General Notes

BARONY OF MAULEY (I)

PIERS DE MAULEY the Third, son and heir by 2nd wife, born 22 July 1249. In 1277 he was summoned to perform military service in person against Llewelyn, acknowledging the service of 2 knights' fees, and was similarly summoned in 1282 and 1283. On 28 June 1283 he was summoned to attend the assembly to be held at Shrewsbury on 30 September. On 21 August 1279, the King's steward was ordered to deliver to him his father's lands, as he had rendered homage. In 1282, described as Petrus tercius, he quitclaimed to Whitby Abbey the manors of Dunsley, Newholm, and Stakesby and other property in and near Whitby, in termination of a dispute about the boundaries of his manors of Mulgrave and Egton. In 1283 his presentee was instituted to the church of Lockington. On 13 May 1285 he had licence to alienate in mortmain to the priory of Grosmont in Eskdale land of the yearly value of 20£. in Blakehou moor. On 15 July 1287 he was summoned to a military council at Gloucester, and shortly afterwards made an agreement with Edmund de Mortimer of Wigmore to attend him in the war in Wales against Rhys ap Meredith. In 1291 he was summoned to be at Norham on 3 June for military service against the Scots, and he had letters of protection until Christmas for staying in Scotland. In 1294 he was summoned to perform military service in person in Gascony, and to be at the military council at Worcester on 21 November for service against the Welsh. He was summoned to Parliement from 24 June 1295 to 11 June 1309, by writs directed Petro de Malolacu, whereby he is held to have become LORD MAULEY. On 21 August 1297 he was granted, for his services in Gascony, the marriage of Thomas de Multon, of Gilsland, and in 1299 he was released from being a hostage in London by reason of his debt to the merchants of Bayonne for expenses incurred by him in Gascony. In the same year he was summoned again for military service ainst the Scots. As Petrus de Malo Lacu, dominus de Mulgreve, he took part in the Barons' Letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/1. In 1305 and from 1306 to 1308 he was appointed to various commissions of oyer and terminer.

He married, in or before 1273, Nichole, sister of Gilbert DE GAUNT [LORD GAUNT], and 2nd daughter and coheir of Sir Gilbert DE GAUNT, of Folkingham, &c., co. Lincoln, and Healaugh, co. York. She is said to have died in 1284, and been buried in Hazlewood chapel, near Tadcastcr. He died 6 September 1308.  [Complete Peerage VIII:560-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]