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Geoffrey de Morton : ウィキペディア英語版 | Geoffrey de Morton Geoffrey de Morton (died c.1317) was a wealthy merchant and shipowner in fourteenth-century Dublin who served as Mayor of Dublin in 1303. He acquired an unsavoury reputation for unscrupulous business methods and corruption, and was responsible for the murage controversy of 1308-1313. ==Early career==
According to Elrington Ball he came from a prominent Anglo-Norman family which had settled in Dublin. He made his wealth by trading with England, Scotland and France.〔Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' John Murray London 1926 Vol.1 p.27〕 Presumably his wealth was the reason he was chosen as Mayor, but controversy began almost immediately when he was accused of stealing the official seal of Dublin Corporation for his own use. Geoffrey insisted that it was not he but his wife who had taken the seal, and the Corporation seem to have accepted this, although what possible motive his wife might have had for the theft is unclear. In 1305 he brought a series of lawsuits against Richard de Beresford, Lord Treasurer of Ireland and the Barons of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland). The Barons brought a series of counter-claims which were successful, and as a result Geoffrey was briefly imprisoned.
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