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Geoffrey de Geneville

Male Abt 1226 - 1314  (~ 88 years)


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  • Name Geoffrey de Geneville 
    Born Abt 1226  of Vaucouleurs, , France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 21 Oct 1314 
    Buried Friars Preachers, Trim, , Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7231  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Maud de Lacy,   d. 12 Apr 1304 
    Married Bef 8 Aug 1252 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3202  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES;
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ISABEL LE BIGOD, married (1st) GILBERT DE LACY (or LASCY), of Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, son and heir apparent of Walter de Lacy, Knt., of Weobley, Holme Lacy, Mansell Gamage, and Yarkhill, Herefordshire, Ludlow, Rock [Farm] (in Ludlow), and Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, lord of Meath, Ireland, by Margaret (or Margery), daughter of William de Brewes. Isabel's maritagium included lands in Great Connell, co. Kildare, Ireland. They had one son, Walter, and two daughters, Margery and Maud. Gilbert was hostage for his father in August 1215. GILBERT DE LACY died shortly before 25 Dec. 1230, and was buried in Llanthony Priory, Wales. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) before 12 April 1234 JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, Whaddon, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Redmarley Adam (in Great Witley), Worcestershire, etc., Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1234-6, Justiciar of Ireland, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, younger son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., Earl of Essex, Justiciar of England, by his 2nd wife, Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Clare [see ESSEX 2 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1205. They had two sons, John, Knt. [Lord Fitz John] and Richard, Knt. [Lord Fitz John], and four daughters, Maud, Isabel, Aveline, and Joan. In 1227 he sued the Abbot of Missenden for 22 acres of meadow in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in which the abbot had ingress only through Ralph de Chenduit to whom William [de Mandeville], Earl of Essex (brother of the said John), demised the meadow for a term. He was granted the manor of Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire about 1230 by Henry d'Oilly' his possession of the manor was confirmed by the king in 1232 following the death of Henry d'Oilly. In 1233 he was summoned to respond to Henry de Kemeseck regarding the right of presentation to the church of East Tilbury, Essex. John replied that that the church belonged to the hospital which his father, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, had built upon land purchased from Clement de Monasterio, who held it of the church. Clement was present and said that Geoffrey had taken the land from him by force. It was admitted that the land on which the hospital was built pertained to the church, which in its turn pertained to the ancestral fief of the earls at Pleshey. Consequently John lost his case. Sometime in the period, 1233-6, his half-sister, Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, quitclaimed to him 100s. which he owed her annually for Cherhill, Wiltshire. In 1234 she granted him the manor of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, he rendering to her the service due to the chief lord of the fee, as well as the service of a twentieth of a knight. In 1237 he was sent to the Council of Lyons to protest against the papal tribute. In 1240 the king granted him the manor of Ringwood, Hampshire, it being described as "of the lands of the Bretons." The king granted him the manor of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire in 1242, which Hugh d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, had surrendered to the king of the lands of the Normans. The same year the marriage of the sons and heirs of John de Vipont was granted to him for a fine of 200 marks. In 1243 Roger de Clere conveyed the manor of Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex to him. In 1253 the king granted him the cantred of the Isles of Thomon in Ireland. In 1254, at his instance, the king gave a charter to his nephew, Richard de la Rokele, for free warren in Richard's demesne lands in the counties of Kent, Wiltshire, and Essex, together with weekly markets and annual fairs at his manors of Wokenden, Essex and Marke Lavington, Wiltshire. SIR JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY died 23 Nov. 1258.
      Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi 1 (1835): 158. Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 26 (Marshal ped.: "Matilda [Marshal] nupsit Hugoni Bigot, comiti Norfolciæ, qui jure uxoris fait mariscalcius Angliæ, hic ex ea generavit Radulphum Bigot, pattem Johannis Bigot, qui fuit filius dominæ Bertæ de Furnivall, et Isabelle de Lacy uxoris domini Johannis fitz Geffrey; mortuo autem Hugone Bigot cornite Norfolciæ, Johannes Garrune comes Surricæ ex filia filium nomine Ricardum et sororem Isabellam de Albeney, comitissam de Arundell." Eyton Ataiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 53 (sub Bigod). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 122 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1258: "Eodem anno ad festum Sancti Clementis [23 November] obiit nobilis vir Johannes filius Galfridi, justiciarius regis in Hibernia."). Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ...Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped). Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 9-21. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 797 (seal of John Fitz Geoffrey dated 13th century - A shield of arms: quarterly, a label of (five?) points [FITZ PETER]); 3 (1894): 170 (seal of Gilbert de Lacy son of Walter de Lacy, of co. Salop [ob. A.D. 1234] dated early 13th Cent. - A shield of arms: A fess. Legend: "SIGILLVM GILBERTI DE LACI." Beaded border.). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Calls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. List of Sherffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 161. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 1 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 2) (1902): 113. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Genealogist n.s. 21 (1905): 1-5. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 319, 346. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 341. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 86-92. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1216-13333 (1920): 232 ("In a quit-claim to the advowson of the church of Kenles in Fothered, Richard de la Rochelle calls John Fitz Geoffrey his avunculus: MS. Kilkenny Castle, dated 1264."), 286-287 (Lacy ped.); 4 (1920): 61. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 372-375. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 6-7 (arms of Fitz. John: Quarterly or and gules a border vair), 12-19, 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76, 100-102, 226-229. C.P. 5 (1926): 434, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn), 629 (sub Geneville); 9 (1936): 590, footnote c; 12(2) (1959): 248. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1 227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 46. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod); 220: 1-2, 310: 4-5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95. Sheehy Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 243, footnote 7 (identifies Richard de la Rokele as nephew of John Fitz Geoffrey). Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. C.R.R. 15 (1972): 110-111. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 188 (charter dated 1234 of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey), 189, 191 (charter dated 1233-6 of Maud, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother' [fratri] John Fitz Geoffrey), 192-193. Patterson ed. Haskins Soc. Jour. Studies in Medieval Hist. 1 (1989): 170 (Fitz Peter ped.). Turner Judges, Administrators & the Common Law in Angevin England (1994): 306 (Fitz Peter ped.). Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 1 (Selden Soc. 111) (1996): 16-17,84-91. Prestwich Edward I (1997): 13, 22 ("One of the most important of Edward's English councillors was John FitzGeoffrey, a man of impeccable curial background"), 24-25. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): chart opp. 1. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00110962,00320330 (charter of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey dated 1234) (available at http:// res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rollsofarrns/rolls/gloversBl.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of John Fitz Geoffrey: Quarterly or and gales overall a bordure vair).
      Children of Isabel le Bigod, by Gilbert de Lacy:
      i. WALTER DE LACY, son and heir. He married ROHESE (or ROSE) LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), daughter of Thebaud (or Tebaud) le Boteler. They had no issue. WALTER DE LACY died between 15 May 1238 and 1241. Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 21(1905): 1-5. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 310:5.
      ii. MARGERY DE LACY [see next].
      iii. MAUD DE LACY (or LASCY), younger daughter. She was co-heiress to her brother, Walter de Lacy, sometime in the period, 1238-41. She was co-heiress in 1241 to her paternal grandfather, Walter de Lacy, Knt., by which she inherited half of the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire. She married (1st) before 15 March 1244 PETER (or PIERRE) OF GENEVA (or GENEVE), Governor of Windsor Castle, 1248-9, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, eldest son of Humbert, Count of Genevois. He was a near kinsman of Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III of England. They had one son and one daughter, both of whom died in infancy. He first appears in connection with English affairs in 1242, when King Henry III, being at Bordeaux, gave him custody of the land and heir of William d'Aubeney. In 1245 he was granted the manor of Dilwyn, Herefordshire and the custody of the land formerly belonging to Richard de Kaynes till the dower lands of his wife's inheritance should be delivered to him. In 1248 he was granted custody of Windsor Castle, Berkshire, and two other royal castles. PETER OF GENEVA died shortly before 29 June 1249. She married (2nd) before 8 August 1252 GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE (or GEYNVILL, JOINVILLE), Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs (Meuse, ax. Commercy) in Champagne, France, Justiciar of Ireland, 1273, King's Marshal, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, and Drogheda and Blathagh' Castles in Ireland, younger son of Simon de Joinville, seigneur of Joinville (Haute-Marne, ar. Saint-Dizier) in Champagne, Seneschal of Champagne, 1204-33, by his 2nd wife, Beatrix, daughter of Etienne III, Count of Burgundy and Auxonne. He was born in or after 1226. They had eight sons, Geoffrey, Peter, Knt., Walter, John (or Jean), Simon, Nicholas, Peter (2nd of name), and William, and two daughters, Joan and Katherine [Prioress of Aconbury]. He arrived in England soon after 9 March 1250/1. In 1252 he and his wife, Maud, had livery of all the liberties and customs of Meath, which her grandfather, Walter de Lacy, had held. In 1254 they had livery of the Castle of Trim in Ireland, and a moiety of 40 marcates of land. The same year he was granted 50 livres toumois by the king to sustain him in the king's service. He was in Gascony with Edward the king's son in August 1255. In 1259 he and his wife, Maud, gave 40s. of annual rent from lands by Kenlis to Beaubec Abbey. In 1260 he partitioned the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire with his wife's brother-in-law, John de Verdun. He was summoned by the king to serve against the Welsh in 1260, 1276, and 1282. Following the capture of the Irish justidar in Dec. 1264, Geoffrey, who was already a member of the council in Ireland, assumed control of the government and secured reconciliation between the warring parties. In 1266 he and his wife, Maud, obtained permission from Gilles, Bishop of Toul, to found the collegiale of Vaucouleurs. The same year, with consent of his wife, he gave the affouage in the woods of Vaucouleurs for the house of Utigney, which Rieval Abbey possessed at Broussey-en-Blois. In 1267 he was appointed with Robert Walerand to treat of peace with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Wales. In 1267 he granted the manor of Stanton to his wife's aunt, Katherine de Lacy, for a term. The same year he and his wife, Maud, gave to the Prioress and Convent of Acombury a moiety of four mills in Ludlow, with the suits thereof, together with half a merk rent. In 1270 he accompanied Edward the king's son on crusade to the Holy Land. In 1270-1 he gave the Order of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit of Rome the "maison-dieu" of Vaucouleurs, together with 20 joumaux of arable land and four journaux of vignes. In 1272 he was summoned by the king of France against Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix. He accompanied Prince Edward to the Holy Land but returned before him. He was made Justiciar of Ireland in October 1273, which office he held until 17 June 1276. In 1277-8 Katherine de Lacy arraigned an assize of novel dissseisin against him and Gilbert de Lacy regarding a tenement in Downton, Shropshire. In 1280 he and his wife, Maud, had attorneys nominated for them for three years, they then going to Lorraine. In 1280 he and Maurice de Craon rendered an account of their mission to the king of France on the subject of the peace concluded between the kings of England and Castile. In 1283 he and his wife, Maud, granted all their lands in England and Wales to their son, Peter. In 1287 he received letters of protection, he then being in Flanders in service to the king. In 1290 he and two masters of civil law were sent by the king to Rome to discuss the king's expedition to the Holy Land. In 1293 he made an exchange with the cure of Mauvages. In 1294 the liberty of Trim, which had been taken into the king's hands, was restored to him. This liberty was soon afterwards taken again into the king's hands for Geoffrey's contempt in not executing the king's mandate concerning Nicholas Bacun, a prisoner in the gaol of the liberty. In 1295 the liberty of Trim was again restored to him, in consideration of his services in Welsh wars. In 1297 he was a commissioner on the king's part to settle the difficulties between the Constable and Marshal, which resulted in the king appointing him marshal and Thomas de Berkeley constable. In 1298 and 1299 he was sent to treat with the envoys of the King of France concerning peace. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 Feb. 1298/9 to 3 Nov. 1306, by writs directed Galfrido de Genevill', GEYnvill', and Gienvill', or the like, whereby he is held to have become Lord Geneville. In 1299 he was one of the magnates representing the English king at the treaty of Montreuil 19 June 1299. In 1300 he was one of envoys sent to Rome to negotiate the peace between England and France. In 1302 the liberties of Trim and Meath, which had been taken into the king's hand for contempt, were restored to him and his wife, Maud, for a term. His wife, Maud, died 11 April 1304. In 1307 he obtained license to surrender to Roger de Mortimer and Joan his wife (granddaughter of Geoffrey) the lands and tenements in Ireland which he held by the courtesy after the death of Maud his wife. He subsequently retired to the House of the Friars Preachers in Trim. SIR GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE, Lord Geneville, died 21 October 1314, and was buried at Friars Preachers in Trim. Smith Annales de Monte Fernandi (1842): sub A.D. 1273 (“Item dominus Galfridus de Genevile venit usque Hiberniam, de terra sancta, parum ante festum beati Francisci, et factus est justiciarius Hibernie, post octavas beati Francisci."). Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 46 ("[A.D. 1302. Obiit Matilda de Lad, uxor Galfridi de Genevile."). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 8-11, 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Wurstemberger Peter der Zweite, Graf von Savoyen, Markgraf in Italien 4 (1858): 92-93,104-105. Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 626 (seal of Geoffroi de Joinville dated 1299 - Equestre, aux armes (comme dessus). Legend destroyed; Contre-sceau. Pierre gravée. Un masque a trois visages. Legende: + DE IONIVILLA DNI VALICOLORIS). Régeste Genevoir (1866): 194, 197, 198, 203. Brewer & Bullen Cal. Carew MSS (1871): 447 (charter of Geoffrey de Geynville and Maud de Lascy his wife dated 1259). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 186; 47 (1886): 207, 230. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 298 (seal of Geoffrey de Joinville dated 1259 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet and vizor down, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned, galloping at full speed. For arms, see the description of reverse. Reverse. Within a pointed gothic quatrefoil, and suspended by the loop from a hook between two sprigs of foliage, a shield of arms: three horses' bits, on a chief a demi lion issuant [JOINVILLE]). Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 54 (1893): 334-343. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. Delaborde Jean de Joinville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (1894): 318-322, 329, 331, 339, 342, 344, 349 (Geoffrey de Joinville, Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs styled "dear uncle" [chier oncle] by Beatrix de Viennois et d'Albon, lady of Faucigny, in 1270), 350-351, 358, 364-367, 369-372, 374-376, 377-383, 385, 387-397, 399, 401-403, 417-418. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 241; n.s. 21(1905): 1-5 ("The arms of Peter of Geneva, according to M. Paris, were Sable a lion rampant Argent), 73-78. Wrottesley Pedf. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161, 333. Mills Cal. Gormanston Reg. (1916): 7. C.P. 5 (1926): 628-631 (sub Geneville) (arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Azure, three brays in pale or, on a chief ermine a demi lion rampant gules, issuant). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 245: 1-3; 310: 5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95-96. Hand English Land in Ireland (1967): 13, 18, 27, 83, 102, 124-131, 133, 138, 151, 157, 202-203. Tremlett Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P 113-4) (1967): 32 (arms of Peter of Geneva: Sable, a lion rampant argent). Evergates Feudal Soc. in Medieval France (1993): xxix (chart), 112-113. Curia Regis Rolls 18 (1999): 84, 313. Irish Hist. Studies 33 (2001): 457-477. Duffy Medieval Ireland (2005): 195-196 (biog. of Geoffrey de Geneville). National Archives, SC 8/114/5665; SC 8/174/8660 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/era/lord_marshals/Lord_Marshal02/Lord%20Marshal2.htm (Lord Marshal's Roll - arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Vert on a chief ermine a lion rampant issuant gules).
      Child of Maud de Lacy, by Geoffrey de Geneville, Knt.:
      a. PETER DE GENEVILLE (or VAUCOULEURS), Knt., of Ludlow and Stanton-Lacy, Shropshire, married JOAN (or JEANNE) DE LA MARCHE (or DE LUSIGNAN) [see LUSIGNAN 8].
      Children of Isabel le Bigod, by John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt.:
      i. JOHN FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Ringwood, Hampshire, Moulton, Northamptonshire, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, Cherhill and Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc., Sheriff of Westmorland, 1264, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1264, son and heir. He married before 18 Feb. 1258/9 MARGERY BASSET, daughter of Philip Basset, Knt., of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Compton Bassett and Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, etc., Justiciar of England [see LONGESPEE 5.viii], by his 1st wife, Hawise, daughter of Matthew de Lovaine, Knt. They had no issue. He had livery of his father's lands 18 Feb. 1258/9, while yet a minor. He was one of the most conspicuous members of the baronial party. As a supporter of Simon de Montfort, he agreed to submit to the arbitration of the King of France 13 Dec. 1263. He, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and William de Munchensy commanded the second division of the army of the barons at the Battle of Lewes 14 May 1264. He was summoned for military service against the Welsh, 1258-63. He was summoned to Parliament 24 Dec. 1264, by writ directed Johanni filio Johannis. He was prohibited from taking part in the tournament at Dunstaple in 1265. He was wounded at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and taken prisoner. He was pardoned and admitted to the king's peace 10 July 1266, and recovered his lands under the Dictum of Kenilworth. His lands were again taken in the king's hands in 1268 for contempt. In 1270 he was one of those appointed to treat with Llywelyn at Gresford. His wife, Margery, died sometime before 29 October 1271. SIR JOHN FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died testate at Lambeth, Surrey shortly before 6 Nov. 1275. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 16, 104. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76. C.P. 5 (1926): 433-435, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn) (arms of John Fitz John: Quarterly Or and Gules, a bordure Vair). Moor Knights of Edward I 2 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 42-43. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191, 258.
      ii. RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Bierton, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, etc., Constable of Rockingham Castle, 1295, Captain of Bourg-sur-mer, 1296, 2nd son, born about 1245-51 (aged 24-30 in 1275). He married EMMA ___. They had no issue. He was heir in 1275 to his older brother, John Fitz John, Knt., 1st Lord Fitz John. He had livery of his brother's lands in England 8 Dec. 1275, and in Ireland 5 May 1278. In 1276-7 he was granted letters of protection, he then going in the king's suite to the parts of Wales. He served in the army in Wales in 1277, 1282, 1287, and 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295, by writ directed Ricardo filio Johannis, whereby he is held to have become Lord Fitz John. In 1295 he was about to proceed to Gascony with Edmund the king's brother. SIR RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died in Gascony shortly before 5 August 1297. His widow, Emma, married (2nd) by royal license dated 25 Jan. 1300/1 ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Knt. [see MORLEY 7ii], of Hawarden, Flintshire, Mold and Neston, Cheshire, Castle Rising and Kenninghall, Norfolk, Frarnsden and Kessingland, etc., Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Steward of Chester, 2nd son of Robert de Mohaut, Knt., of Hawarden, Flintshire, Framsden, Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., by Joan, daughter of Roger de Mowbray, Knt. [see MORLEY 7 for his ancestry]. He was born 25 March 1274. They had no issue. He was heir in 1296 to his older brother, Roger de Mohaut, Lord Mohaut He presented to the church of Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire in 1306. In 1310 he was summoned to answer William de Bernake of a plea that he permit him to present a fit parson to two parts of the church of Atdeborough, Norfolk. In 1312 he had license to settle the manor of Kenninghall, Norfolk on himself and his wife, Emma, and their issue, with remainder to his right heirs. In 1313 he owed a debt of 140 marks to John de Haudlo. In 1327 he settled all of his estates including Mold, Hawarden, Castle Rising, etc., together with the Stewardship of Chester, on himself and his wife, Emma, for life, and his own issue male, with remainder in default to Queen Isabel, her son John of Eltham and his heirs, and the king successively, for which the king paid him 10,000 marks. SIR ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Lord Mohaut, died 26 Dec. 1329, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. On 3 Dec. 1331 his widow, Emma, surrendered to Queen Isabel her life interest in the lordships of Mold, Hawarden, etc. for an annuity of £400. Emma died 26 Jan 1331/2, and was buried in Stradsett church, Norfolk. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1805): 216-218; 9 (1808): 42-46 (seal of Emma de Mohaut dated 1331 - two shields of arms, one being quarterly, with a bordure [FITZ JOHN], the other a lion rampant [MOHAUT]). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 107-109 (biog. of Robert de Montalt) (Montalt arms: Azure, a lion rampant Argent). Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 231. Suckling Hist. & Antiqs. of Suffolk 1 (1846): 252-253. Arch. Jour. 15 (1858): 236-252. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 36 (1875): 349; 44 (1883): 104; 46 (1886): 260. Cox Notes on the Churches of Detishire 3 (1877): 507. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (1883): 326. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 233, 237, 275. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 96-97. C.P.R. 1307-1313 (1894): 457, 463. C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 129-130. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37, 102. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 153-154 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138, 531-532. Maitland Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 60-63. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 320-327; 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 436 441 (sub Fitzjohn); 9 (1936): 15-17 (sub Mohaut). Moor Knights of Edward 12 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 43-44 (biog. of Richard Fitz John); 3 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 172-174 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Richardson & Sayles Rottuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 75, 240-266. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 103. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 43 (Deed A.S.247), 44 (Deed A.S.251). VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 194-208. VCH Sussex 5(1) (1997): 190-204; 7 (1940): 258. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 90 ("One lady, whose claim to be a patron was the unique and surely very personal inscription on her tomb at Stradsett, Norfolk, 'Ici gist Dame Emme de Mouhaut Femme de Deux Barons.' As well as receiving dower from her first husband, Richard FitzJohn, of several manors, townships, knights' fees and advowsons, there are references to lands being held jointly with her second husband, Robert Mohaut (Montalt), who settled all his estates on himself and his wife for life, his own male issue, and the remainder, should there be no heirs, was to go to Queen Isabelle, John of Eltham, his heirs, or the king, who had, in return, paid Robert Mohaut (Montalt) 10,000 marks."). National Archives, C 131/174/49; SC 8/329/E945 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      iii. MAUD FITZ JOHN, married (1st) GERARD DE FURNIVAL, Knt., of Sheffield, Yorkshire [see BEAUCHAMP 9]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see BEAUCHAMP 9].
      iv. ISABEL FITZ JOHN, married ROBERT DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland [see CLIFFORD 8].
      v. AVELINE FITZ JOHN, married WALTER DE BURGH, Knt., 2nd Earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht [see BURGH 4].
      vi. JOAN FITZ JOHN, married THEBAUD LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), of Arklow, co. Wicklow [see BUTLER 5].”