General Notes

RICHARD DE LUCY, son and heir, in 1200 gave 300 marks for his relief and to have his inheritance in Copeland and Cambs, and for leave to marry where he would; also for the portions of the lands of his mother Amabel held by his aunt Alice, then wife of Robert de Courtenai, and his cousin Hawise, Countess of Aumale. He was one of the magnates who in 1201 refused personal service overseas with King John, and paid 15 marks in lieu thereof. About 1202 he granted a release of "duretol" in Allerdale. In 1204 he and his wife Ada obtained a charter to them and her heirs of the forestership of Cumberland, as formerly held by her father, without partition to her sister Joan, and of the esnecia of the said Ada. Both he and his wife were benefactors of the monasteries of St.. Bees, Wetheral and Calder.

He married (1200-1204) Ada, eldest daughter and coheir of Hugh DE MORVILL, forester of Cumberland and lord of the Border barony of Burgh. He died s.p.m., early in 1213, and was bur. in the priory of St. Bees. Before 10 March 1217/18, his widow had married Thomas DE MULTON, of Multon, near Spalding, who, within a few months of the death of Richard de Lucy, had offered 1,000 marks for the custody and marriage of his daughters and heirs; these two daughters he married to his two sons by a former marriage--vix. Amabel, the elder, to his son Lambert, and Alice, the younger, to his son Alan de Multon. Ada, the relict of Richard dc Lucy, was living in 1230.  [Complete Peerage VIII:248-9, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]