Geoffrey II de Mandeville^[1]

- 1144

• Name	Geoffrey II de Mandeville
  Birth	Great Waltham, Essex, England
  Gender	Male
  Name	Geoffrey de Mandeville  [2]
  Death	14 Sep 1144	Mildenhall, Suffolk, England   [3]
  Burial	The Temple Church, London, Middlesex, England   [4]
  Person ID	I22962	Master
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2017

  
  

  Family	Rohese de Vere   d. Aft 21 Oct 1166
  Marriage	Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F5974	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - - Great Waltham, Essex, England Death - 14 Sep 1144 - Mildenhall, Suffolk, England Burial - - The Temple Church, London, Middlesex, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  KINSHIP: Son and heir (some question as to whether Margaret de RIE was his mother) - see 'The Complete Peerage', vol. 5 p. 113-114. CHURCH: Founded the Abbey of Walden. OFFICE: Hereditary Constable of the Tower of London. OFFICE: Hereditary Sheriff of Essex. OFFICE: Chief Justice of Essex. TITLES: Created Earl of Essex, 1140. TITLES: Forfeiture>The Earldom of Essex was forfeited, 1144, POLITICS: Drove the rebels from the Isle of Ely, early in 1142. RESIDENCE: Of Great Waltham, Essex {Great Waltham, Essex, England}. RESIDENCE: Of Saffron Walden, Essex {Saffron Walden, Essex, England}. RESIDENCE: Of High Easter, Essex {High Easter, Essex, England}. RESIDENCE: Of Pleshey, Essex {Pleshey, Essex, England}. RESIDENCE: Of Edmonton, Middlesex {Edmonton, Middlesex, England}. RESIDENCE: Of Enfield, Middlesex {Enfield, Middlesex, England}. RESIDENCE: Of Sawbridgeworth, Herts {Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England}. RESIDENCE: Of Quarrendon, Bucks {Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, England}. RESIDENCE: Of Amersham, Bucks {Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England}. RESIDENCE: Of Streatley, Berks {Streatley, Berkshire, England}. RESIDENCE: Of Long Compton, co. Warwick {Long Compton, Warwickshire, England}. PUNISHMENT: Imprisoned> Arrested for a treason accusation, about 1143 - imprisoned till he surrendered his castles (the Tower, Walden, Pleshey), in lieu of being hanged. INFAMY: Seized and fortified the Abbey of Ramsey; sacked Cambridge; ravaged the fen country; besieged Burwell Castle, co. Cambridge, where he was mortally wounded, Aug 1144. DEATH: Cause> Mortally wounded by an arrow, when besieging Burwell Castle, co. Cambridge, Aug 1144. DEATH: Date> 14 or 16 Sep 1144. BURIAL: Place> After death, his body was taken by the Knights Templars to their Old Temple in Holborn, but as he had died under excommunication, could not receive Christian burial till absolution was granted in 1163. He was then buried in the New Temple Church.

  
  

• Sources

  [S701] Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, (Royal Ancestry Series. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2005), vol. 5 p. 113-116, FHL book 942 D5rdm; FHL book 942 D5rdm. [S701] Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, (Royal Ancestry Series. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2005), vol. 4 appndx. H chart I; vol. 5 p. 113, 114 fn. (b), between p. 116 and 117, 122 fn. (b); vol. 11 p. 465, FHL book 942 D5rdm; FHL book 942 D5rdm. [S701] Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, (Royal Ancestry Series. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2005), vol. 4 appndx. H chart I; vol. 5 p. 116, between p. 116 and 117, FHL book 942 D5rdm; FHL book 942 D5rdm. [S701] Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, (Royal Ancestry Series. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2005), vol. 5 p. 116, 116 fn. (c), FHL book 942 D5rdm; FHL book 942 D5rdm.