Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century)

Geoffrey de Mandeville alias de Magnaville (Latinized to: de Magna Villa ("from the great town")), (died c. 1100), Constable of the Tower of London.[1][2] He was a Norman from Magna Villa in the Duchy of Normandy. There are a number of communes that were anciently referred to as Magna Villa such as Manneville-la-Goupil, Mannevillette[3] and others. Some records may indicate he was from today's Thil-Manneville, in Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandy (upper Normandy).[1][4][5]

Life

An important Domesday tenant-in-chief, de Mandeville was one of the ten richest magnates of the reign of William the Conqueror. William granted him large estates, primarily in Essex, but in ten other shires as well.[6] He served as the first sheriff of London and Middlesex,[7] and perhaps also in Essex, and in Hertfordshire. He was the progenitor of the de Mandeville Earls of Essex.[8] About 1085 he and Lescelina, his second wife, founded Hurley Priory as a cell of Westminster Abbey.[9][10]

Family

He married firstly, Athelaise (Adeliza) (d. bef. 1085),[9] by whom he had:

He married secondly Lescelina, by whom he had no children.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999) pp. 226–7
  2. Ronald Sutherland Gower, The Tower of London, Vol. ii (George Bell & Sons, 1902), p. 179
  3. http://www.villages76.com/pagesmannevillette/ecolehistorique.html#histoire Mannevillette History (in French)
  4. Lewis Christopher Loyd, The origins of some Anglo-Norman Famillies, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1999) pp. 57–8
  5. Alexander Malet, The Conquest of England, (Bell and Daldy, London, 1860) p. 191 n. 18
  6. J. H. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, (Longmans, Green, 1892), p. 37
  7. David C. Douglas,William the Conqueror (University of California Press, 1964). p. 297
  8. George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. V (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1926), pp. 113–16
  9. 1 2 K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999) p. 227
  10. J. H. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, (Longmans, Green, 1892), p. 38
  11. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999), p. 194
  12. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999), p. 229
  13. Ann Williams, G.H. Martin, Domesday Book; A Complete Translation, (Penguin Books, 1992) p. 85

Additional references

Peerage of England
Preceded by
Unknown
Constable of the Tower of London
1086–1100
Succeeded by
William de Mandeville
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