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Persönliche Daten Geoffrey de Mandeville 1st Earl of Essex 

• Er wurde geboren rund 1092 in Rycott, Oxfordshire, England, Great Britain.Quellen 1, 4
• Fetauft (im Alter von 8 Jahren oder später) von der Priestertumsvollmacht der HLT-Kirche am 19. April 1933.
• Beruf: 1st Earl of Essex.Quellen 1, 4
• Er ist verstorben am 14. September 1144 in Mildenhall, Suffolk, England, Great Britain.Quellen 1, 4
• Ein Kind von William de Mandeville und Margaret de Rie
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 25. Februar 2023.

Familie von Geoffrey de Mandeville 1st Earl of Essex

(1) Er ist verheiratet mit Rohese de Vere.

Sie haben geheiratet.

Kind(er):

1. Annora de Mandeville  ± 1122-???? 
2. Maud de Mandeville  ± 1138-± 1176 
3. Ernulf de Mandeville  ± 1140-1178
4. Geoffrey de Mandeville  ± 1142-1166
5. William de Mandeville  ± 1144-1189 
6. Robert de Mandeville  ± 1146-1189

(2) Er ist verheiratet mit Nn Nn.

Sie haben geheiratet.

Kind(er):

1. Alice de Mandeville  < 1144-± 1190 

Notizen bei Geoffrey de Mandeville 1st Earl of Essex

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Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex
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Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex (1st Creation) (d. Sept. 1144) was one of the prominent players during the reign of King Stephen of England. His biographer, the 19th-century historian J. H. Round, called him "the most perfect and typical presentment of the feudal and anarchic spirit that stamps the reign of Stephen." That characterization has been disputed in the twentieth century.

He succeeded his father, William, sometime before 1130. A key portion of the family patrimony was in the king's hands, as William had incurred Henry I's displeasure and lost them, along with his office as constable of the Tower of London. The king also held the substantial estate of Geoffrey's maternal grandfather Eudo Dapifer to which Geoffrey laid claim.

Geoffrey's goal in the early years of strife between Stephen and Maud seems to have been to recover these lost lands. He succeeded in this, during the shifting tides of fortunes of the two competitors for the English throne, by bidding his support to first one, then the other.

He started out supporting Stephen, who sometime in 1140 (or perhaps December 1139) made him Earl of Essex in reward for his services against Maud. In 1140 or 1141 Stephen returned to him the seized estates in Essex. In 1141 he was also appointed custodian of the Tower of London.

After the defeat and capture of Stephen at Lincoln (1141) the earl, like many barons, acknowledged Maud as his sovereign lady. She confirmed his custody of the Tower, forgave the large debts his father had incurred to the crown, granted him the Norman lands of Eudo Dapifer, and appointed him sheriff of Essex, Middlesex and London, and Hertfordshire. But before the end of the year, learning that Stephen's release was imminent, he returned to his original allegiance. In 1142 he may have been intriguing with the empress; he rebelled when he was deprived of his castles by the king in 1143. There has been a serious debate over the dating of the charters he received from Stephen and Matilda; depending on the order and timing, Geoffrey appears to have been playing off one against the other to get what he wanted or was courted by the rival claimants to the throne for his support.

In 1143-1144 Geoffrey maintained himself as a rebel and a bandit in the fen-country, using the Isle of Ely and Ramsey Abbey as his headquarters. He was besieged by Stephen, and met his death in September 1144 in consequence of an arrow wound received in a skirmish. Denied burial because he died excommunicate, his body was wrapped in lead and taken to the Templar community in London. Later he was buried in their chapel there, and an effigy placed in the floor where it can be seen today.

His career is interesting for two reasons. The charters which he received from Stephen and Matilda illustrate the peculiar form taken by the ambitions of English feudatories. The most important concessions are grants of offices and jurisdictions which had the effect of making Mandeville almost a viceroy with full powers in Essex, Middlesex and London, and Hertfordshire--but these were based on offices and jurisdictions his ancestors had held. His career as an outlaw exemplifies the worst excesses of the civil wars of 1140-1147, and it is possible that the deeds of Mandeville inspired the rhetorical description, in the Peterborough Chronicle of this period, when "men said openly that Christ and his saints were asleep." He had seized Ramsey Abbey (near Peterborough) in 1143, expelling the monks and using Ramsey as a base for forays into the surrounding region.

Geoffrey married Rohese de Vere, daughter of Aubrey de Vere II. He had four sons:

    * Ernulf (illegitimate), who was exiled for supporting his father in rebellion
    * Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex (d. 1166)
    * William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex (d. 1189)
    * Robert (d. before 1189)

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