Geoffrey de Mandeville (constable)

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Geoffrey de Mandeville († around 1100 ) was constable of the Tower from the Mandeville family .

Its name refers to the place (Thil-) Manneville ( Magnavilla , Mannevilla ). He was one of the important landowners listed in the Domesday Book and one of the great magnates of the time of King William I , who had enfeoffed him with extensive estates, especially in Essex and ten other counties. He served as sheriff in London and Middlesex , presumably also in Essex and Hertfordshire .

Geoffrey de Mandeville entered into two marriages, the first to Athelaise (Adeliza), the second to Lescelina. From his first marriage he had a son, William de Mandeville , who became his heir, and a daughter, Beatrix, who married Geoffroi de Boulogne, Lord of Carshalton , probably an illegitimate son of Count Eustach II of Boulogne and thus a half-brother of Gottfried of Bouillon , Eustach III. of Boulogne and King Baldwin I of Jerusalem ( House of Boulogne ). The second marriage was childless.

Geoffrey and Lescelina are the founders of Hurley Abbey as an offshoot of Westminster Abbey .

See also: Companion of Wilhelm the Conqueror

literature

  • Lewis Christopher Loyd: The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families. Eds. Charles Travis Clay, David Charles Douglas. Whitehead, Leeds 1951. ( online here )

Footnotes

  1. ↑ see Loyd, p. 57 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Mandeville, Geoffrey de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman, constable of the Tower of London
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1100