Maud FitzGeoffrey , Countess of Essex 
Maud was born about 1185 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. Maud's father was Geoffrey FitzPiers , 3rd Earl of Essex and her mother was Beatrix de Say. Her paternal grandparents were Piers de Lutegareshale and Maud de Mandeville; her maternal grandparents were William II de Say , of Sawbridgeworth and Aufrica of Huntingdon. She had two brothers named Geoffrey de and William de. She was the second oldest of the three children. She had a half-brother and a half-sister, named John and Hawise. She died on August 27th, 1236 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England.General Notes
Maud Fitz Geoffrey, died 1236, Countess of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, died 1213, Earl of Essex, and Beatrix de Say, daughter of William de Say. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Maud, dau. of Geoffrey Fitz-Piers, Earl of Essex, and eventually heiress of her brother, William de Mandeville, last Earl of Essex of that family. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57, Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and High Constables of England]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1134 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England d.>08 May 1198 in Pleshey, Essex, England
- b.< 1163 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.14 Oct 1213 in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England
- b.1138 in Costow, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1185 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.27 Aug 1236 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1133 in Saham, Norfolk, England d.<01 Aug 1177 in Kimbolton, St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England (dspm)
- b.~ 1160 in Kimbolton, St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England d.<19 Apr 1197
- b.1114 in Scotland d.12 Jun 1152 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.~ 1140 in Kimbolton, St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.~ 1071 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1122 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.1178 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.~ 1081 in Valois, Bretagne, France d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
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‌Maud and Henry de were married in a religious ceremony about 1197 in Essex, England. They had a son named Humphrey V de.
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Children
Humphrey V de Bohun , 2nd Earl Hereford&Essex
Humphrey V de was born in 1208 in Hungerford, Essex, England. He died at the age of 67 on September 24th, 1275.
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