D. DACRE, sometime (1412) DACRE DE GILLESLAND, and sub- sequently, (1539), DACRE DE SOUTH ; generally known (1459-1G34) as Dacre of the South. Barony by 1. Ralph Dacre of Gillesland co. Cumberland, s. and Writ. • "f Gillian* Dacre( a ) of Dacre, co. Cumberland, by Joane, da. and h. of Benedict Gernet, having in. in 1317, Margaret, only da. and b. of I. 1321. Thomas (De Multon), Lord Melton de Gillesland, by Margaret his wife, acquired with her (who was aged 13 on her Father's death in 1313), a vast estate and was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD DACRE) by writs 16 May (1321), 14 Ed. II., to 15 Nov. (1338), 12 Ed. III.(t>) Sheriff of Cumberland and Gov. of Carlisle, 1330. He d. 1339. H13 widow(<=) d. Dec. 1361. II. 1339. 2. William (Dacre), Lord Dacre, s. and h., aged 20 in 1339. He was sum. to Pail. 25 Nov. (1350), 24 Ed. III., to 20 Nov. (1360), 34 Ed. III. He was in the Scottish wars. He m Katharine, who survived him. He d. s.p. July 1361. III. 1361. 3. Ralph (Dacre), Lord Dacre, br. and h., aged 40 and Rector of the church of Prestcotes, in 1361. He was sum. to Pari. 14 Aug. (1362), 36 Ed. III., to 4 Oct (1373), 47 Ed. III. He also was in the Scottish wars. He d, unm. Aug. 1375. IV. 137. r ). 4- Hugh (Dacre Lord Dacre, br. and h., aged 40 in 1375. He was sum. to ParL I Dec. (1376), 50 Ed. III., to 20 Aug. (1383), 7 Ric. II. He served in the French and Flemish wars, and was one of the commissioners of the Western Marches. He m. Ela, or Elizabeth, da. of Alexander (or Sir John) Maxwell of Scotland. He d. Dec. 1383.( d ) (") Dugdale states that this William was sum. to Pari, as a Baron from 28 Ed. I. to 2 Ed. II., but the first who was so sum. appears to have been Ralph, as in the text. ( b ) The Barony is under the title of Dacre, only, tho' probably conferred in right of the marriage with the heiress of Gillesland. (°) She, according to the now received theory, would have been auo jure Baroness Multon de Gillesland, which Barony (1307) would (if allowed) descend with that of Dacre. See p. 2, note " c." ( d ) In 1380 he styled himself "Hugh Dacre, Lord of GilleBland.*'— See " Coll. Top. et Gen." vol. v. 318 note " f." where his Coat of Arms, as differenced, is mentioned. B
