1195 leaving an heiress Joan, who brought the barony and castle to her husband Robert de Turnham (d.1211). Their only surviving child and heiress was Isabel de Turnham who brought the barony and castle to Peter de Mauley (or Maulay) (d.1241) to whom she had been granted in marriage by King John on the escheatment of the barony. De Mauley was a native of Poitou, whose marriage to this wealthy heiress is said to have been his reward for having murdered in 1203 Prince Arthur, the son of John's elder brother who threatened his succession to the throne.[5] He was governor of Corfe Castle in Dorset where he acted as jailer of Eleanor, Arthur's sister.[6] Peter I's heir was Peter II de Mauley (1226–1279), who married Joan de Brus (d.1243), one of five sisters of Peter III de Brus (d.1272), feudal baron of Skelton, Yorkshire, who was his brother-in-law, having married Hilary de Mauley, Peter II's sister.[7] In the time of Peter II the barony was held by knight service of supplying two knights in time of war in the king's presence for 40 days per annum.[8] Peter II's heir was Peter III de Mauley (d.1308), who married Nicole de Ghent (d. before 1302), sister and in her issue co-heir (in a 1/3rd share) to Gilbert V de Ghent (d.1298), feudal baron of Folkingham, Lincolnshire.[9] Peter III was summoned to parliament by writ dated 23 June 1296,[10] creating him the 1st Baron de Mauley.[11] Peter III's seal can be seen as one of 72 appended to the Barons' Letter, 1301 to the Pope"[12] sealed at the Parliament of Lincoln in January 1301, and shows him on the reverse in the usual pose for early seals holding sword and shield astride his galloping war-horse, with the tails of his surcoat swept back by the wind. His arms within a heater-shaped escutcheon show a bend with a field diapered with scroll-work, which are blazoned as borne by him on the Falkirk Roll (1298) as: Or, a bend sable.[13] His heir was Peter IV de Mauley (d.1348).[14] Camden states that the first Peter was succeeded by 7 others bearing his name.
• The castle passed to Sir John Bigot (c.1376-1426/7) of Settrington, Yorks.,[15] on his marriage to Constance de Mauley (c.1385-15/12/1450), eldest daughter & co-heiress of Peter VII de Mauley (d.1378), whose son Peter VIII had died in 1415 without issue, when the Barony de Mauley by writ became extinct. Bigot was 5th in descent from Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk (d.1225).
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• .... when Robert de Turnham obtained it by marrying Johanna, the daughter and heiress of Wm. Fossard. Isabella, daughter and heiress of the said Robert and Johanna, was given in marriage by king John to Peter de Mauley (Malo-lacu), a Pictovin, his esquire, who took possession of Mulgrave in 1214 or 1215, and probably built the castle that is now in ruins. There were 8 successive lords of the name Peter de Mauley, the last of whom died about the year 1415; when Mulgrave came by marriage unto the Bigod family, from whom it passed in the same way to the Radcliffes.* .... etc. _________________________
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• .... but he and his brother John, having fallen into the hands of Edward I, were both executed. The manor of Seton was conferred by Edward on Edmund de Mauley, son of the third Peter de Mauley of Mulgrave, who had distinguished himself in the Scottish wars: yet Edmund did not long enjoy his possession, for he fell in the battle of Bannockburn.†
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• .... The third Peter de
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• Mauley, lord of Mulgrave and Egton, wished to annex to his manor all that part of Whitby Strand which lies on the north-west side of the Esk. As a preliminary step, Mr. John of Tocotes, rector of Lyth, demanded the tithes of Ruswarp, Aislaby, Newholm, Dunsley, Stakesby, and other places in that territory, which he claimed as belonging to his rectory ; and when the inhabitants refused to comply, he seized the tithes with an armed force, in August, 1280; but, on the complaint of the convent, he was soon after obliged by the archbishop to make restitution. .... Worsted in this action, the rector appealed to Rome, hoping that he might finally succeed, by dint of the money and influence of Mauley. Judge- delegates, appointed by his holiness, met in 1283, to investigate the affair.* .... etc.
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• .... That it was public, notorious, and manifest to all those who lived in Whitby Strand, that the church of St. Mary at Whitby had from time immemorial, and as they verily believed from its first foundation, belonged to the abbot and convent of Whitby; who, in right thereof, had ever received tithes from all those places which were now claimed by John of Tocotes and lord Peter de Malo-lacu." On the other hand, the rector's witnesses swore positively, That the manor of Mulgrave extended to the river Eske." .... etc.
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• .... the cause, it appears, was remitted to the court of Rome, who finally decided in favour of the abbey, and condemned lord Mauley and his rector to pay the expenses of the law-suit.*
• .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/ahistorywhitbya00youngoog#page/n457/mode...
• Pg.431
• .... by the liberality of Johanna, daughter of William Fossard, and wife of Robert de Turnham. This lady was heiress to the estates of the Fossard family, at Mulgrave, Egton, and other places ; which descended to her daughter
• https://archive.org/stream/ahistorywhitbya00youngoog#page/n458/mode...
• Pg.432
• Isabella, and came by her to the Mauley family, on her marriage with the first Peter de Mauley. Johanna, by her charter, granted to the prior and brethren of the order of Grandimont in France (a branch of the Benedictines), a mansion in the forest of Egton, to be a cell to their monastery. .... _________________________

Piers de Malo Lacu.

Governor of Corfe Castle as of July 8, 1213.

Jailer of Eleanor, sister of Prince Arthur of Brittany.

Hugh, Kendall P. History of the Old Castle of Mulgrave. A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., Hull. 1948. pp. 23-31.

He was a favorite of then Prince John of England, and possibly committed the murder of John's nephew Arthur, for which John awarded him with the heiress Isabel.

Or died 1222?

Was a favourite of the then Prince John of England, and possibly committed the murder of John's nephew Arthur, for which John awarded him with the heiress Isabel.

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PETER DE MALO LACU, otherwise called Peter de Manley, a native of Poictou, and Esquire to the king, who had engaged Him to assassinate Prince Arthur, to clear the way for his own accession to the Throne.

To this Peter, succeeded, according to Camden, seven others of the same Christian name in succession, until the reign of Henry the fifth, when the estates were conveyed by an heiress into the family of BIGOD, and next, by another, into that of RADCLIFFE.

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A Poitevin.

Built Mulgrave Castle Nr Witby.