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Magna Charta Baron Page for Geoffrey De Mandeville Earl of Essex and Gloucester
WURTS MAGNA CHARTA provided a brief accounting of the feudal headquarters of some
of the Magna Charta Barons. Some of the castles have been badly damaged. Some have
disappeared entirely. Often we can learn of them through Medieval and Renaissance
accounts, and some of them require the discerning eye of the archeologist. Others await
the evidence brought out with a shovel and pick, by the trained archeological historian.
A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron GEOFFREY de MANDEVILLE is as
follows:
GEOFFREY de MANDEVILLE, the Surety, upon paying King John 20,000 marks, obtained a
license in 1214 to marry Avisa or Isabella, daughter of William, Count of Meullent, who
had first been King John's wife, but who was repudiated in 1200 because of consanguinity,
since both the King and Queen were great grandchildren of King Henry I. Geoffrey died two
years after their marriage, and Avisa was promised to Hubert de Burgh, but the marriage
never took place, and she died without issue. In right of his wife Geoffrey de Mandeville
became Earl of Gloucester, and was placed in full possession of all the liberties
belonging to this Earldom and to the lordship of Glamorgan in Wales. He was one of the
wealthiest of the Barons opposed to King John. He was excommunicated for adhering to the
Barons' party. His life was short. He was mortally wounded in a tournament in London in
February 1216, and died 23 February, without issue. He was interred in the Priory of the
Holy Trinity in the suburbs of the City.
He was succeeded by his brother William de Mandeville, who also took the part of the
Barons and maintained it, even after the death of King John, for he had assisted Louis of
France in the siege of Berkamstead Castle, which was occupied by the King's forces.
William died without issue 8 January 1227, when the Earldom of Essex devolved upon his
sister, Maud Bohun, Countess of Hereford, while the lands which he inherited passed to his
half brother, John FitzGeoffrey, whose wife was Isabel Bigod, widow of Gilbert de Lacie
and daughter of Hugh Bigod, the Surety.
Geoffrey de Mandeville's Castle at Gloucester is nothing but a city jail, yet once it
was a Saxon Castle and later a Norman stronghold.
Appreciation is expressed to Reed M. W. Wurts, one of the Heralds of the Society for
furnishing the Barons Shield on this page.
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