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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.
[1]
[2] 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.
[3] Some records indicate that Geoffrey de Mandeville was from
Thil-Manneville, in
Seine-Maritime,
Haute-Normandy (upper Normandy).
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[4]
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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.
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References
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d K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999) pp. 226–7
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^ Ronald Sutherland Gower, The Tower of London, Vol. ii (George Bell & Sons, 1902), p. 179
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^
http://www.villages76.com/pagesmannevillette/ecolehistorique.html#histoire
Archived 2015-02-15 at the
Wayback Machine Mannevillette History (in French)
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^ Lewis Christopher Loyd, The origins of some Anglo-Norman Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1999) pp. 57–8
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^ Alexander Malet, The Conquest of England, (Bell and Daldy, London, 1860) p. 191 n. 18
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^ J. H. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, (Longmans, Green, 1892), p. 37
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^ David C. Douglas,William the Conqueror (University of California Press, 1964). p. 297
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^ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. V (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1926), pp. 113–16
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b K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999) p. 227
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^ J. H. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, (Longmans, Green, 1892), p. 38
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^ K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999), p. 194
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^ K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999), p. 229
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^ Ann Williams, G.H. Martin, Domesday Book; A Complete Translation, (Penguin Books, 1992) p. 85
Additional references
- Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Line 158A-23.