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. 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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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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