Geoffrey de Langley

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Geoffrey de Langley (* 1223 , † September 22, 1274 ) was a Vogt of the English King Henry III.

Life

Geoffrey de Langley was one of the long-serving advisers and bailiffs of Henry III, a group that can be described as the embryonic colonial service (proto-colonial administration). He acquired cash and retirement income through marriage. With these funds he bought from March 5, 1243 to January 20, 1245 the estate with two mills from Henry d'Aubigny senior, who had gotten into financial difficulties and guilty responsibility in Salisbury through the marriage of his son . On March 4, 1250 Geoffrey de Langley Knight , legal advisor and forest judge of Henry III. For his inaugural tour in this function, he is accused of cunning, ruthless and violent extraction of hardly credible sums, especially from the nobility of the northern provinces of England.

On December 26, 1251, the ten-year-old Scottish King Alexander III married. in York Margaret of England, a daughter of Henry III. The latter on this occasion granted him fealty in relation to Alexander's property in England. When Heinrich III. also feudal loyalty for his property in Scotland from Alexander III. demanded, the latter replied that he was invited to York to get married and not to negotiate state affairs. But he admitted Heinrich III. the right to send a confidential counselor to Scotland. Geoffrey de Langley had earned a bad reputation as a royal henchman in the forest administration through his strict administration when Henry III. in this capacity sent to Scotland, where he was soon expelled from the country by the Scottish nobility.

From 1254 to 1257 Geoffrey de Langley Estates was Henry III's steward , the real estate trustee of the fiefs inside and outside England. On 13 December 1254 he was appointed as governor of Prince I. Edward called. On the instructions of Heinrich III. he tried to enforce the feudal right to Perfeddwlad in Wales , which led to an uprising in November 1256. That Geoffrey de Langley as Vogt of Henry III. had been expelled from Scotland, encouraged Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester to a rebellion against his brother-in-law Henry III. - on the Second War of the Barons (1264–1267). In 1264 Heinrich III. Geoffrey de Langley to the office of Constables and Governors of Windsor Castle .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cybergata.com
  2. ^ Peter Coss, Simon Lloyd, Thirteenth Century England: I , Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1985, p. 92 f.
  3. ↑ Peter Coss, Lordship, knighthood, and locality: a study in English society, c. 1180-c. 1280 , p. 115 ff.
  4. ^ Helen M. Jewell, The North - South divide: the origins of northern consciousness in England, p. 39
  5. ^ Charles MacFarlane, Thomas Thomson, The comprehensive history of England: civil and military, religious intellectual and soial Volume 1, p. 413
  6. ^ TH Aston, Landlords, Peasants and Politics in Medieval England, p. 193
  7. ^ Peter Coss, Simon Lloyd, Proceedings of the , p. 93
  8. ^ David Walker, Medieval Wales , p. 113
  9. ↑ Thomas Frederick Tout, The collected papers of Thomas Frederick Tout: with a memoir and bibliography , p. 56
personal data
SURNAME Langley, Geoffrey de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English bailiff
DATE OF BIRTH 1223
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1274