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Geoffrey FitzPiers E of Essex

• Death: 14 OCT 1213

• Reference: 3354

1. Geoffrey de MANDEVILLE* E of Essex
2. Maud of Essex

• Marriage: BEF 29 MAY 1205

1. John FitzGeoffrey Justiciar of Ireland

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Notes

Essex by right of his first wife and was Justiciar of England 1198-1213.

Also mentioned (72:29), (97:27).

Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Essex, pp. 122-125). He was a Justice of

the Forest 1185-1189, sheriff at various times of of Northants, Essex,

Herts, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland, Bedford, and Bucks. In

1198 he defeated the Welsh at Castle Maud. Along with Archbishop

Hubert and WILLIAM MARSHAL, EARL OF PEMBROKE (RIN 806), he

persuaded the magnates to swear fealty to KING JOHN (RIN 785).

"Todd A. Farmerie" posted to the

soc.genealogy.medieval newsgroup on 2 Jul 1996 :

Subject: MANDEVILLE/Earldom of Essex descent

The two most recent editions of the Weis books (MCS4 and ARCC7)

show Geoffrey Fitz Piers, Earl of Essex as son of Maud de Mandeville,

daughter of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. I suspect that the

derivation of this claim is a misreading of a table in CP, vol. 5 (Essex),

where the parents of Fitz Piers, Piers and Maud (as well as Maud's other

husband), are placed under the horizontal line connecting the children of

Geoffrey de Mandeville, but without a verticle connection to that line. (In

other words, they were tucked in there for the sake of spacial layout,

without intending to suggest a relationship.)

The accepted and documented descent of the Earldom of Essex to

Geoffrey Fitz Piers runs through his first wife, Beatrice de Say, who

was granddaughter of Beatrice, sister of Geoffrey de Mandeville. That

this descent was the determining factor in the grant of Essex to

Geoffrey Fitz Piers can be seen from the passing of Essex to de Bohun

following the death of the sons of Geoffrey Fitz Piers and Beatrice de

Say, bypassing Geoffrey's heir male, John Fitz Geoffrey, son by his

second wife Avelina de Clare. Were there a "better" descent from

Mandeville through the mother of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, then John Fitz

Geoffrey surely would have been the heir. Based on this, I do not think

Maud, mother of Geoffrey Fitz Piers could have been daughter of Geoffrey

de Mandeville.