Assumed his surname from chief place of residence, an elevation in the co. of Flint, where he erected a castle. Was steward to the Earl of Chester & one of his barons.
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Maude/Monhault (both names being variations of Montalt, itself referring to the hill of Mold, Flintshire, from which the family took on of its titles in the form of Montalt when ennobled). [Burke's Peerage, p. 1342, on Constantine Maude, ancestor of the Viscounts of Hawarden, Tipperary, and descendant of the Mohauts]
Other names are Mohaut, Monte Alto, and Mowat (Scotland), as well as Maude and Monhault above.
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