Lord John FitzGeoffrey 
John was born about 1215 in Shere,Surrey,England. John's father was Geoffrey FitzPiers deManDeville Earl of Essex and his mother was Eveline Aveline deClare. His paternal grandparents were Piers deLutegareshale and Maud deManDeville; his maternal grandparents were Earl of Hertford Roger de Clare and Maud (Matilda) de Saint Hillary. He was an only child. He died on November 23rd, 1258.General Notes
Justiciar of Ireland
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 atthe King's table). John Fitz-Goeffrey, on the death of his half-brother Williamin 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 attemptinganything therein prejudicial to the interests of the King and kingdom. In eightyears 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 tocomplain 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 agrant from the crown of the Isles of Thomond.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1104
- b.1130 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England d.>08 May 1198 in WinCheshire,England
- b.~ 1162 in Walden Abbey,Essex,England d.02 Oct 1213 in Shouldham
- b.~ 1036 in Rycott,Oxfordshire,England d.> 1085 in Westminster,Middlesex,England
- b.~ 1062 in Great Waltham,Essex,England d.14 Sep 1144 in Suffolk,England
- b.1040 in Of Rycott,Oxfordshire,England d.> 1085
- b.1138 in Rycott,Oxfordshire,England d.~ 1176
- b.~ 1030 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.1088
- b.1082 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.15 May 1141 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1040 in Bourboucy, France
- b.~ 1109 in Hedingham,Essex,England d.>21 Oct 1166 in England
- b.< 1066 in Of, Clare, Suffolk, England d.1114/1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.1096 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.1163 in St. Osyth's Priory,Essex,England
- b.1065 in Northamptonshire, England d.1117 in England
- b.~ 1215 in Shere,Surrey,England d.23 Nov 1258
- b.1090 in Hertford, Herfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1098 in Hertford, Herfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England d.> 1142
- b.~ 1172 in Hereford,Herefordshire,England d.~04 Jun 1225
- b.~ 1060 d.DECEASED
- b.~ 1067 in Harcourt,Eure,Normandy,France d.< 1130
- b.~ 1105 in Harcourt,Eure,Normandy,France d.~ 1154 in Field Dalling,Norfolk,England
- b.1132 in Burkenham,Norfolk,England d.24 Dec 1193 in Norfolk,England
- b.1099
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They had a daughter named Maud.
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Children
Maud FitzJohn
Maud was born in 1245 in Shere, Surrey, England. She died at the age of 56 in 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcester.
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