Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century)

Template:Use dmy dates Geoffrey de Mandeville (died c. 1100), also known as de Magnaville (from the Latin de Magna Villa "of the great town"), was a Constable of the Tower of London.<ref name="Keats" >K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999) pp. 226–7</ref><ref>Ronald Sutherland Gower, The Tower of London, Vol. ii (George Bell & Sons, 1902), p. 179</ref> Mandeville was a Norman, from one of several places that were known as Magna Villa in the Duchy of Normandy. These included the modern communes of Manneville-la-Goupil and Mannevillette.<ref>http://www.villages76.com/pagesmannevillette/ecolehistorique.html#histoire Template:Webarchive Mannevillette History (in French)</ref> Some records indicate that Geoffrey de Mandeville was from Thil-Manneville, in Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandy (upper Normandy).<ref name="Keats" /><ref>Lewis Christopher Loyd, The origins of some Anglo-Norman Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1999) pp. 57–8</ref><ref>Alexander Malet, The Conquest of England, (Bell and Daldy, London, 1860) p. 191 n. 18</ref>

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.<ref>J. H. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, (Longmans, Green, 1892), p. 37</ref> He served as the first sheriff of London and Middlesex,<ref>David C. Douglas,William the Conqueror (University of California Press, 1964). p. 297</ref> and perhaps also in Essex, and in Hertfordshire. He was the progenitor of the de Mandeville Earls of Essex.<ref>George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. V (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1926), pp. 113–16</ref> About 1085 he and Lescelina, his second wife, founded Hurley Priory by the River Thames in Berkshire, as a cell of Westminster Abbey.<ref name="KR227">K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999) p. 227</ref><ref>J. H. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, (Longmans, Green, 1892), p. 38</ref>

Family

He married firstly, Athelaise (Adeliza) (d. bef. 1085),<ref name="KR227"/> by whom he had:

• William de Mandeville (d. bef. 1130), married Margaret dau. of Eudo, dapifer, who m. 2ndly Otuer fitz Count.<ref>K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999), p. 194</ref>
• Beatrice de Mandeville, m. Godfrey fitz Eustace, natural son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne.<ref>K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999), p. 229</ref> Geoffrey was Lord of Carshalton, Surrey<ref>Ann Williams, G.H. Martin, Domesday Book; A Complete Translation, (Penguin Books, 1992) p. 85</ref>
• Walter, who was also one of his tenants in 1086.<ref name="Keats" />

He married secondly Lescelina, by whom he had no children.<ref name="Keats" />

Additional references

• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Line 158A-23.