Geoffroy de Joinville, seigneur de Vaucouleurs

Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville (1225/33 - 21 October 1314) also known as Geoffrey de Joinville, was an Anglo-French noble, supporter of Henry III, who appointed him Baron of Trim, County Meath, and, subsequently, a staunch supporter of Edward I. Contents [hide] 1 Family and marriage 2 Political and military career 3 Later life 4 References Family and marriage[edit]

Geoffrey was Seigneur of Vaucouleurs in Champagne, second son of Simon de Joinville and Beatrix d'Auxonne and younger brother of Jean de Joinville.[1][2] Geoffrey's half-sister was wife to one of Eleanor of Provence's uncles, Peter of Savoy, earl of Richmond.[3] Geoffrey was thus one of the "Savoyards" who arrived in England in the retinue of Eleanor at the time of her marriage to King Henry III in 1236. Some time between 1249 and 8 August 1252, Henry III arranged Geoffrey's marriage to Maud (or 'Mathilda') de Lacy, widow of another Savoyard, Pierre de Genève, himself also a relative of Queen Eleanor, who had died in 1249. Maud had been co-heiress to vast estates and lordships in Ireland, Herefordshire, and the Welsh Marches, and the marriage is considered typical of Henry's 'policy' of appointing such 'aliens' to retain control of the outlying regions of the kingdom.[1] Geoffrey thus came to control vast estates in Ireland centred at Trim, the Welsh borders at Ludlow, Ewyas Lacy and others in England. Maud and Geoffrey had at least two sons, Geoffrey and Peter ('Piers').[3] Political and military career[edit]

Geoffrey was both a military figure and political negotiator. He successfully pacified the Irish pro-Montfort and Royalist barons at this time that assisted the future Edward I's success at Evesham. In 1267 he assisted Henry III with negotiations with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the year of the Treaty of Montgomery.[3] With another of his brothers, William, he accompanied Edward on the Eighth Crusade in 1270, fought in Welsh Wars, and went on diplomatic missions to Paris. He served as justiciar from 1273 to 1276 but had little success against the Leinster Irish, being heavily defeated in 1274 and 1276. In 1280 he acted as Edward's envoy in Paris and to the papal curia, a mission repeated ten years later in 1290. In 1282 he was assistant to the Marshal of England in the Welsh War of that year. In 1283 He granted his English lands to his son Peter and focussed his attention on Ireland.[3] He and his wife defended their liberty rights in Trim against the Dublin government, and defined military duties for his tenants.[2] In 1297 he supported Edward in the crisis caused by royal demands for men and money for the war in France. Edward appointed Geoffrey as Marshal of England in place of the main dissenter Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk until the crisis was over. Geneville subsequently received a number of summonses to parliaments between February 1299 and November 1306.[3] Later life[edit]

Geoffrey's wife and their two sons all pre-deceased him, Maud dying on 11 April 1304.[3] In 1308, aged about eighty, he conveyed most, but not all, of his Irish lordships to Roger Mortimer, husband of his eldest granddaughter and heir, Joan. He retired to the Dominican Black Friary at Trim, that he had established 1263.[4] He died 21 October 1314 and was buried there.[2] Upon his death Joan succeeded him as "suo jure" Baroness Geneville. References[edit]

^ Jump up to: a b Hartland, Beth (November 2001). "Vaucouleurs, Ludlow and Trim: The Role of Ireland in the Career of Geoffrey de Geneville (c. 1226-1314)". Irish Historical Studies (Irish Historical Studies Publications) 32 (128): 457–477. JSTOR 30006971. Retrieved 23 March 2013. edit ^ Jump up to: a b c "Geoffrey de Geneville", The Oxford Companion to Irish History, retrieved 22 March 2013 ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Geneville [Joinville], Geoffrey de, first Lord Geneville (1225x33–1314), soldier and administrator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37448. (subscription or UK public library membership required) Jump up ^ Mandal, Stephen; O’Carroll, Finola. "A New Model for Site Preservation and Archaeological Practice". Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved 23 March 2013. Categories: 1226 birthsPeople from ChampagneAnglo-Normans in IrelandChristians of the Eighth Crusade1314 deaths

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Mother Blanche (?)1 b. circa 1215?

Also called Geoffrey de Geneville, Lord of Trim.2 Lord of Trim at Ireland in 1234.2 Geoffroy de Joinville, seigneur de Vaucouleurs was born circa 1235. He was the son of Simon, sire de Joinville and Blanche (?).1 Arms: Azure three horse braies fesswise in pale or a chief ermine a lion rampant issuant gules.3 Geoffroy de Joinville, seigneur de Vaucouleurs married Maud de Lacy, daughter of Gilbert de Lacy and Isabel le Bigod.4,2 Geoffroy de Joinville, seigneur de Vaucouleurs was the successor of James de Aldithley, Justiciar of Ireland; Justiciar of Ireland.5 Geoffroy de Joinville, seigneur de Vaucouleurs was the successor of Maurice fitz Maurice, Lord Justice of Ireland; Justiciar of Ireland.5 Justiciar of Ireland in 1273.6,5 Annals of Monte Fernando 1273: "Item dominus Galfridus de Genevile venit usque Hiberniam, de terra sancta, parum ante festum beati Francisci, et factus est justiciarius Hibernie, post octavas beati Francisci."7 Geoffroy de Joinville, seigneur de Vaucouleurs was the predecessor of Robert de Ufford, Justice of Ireland; Justice of Ireland.8,9 Arms: Azure, three horsebrays or, on a chief ermine a demi-lion rampant gules.10 Geoffroy de Joinville, seigneur de Vaucouleurs bought the marriage of his daughter from William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, for £200 in December 1283.6 He died in 1314.10 Family Maud de Lacy b. before 1230, d. 11 April 1304

Children • Piers de Geneville, Lord of Mede, Vaucouleur, and Trim+ b. c 1261, d. b 8 Jun 12921 • Joan de Geneville b. 1262

Seigneur de VAUCOULEURS; Lord of Trim; Lord Geneville

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Sir Geoffrey de Geneville
BIRTH 1226
Vaucouleurs, Departement de la Meuse, Lorraine, France
DEATH 21 Oct 1314 (aged 87–88)
County Meath, Ireland
BURIAL
Black Friars
Trim, County Meath, Ireland
MEMORIAL ID 111466245

ord Geneville or Joinville, Knight and seigneur of Vaucouleurs in Champagne, France. In right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, of Drogheda and Blathagh Castles in Ireland. Justiciar of Ireland, King's Marshal.

Younger son of Simon de Joinville, seigneur of Joinville in Champagne by his second wife, Beatrix, daughter of Eitienne III, Count of Bergundy and Auxonne. Geoffrey was born in or after 1226.

Geoffrey married Maud de Lacy,the daughter of Gilbert de Lacy and Isabel le Bigod. They married before 08 August 1252 and had nine sons and two daughters:

• Geoffrey de Geneville d 1283
• Sir Peter de Geneville d by 1292 with issue including Joan de Geneville
• Walter de Geneville slain in Flemish wars
• John de Geneville liv 1319
• Simon de Geneville liv 1347
• Nicholas de Geneville d by 1336
• Peter de Geneville, the 2nd liv 1294
• William de Geneville d by 1309
• Joan, wife of Gerald FitzMaurice & Johanni I of Ober-Salm
• Katherine, Prioress of Acornbury

Geoffrey arrived in England after March 1251, and had livery of Maud's inheritances from her grandfather, Sir Walter de Lacy, in Meath in 1252. In 1254, they received livery of Trim Castle and a moiety of 40 'marcates' of land, and received a grant of 50 livres tournois by the French king for services. He was in Gascony with Edward Longshanks in 1255, and summoned to serve the king against the Welsh in 1260, 1276 and 1282, accompanied Edward to the Holy Land, and granted all their lands in England and Wales to their son, Peter in 1283.

Maud died in 1304, Geoffrey obtained permission to surrender her lands in Ireland to Roger de Mortimer and his wife, Joan, Geoffrey's granddaughter through Peter, possibly the eldest surviving son. Geoffrey then entered the House of Friars Preachers, the Blackfriary, at Trim, where he was buried.

Family Members
Parents
Beatrix d'Auxonne
unknown–1261

Spouse
Maud de Lacy
1230–1304

Siblings
Agnes de Faucigny
unknown–1268
Jean de Joinville
1224–1317

Children
Peter De Geneville