Justiciar of Ireland John FitzGeoffrey Justiciar of Ireland 
John was born about 1215 in Shere, Surrey, England. John's father was Earl of Essex Geoffrey FitzPiers De Mandeville Earl of Essex and his mother was Eveline (Aveline) De Clare. His paternal grandparents were Piers De Lutegareshale and Maud De Mandeville; his maternal grandparents were Earl of Hertford Roger De Clare Earl of Hertford and Maud (Matilda) De Saint Hillary. He had a sister named Hawise. He was the younger of the two children. He had two half-brothers and two half-sisters, named William, Warin, Maud FitzGeoffrery and Saveric. He died on November 23rd, 1258.General Notes
John was a man of great wealth and position, who was appointed Justice of England, and at the coronation of King John, June 26, 1199, was girt with the sword, as Earl of Essex, and then served at the King's table). John Fitz-Goeffrey, on the death of his half-brother William in 1227, paid a fine to the King of 300 marks for those lands which were his father's and did by inheritance rightly belong to him, and whereof this last Earl William died seized. In the 18th of Henry III, this John was constituted Sheriff of Yorkshire, and in the same reign was admitted one of the Privy Council, and the same year was one of those sent to the Pope to prohibit his attempting anything therein prejudicial to the interests of the King and kingdom. In eight years afterwards John Fitz-Goeffrey was one of the commissioners sent from King Henry III, with Roger Bigod and others, to the Council at Lyons, in order to complain of the great exactions made upon the realm by the Holy See; the next year he was constituted Justice of Ireland, where for his services he received a grant from the crown of the Isles of Thomond.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1104
- b.~ 1134 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England d.>08 May 1198 in Winchester, England
- b.~ 1162 in Walden Abbey, Essex, England d.02 Oct 1213 in Shouldham
- b.~ 1062 in Great Waltham, Essex, England d.14 Sep 1144 in Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1138 in Rycott, Oxfordshire, England d.~ 1176
- b.~ 1082 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.15 May 1141 in London, Middlesex, England-slain in a popular tumult
- b.~ 1109 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.>21 Oct 1166 in England
- b.~ 1077 in Essex, England d.~ 1163 in St. Osyth's Priory, Essex, England
- b.~ 1215 in Shere, Surrey, England d.23 Nov 1258
- b.BET. 1084 - 1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, England - Slain
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1094 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.1128
- b.~ 1172 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.~04 Jun 1225
- b.~ 1105 in Harcourt, Eure, Normandy, France d.~ 1154 in Of Field Dalling, Norfolk, England
- b.1132 in Burkenham, Norfolk, England d.24 Dec 1193 in Norfolk, England
- b.1099 d.UNKNOWN
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Children
Maud FitzJohn
Maud was born about 1237 in Shere, Surrey, England. She died on April 16th, 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England.
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