Robinson, 44, signed correspondence as Lord Robinson of Murton, changed his passport and opened a bank account with the title in a bid to elevate his reputation.
Lord Robinson and his associates then stole the identities of homeowners to apply for mortgages on five homes across the country.
The operation was discovered when Robinson and his associates took out a £525,699 mortgage with the Bank of Ireland in April 2008 on a property belonging to French banker Aymeric Charles Badoy living in London.
Mark Guiliani, prosecuting, said: “They used Mr Badoy’s identity because they thought he wouldn’t notice a few thousand [in mortgage repayments] going out of his bank account. In fact, he noticed straight away.”
Between 2007 and 2008, Robinson and his team made applications for £2,200,397 on five properties in the Midlands and the South-East of which £1,775,649 was paid out.
Guiliani said: “To date £1,295,804 of that money has not been recovered.”
Rashad Mohammed, acting for Robinson, said his client had been enticed by others to commit the mortgage fraud.
Robinson admitted conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy to convert criminal property, two counts of making false representations and a breach of a court order.
He also pleaded guilty to two offences of fraud by false representation and using fuel cards to buy tens of thousands of pounds of petrol.
Robinson was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to six years and three months and given a three-month concurrent sentence for contempt of court by breaching a restraining order on his finances.
Recorder Michael Taylor said: “You had a Walter Mitty sort of existence. You purported to be a lord of the land.
“That was to try and impress people, to try and convince them and try and present yourself as different to what you really were, which is a crook.”
Eight other defendants from Birmingham, the South and the North-East were also jailed for a total of 17 years and six months in what Judge Michael Taylor described as a “spider’s web” with Robinson in the middle.
