General Notes

Sir Piers de Mauley, Lord Mauley of Mulgrave Castle, b. 1330, age 24+ at father's death, d. 20 Mar 1382/3; m. bef. 18 Nov 1356 Elizabeth de Meinill.  [Magna Charta Sureties]

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BARONY OF MAULEY (IV)

PIERS DE MAULEY the Sixth, LORD MAULEY, son and heir, was aged 24 and more at his father's death. On 23 March 1354/5 the escheator in co. York was ordered to deliver to Piers de Mauley le sysme, he having done homage, a 4th part of the manor of Kilnwick by Watton, co. York, which his father Piers de Mauley le quynt held in chief on the day of his death; and on 20 September he was summoned to Parliament by writ directed Petro de Malo Lacu le sisme. In 1357 he was styled chivaler. In 1361 he and others were pardoned for their part in the death of two persons for which they had been indicted. In 1366 and later years he was a commissioner of array; in June 1367 the custody of the town of Berwick was committed to him, and in September he was appointed a conservator of the truce in the Scottish Marches. In May 1368 he was made one of the wardens of the East March. On 9 October 1371 he had licence to settle lands in Kilnwick, &c., on himself and Constance his wife. In 1377 he was indicted for sheltering felons, but was not to be arrested. In 1375 and later years he was on the commission of the peace. On the death of his mother in 1382 he came into possession of Mulgrave.

He married, 1stly, before 18 November 1356, Elizabeth, widow of John, LORD DARCY (died 5 March 1355/6), and daughter and heir of Nicholas, LORD MEINILL or MENILLE, by Alice, daughter of William (DE Ros), LORD Ros, of Helmsley. She, who was born 15 October 1331, died 9 July 1368. He married, 2ndly, in or before 1371, Constance (elder sister of his son's wife), daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas DE SUTTON [3rd Lord Sutton of Holderness], of Bransholme Castle and Sutton in Holderness, by Agnes his wife. He died 19 or 20 March 1382/3. Will, directing his burial to be in the church of the Friars Minor at Doncaster, dated 8 March 1381/2, at his manor of Berg by Watton, co. York. On 28 April 1383 the escheator was ordered to take the fealty of Constance, widow of Piers de Mauley the Sixth, Knight, and to assign her dower. She married, before December 1384, without licence, Sir John GODARD, Knight, and dower from the Mauley lands was assigned to her. She died 9 June 1401.  [Complete Peerage VIII:567-8, XIV:471, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]