General Notes

MULTON OF EGREMONT or EGREMOND

This family derived its name from Moulton, near Spalding, in Lincolnshire,

LAMBERT DE MULTON, its earliest recorded ancestor, descended at least on one side from English thegns. In 1142 or 1143 he held 2 carucates of land in Revesby of William (de Roumare), Earl of Lincoln, by the service of 1/4 knight's fee, as grandson (and heir) of Brictive, and an oxgang of land under Robert, his wife's father. For these lands the Earl gave him an exchange in Miningsby, near Bolingbroke, and in or before 1155 granted to Spalding Priory Lambert's service for the land in Miningsby. Lambert held land in Moulton from the prior's manor of Spalding, 1/2 knight's fee of the new feoffment in Bourne of the Earl of Lincoln, a lordship in Frankton, land in Weston, and land in Skirbeck and Kirkton from Conan, Earl of Richmond, whose charter to Kirkstead Abbey he witnessed at "Wasingburg." Between 1154 and 1156 he witnessed a charter of Gilbert (de Gand), Earl of Lincoln, to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. In 1165 he rendered account in Lincs of an amercement of 100 marks, and in the following year Thomas, his son, accounted for him.

He married a daughter of Robert (----), presumably of Norman blood, possibly Robert BRIWER. He was living in 1166, but the date of his death is not known. He was buried in Spalding Priory.  [Complete Peerage IX:396-8, XIV:493, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger}]