John FitzGeoffrey 
John was born in 1215 in Shere, Surrey, England. John's father was Geoffrey Fitz Piers IV Earl of Essex and his mother was Aveline deClare. His paternal grandparents were Piers deLutegareshale and Maud deManDerville; his maternal grandparents were Earl Richard de Clare and Countess Amicia FitzRobert. He had a sister named Hawise. He was the younger of the two children. He had three half-sisters named Mary, Maud and Hawise. He died at the age of 43 on November 23rd, 1258.General Notes
John was a man of great wealth and position, who was appointed Justice ofEngland, and at the coronation of King John, June 26, 1199, was girt withthe sword, as Earl of Essex, and then served at the King's table). JohnFitz-Goeffrey, on the death of his half-brother William in 1227, paid afine to the King of 300 marks for those lands which were his father's anddid by inheritance rightly belong to him, and whereof this last EarlWilliam died seized. In the 18th of Henry III, this John was constitutedSheriff of Yorkshire, and in the same reign was admitted one of the PrivyCouncil, and the same year was one of those sent to the Pope to prohibithis attempting anything therein prejudicial to the interests of the Kingand kingdom. In eight years afterwards John Fitz-Goeffrey was one of thecommissioners sent from King Henry III, with Roger Bigod and others, tothe Council at Lyons, in order to complain of the great exactions madeupon the realm by the Holy See; the next year he was constituted Justiceof Ireland, where for his services he received a grant from the crown ofthe Isles of Thomond.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1104
- b.1130 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England d.>08 May 1198 in WinCheshire,England
- b.1166 in Walden, Essex, England d.14 Oct 1213
- b.1054 in Rycott, Oxford, England d.1087 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.1084 in Great Waltham, Essex, England d.1130 in Rycott, Oxford, England
- b.1064 in Rycott, Oxford, England d. in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.1100 in Great Waltham, Essex, England
- b.~ 1054 in , Normandy, France d.>12 Jul 1080
- b.1076 in Rycott, Oxford, England
- b.~ 1090 in Clare,Suffolk,England d.1149
- b.1148 in Rycott, Oxfordshire, England
- b.1030 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.1088 in Colne Priory
- b.1062 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.15 May 1141 in London,Middlesex,England-slain in a popular tumult
- b.1040 in France
- b.1118 d.UNKNOWN
- 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.1150 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.30 Dec 1218
- b.1090 in Dalling, Norfolk, England d.1115
- b.1095 in Field Dalling, , England d.1154
- b.~ 1132 in Burkenham, Norfolk, England d.24 Dec 1193 in Norfolk, England
- b.1112 in Norfolk, England
- b.1172 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.1225
- b.1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. denis, Seine-St. Denis, France
- b.1086 in Caen, Calvados, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1070 d.1154
- b.1128 in Gloucestershire,England d.23 Nov 1183
- b.1045
- b.1090 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1052
- b.1104 d.1168
- b.1130 d.31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo, Greece
- b.1112
- b.1150 d.24 Apr 1197
- b.1106
- b.1134 d.1212
- b.1114
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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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