Image: Coat of arms of Sir Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, KG

Description: Coat of arms of Sir Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, KG, as seen on his surviving Garter stall plate in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and as sculpted on his chest tomb at Lanercost Priory, Cumbria[1]: Quarterly of 4: 1: Gules, three escallops argent (Dacre); 2: Chequy or and gules (Vaux of Gilsland, Cumberland); 3: Argent, two bars gules on a canton of the last a lion passant guardant or (de Lancaster, feudal barons of Kendal); 4: Azure semée-de-lis and fretty or (Morvill (hereditary Forester of Cumberland)) (Cokayne, G. E.; H. A. Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden, eds. (1936). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times (Moels to Nuneham), Vol. 9 (2nd ed.), London: The St. Catherine Press , pp.401, 405-6, re Baron Multon) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.710). Thomas de Multon (d.1240) of Egremont married secondly Ada de Morvill, elder daughter and co-heiress of Hugh de Morvill, hereditary Forester of Cumberland, and widow of Richard de Lucy (d.1213). (Complete Peerage, 9, pp.401, 405). The eldest son of Thomas de Multon (d.1240) of Egremont and Ada de Morvill was Thomas de Multon of Gilsland (d.1271) ("Thomas the Forester") who married Maud de Vaux, daughter and heiress of Hubert de Vaux of Gilsland. The great-grandson of Thomas de Multon of Gilsland (d.1271) ("Thomas the Forester") and Maud de Vaux was w:Thomas de Multon, 1st Baron Multon of Gilsland (c.1282–1313), whose daughter and heiress w:Margaret de Multon, 2nd Baroness Multon of Gilsland (d. 1361) married William Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, 3rd Baron Multon of Gilsland (c.1319–1361)
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