Research Notes:

"Jean seigneur de Joinville, sénéchal de Champagne", with the advice of "Béatrix, sa mère", confirmed donations of property to Boulancourt by "Simon son père, de Geoffroy son oncle" and promised support to the abbey if "Geoffroy, seigneur de Vaucouleurs, son frère" troubled their possession, by charter dated Jul 1241.

Seigneur de Vaucouleurs. His parentage is confirmed by a charter dated Dec 1255 in which “Symons de Jenvile sires de Jay” names “mes frères Jehans signour de Jenvile, senechaz de Campaigne et Joffroy de Jenvile signor de Vauquelour”. “Jehans sires de Joinville seneschaus de Champaigne” confirmed the donation of revenue “de Syrefontaine” made to Mureau by “signours Thomas chevalier de Braz...signour Perron son freire” and “Joffroi mon freire signour de Vaucolor” by charter dated Aug 1255. “Gaufridus de Genvyle dominus de Vaucolour miles et Matildis de Lacy filia Gileberti Lacy uxor eius” donated property to Dore Abbey by undated charter, witnessed by “Johanne de Vaucolour milite…”. An order dated 16 Jan 1283 records "recognizance by Geofferey de Geneville, Matilda his wife and Peter their eldest son" to "William de Valence" for the commission of lands of “Maurice FitzGerald in Ireland, deceased” and for the marriage of “Gerald son and heir of the said Maurice, under age, and in custody of the said William”. "Geoffroy seigner de Vaucouleurs" divided his territories with “Gautier son fils aîné”, with the consent of “Mahaut sa femme et de ses autres enfants...Simon, Nicolas, Pierre, Guillaume et Jeanne comtesse de Salmes”, by charter dated 1294. ²

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27 Sep 1254, Bordeaux

Grant to Geoffrey de Genvill of 60 marks a year at the exchequer of Easter, until the king provide for him in an equivalent in land of wards or escheats.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 4, p. 338

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9 Jun 1255, Woodstock

Protection with clause until Michaelmas for Geoffrey de Genvyle, who is in the service of Edward the king's son in Gascony.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 4, p. 412

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14 Sep 1256

The king has committed to Geoffrey de Geneville that he is to have and told the king’s manor of Dilwyn with appurtenances at farm through five years beyond the term at which he now has the same manor at farm, rendering therefor per annum at the Exchequer as much as he now renders per annum for the same.

Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 40 Hen. III, 1089

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14 Oct 1257, Westminster

Protection with clause, until Easter, for Geoffrey de Genvyle gone to Ireland on the king's service.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 4, p. 581

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5 Nov 1259, Westminster

Sir Geoffrey de Genvile was a witness to an inspeximus and confirmation of a charter whereby Edward, the king's eldest son, gave to Ebulo de Montibus, for his homage and service, all the lands late of William de Buell in the town of Ketone, to be held by the said Ebulo, his heirs and assigns, from the said Edward by the service of the fourth part of the fee of one knight

Calendar of the Charter Rolls, 44 Hen. III, m. 6

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17 Oct 1265, Westminster

Grant to Geoffrey de Genvill [of] those houses late of William son of Benedict.

19 Oct 1265, Westminster

Grant to Geoffrey de Genvill [of] houses in Paternosterstret called la Ryoll in the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle, late of Thomas Bat

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 5, pp. 467, 468

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15 Sep 1267, Shrewsbury

Whereas the king by letters patent when he was last in Gascony under the little seal which he then used there restored to Geoffrey de Genvill the castle of Trim as of the inheritance of Maud de Lacy his wife, with a moiety of 40 marks yearly of land which the king kept in his hand for the guard of the said castle, on condition that the said Geoffrey and Maud should surrender the said castle when the king willed, whether he was angered or appeased; and the king, by letters patent, commanded John son of Geoffrey, then justiciary of Ireland, to give the said Geoffrey seisin accordingly ; the king, at the instance of the said Geoffrey and Maud has caused the said restitution to be renewed under the great seal.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 6, p. 109

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4 Nov 1269, Westminster

Whereas Geoffrey de Genevill, to whom, the king gave the lands of William de Huntyngfeld by occasion of trespasses charged against the said William at the time of the disturbance in the realm, to the value of £200 yearly of land, has restored the said lands to him, as the king has quit-claimed the same, saving the ransom, according to the form of the award of Kenilworth, of the lands which Joan de Huntingfeld holds in dower of the inheritance of the said William ; grant that the said William be not molested touching the said lands, saving to the king the ransom which belongs to him of the rest of the said £200 yearly of land, if any, in the aforesaid form.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 6, p. 390

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2 Sep 1273, St. Martin's-le-Grand, London

Mandate to William son of Warin, steward of the honor and county of Ulster, to deliver the honor, county, castles and lands belonging to the honor to Geoffrey de Genevill, appointed justiciary of Ireland.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edw. I, vol. 1, p. 28

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29 Oct 1276, Shrewsbury

Geoffrey de Geuevill and Matilda his wife put in their places Thomas de Lodelowe and Roger de Ewyas in all pleas, with power to appoint other attorneys in their places, from Michaelmas last for one year.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 5 Edw. I, m. 2d

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11 Sep 1278, Rhuddlan

Mandate to Robert de Ufford, justiciary of Ireland, S[tephen] bishop of Waterford, treasurer, and Fromund le Brun, chancellor, and Master John de Saunford, escheator thereof, to audit as soon as possible the account of Geoffrey de Genevill, late justiciary of Ireland, during his justiciaryship, as it appears that the mandate to the said justiciary and treasurer to do so in the presence of the master of the Knights Templars and of the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Ireland has been neglected.

12 Oct 1278, Worcester

Letters for Geoffrey de Genevill, going to Ireland, nominating Richard de Lodelawe his attorney for two years

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edw. I, vol. 1, pp. 277, 279

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1279 (no date)

Letter from Robert de Ufford to the king, acknowledging receipt of the king's letters touching the affairs of Sir Geoffrey de Geynvile, wherein it was contained that Geoffrey had given the king to understand that he was aggrieved by the king's justices and ministers in Ireland in writs and other matters, and that Robert ought to hear his grievances and to make amends to him if he found that Geoffrey had been wrongfully aggrieved. Robert asked him in what he felt himself aggrieved, and ho replied in this, that whereas he had, as he said, his franchise and separate county, not within the county of Dublin (Diveline), the chancellor had written to the sheriff concerning many matters when he ought to have written to Geoffrey or to his steward. And it was demanded of the chancellor how he had used this matter, and he said that he had never written except to the sheriff, but that he heard always (turjur) that Geoffrey and his men were making complaint as to this matter. Afterwards Geoffrey said that he was now aggrieved afresh by a return that came to his steward that he should cause many men of his franchise to be put under surety and others to be attached by their bodies to come to answer at Dublin, which matter was never done in his time, as he said. He was then told that it was found by inquisition that he and his men received the king's felons and burners of the king's land and outlaws. He answered that he knew well that he is respondent to the king as his lord, and his men to him in all pleas. And whereas he has his franchise and his county by itself, and is not in the county of Dublin, as he says, he and his men are not bound to know the deeds of the king's counties or to answer. The king's council was advised that if he or any of his men are charged with the receipt of the king's felons or outlaws, they are fully bound to answer in the king's court unless they can acquit themselves of knowing that they [the felons or outlaws] were such, or in another manner. Robert desires the king to send to him his will concerning this matter.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 6 Edw. I, m. 1.—Schedules

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4 Jun 1280, Westminster

Memorandmn, that, on Thursday before St. Urban, Geoffrey de Genevill came into chancery and said that he had lost his seal, together with certain other jewels. And he wished this to be known to all.

1280 (no date)

Geoffrey de Genevill acknowledges that he owes to the king 100 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 8 Edw. I, m. 6d.

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24 Oct 1283, Acton Burnell

Protection, with clause volumus for Geoffrey de Genevill, going on the king's service to Gascony, for one year.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edw. I, vol. 2, p. 83

16 Dec 1283, Shrewsbury

Geoffrey de Genevill and Matilda, his wife, and Peter, their eldest son, acknowledged that they owe to William de Valencia £1,200 for the commission of certain lands that belonged to Maurice son of Gerald in Ireland tenant in chief, deceased, and for the marriage of Gerald, son and heir of the said Maurice, a minor in William's wardship by the demise of Thomas de Clare, to whom the king granted the wardship and marriage : to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in England and Ireland.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 12 Edw. I, m. 10d.

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1284 (no date)

Enrolment of inquisition taken at Dublin, on Wednesday after St Mark, 9 Edward, before Robert de Ufford, justiciary of Ireland, by Philip de Staunton, Walter Lenfaunt, Nicholas de Dunheved, Walter de Nevill, Walter Portel, William Cadel, William Prendegast, William Waspayl, Maurice Purcel, John Punchardon, and Nicholas de Onethe, who say that Geoffrey de Genevile and Matilda, his wife, hold certain lands in Meath (Mide) of Matilda's inheritance that are outside the bounds of every of the king's counties, and that before the liberty of Meath was taken into the king's hands the king's writs there used to be addressed immediately to Hugh de Lacy and Walter de Lacy, Matilda's ancestors, and to their bailiffs there, and that this was changed from the time of the taking of the liberty aforesaid by the justiciary and by the chancellor and by other ministers of the king at their will and not for any other cause. They also say that it is not to the king's damage if his writs are directed to them [that is Geoffrey and Matilda] immediately as they were wont to be done in times past, but to his great profit because he would be able to have heavier amercements from them than from his sheriffs, and his orders would be more quickly and better executed by them than by sheriffs.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 12 Edw. I, m. 9d.

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4 May 1285, Westminster

Grant to Peter son of Geoffrey de Genevile of murage for his town of Lodelawe for five years from Ascension Day, 13 Edward I.

16 Aug 1285, Amesbury

Power to S. bishop of Waterford, justiciary of Ireland, J. archbishop elect of Dublin, Thomas de Clare and Geoffrey de Genevill, to rent out the king's waste lands in Connaught in the parts of Roskeman to his best advantage.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edw. I, vol. 2, pp. 159, 188

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3 Dec 1289, Westminster

Protection with clause volumus for Geoffrey de Genevile and Matilda his wife, going beyond seas, until a year after Easter in Ireland.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edw. I, vol. 2, p. 336

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3 Feb 1290, Westminster

To J. cardinal priest of St. Cecilia. Request for his assistance in expediting the affairs committed by the king to Sir Geoffrey de Geynvill, Master William de Grenefeld, and Thomas de Luggore, doctors (professores) of civil law, whom the king has caused to be sent to the apostolic see for certain matters for the aid of the Holy Land, concerning which matters the king wrote to him upon another occasion.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 18 Edw. I, m. 13d.

5 Feb 1290, Westminster

Safe-conduct, for one year, for Geoffrey de Genevill and Master William de Grenefeld and Thomas de Loggore, professors of the civil law, going to the Roman court on the king's affairs.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edw. I, vol. 2, p. 340

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12 Jan 1292, Westminster

John, archbishop of Dublin, Theobald de Verdun, and Geoffrey de Genevill acknowledge that they owe to Lapus Bonichi, Gradus Pini and their fellows, merchants of the society of Amanati of Pistoia, £200 ; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in Ireland.

26 Jan 1292, Westminster

John de Barry, Geoffrey de Genevill and Robert, bishop of Bath and Wells, acknowledge that they owe to James Bete and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, 218 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in Kent.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 20 Edw. I, m. 12d., m. 10d.

8 Apr 1292, Westminster

Order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to cause enrolment to be made pursuant to the king’s grant to Geoffrey de Geynvill that of the £223 6s. 8d. received by him as a loan in the wardrobe by the hands of W. bishop of Ely, late keeper thereof, he render 50 marks a year from Easter, 21 Edward I, in moieties at Easter and Michaelmas.

Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 20 Edw. I, m. 10

10 Jun 1292, Berwick-onTweed

Protection with clause volumus, for two years, for Geoffrey de Genevill and Matilda his wife, staying in Ireland.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edw. I, vol. 2, p. 493

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18 Jun 1294, Westminster

Grant to Geoffrey de Genevill of murage, for five years, for his town of Ludelawe.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edw. I, vol. 3, p. 75

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3 Jan 1296, St. Albans

To Richard de Burgo, earl of Ulster, Geoffrey de Geynvill, John son of Thomas, Thomas son of Maurice, Theobald le Butiller, Theobald de Verdun, Peter de Brymyngeham of Anery, Peter de Brymyngeham of Thetemoy, Eustace de Power, John de Power, Hugh Purcell, John de Cogan, John de Barri, William de Barri, Walter de Lascy, Richard de Oxonia, John Pypard, Walter Lenfaunt, Jordan de Oxonia, Adam de Staunton, Simon de Pheybe, William Cadel, John du Val, Maurice de Carreu, George de la Roche, Maurice de Rocheford, and Maurice son of Thomas de Kerri. Request that they will be present with horses and arms on 1 March next at Whytheweyhame, prepared to set out in the king's service, as they have been enjoined to be by John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland, to whom the king lately ordered them to give credence and to do what he should order on the king's behalf. The king himself proposes to be then in those parts.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 24 Edw. I, m. 12d.

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13 Jul 1297, Westminster

To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place, and to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Notification that the king has granted to Geoffrey de Geynvill, who is going with the king by his order to parts beyond sea, respite during the king's pleasure for all debts due to the exchequer, and that he has granted to him that he shall not be distrained by the king or his ministers for tbe debts of any others for so long as he is in the service aforesaid....

16 Jul 1297, Westminster

To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland, and Thomas Cantok, the chancellor. Whereas the king learns by an inquisition taken by Robert de Ufford, late justiciary of Ireland, that Geoffrey de Geynvill and Maud, his wife, hold certain lands in Meath (Midia) of her inheritance that are outside the bounds of any of the king's counties, and that the king's writs were wont before the liberty of Meath was taken into his hands to be directed to Hugh de Lascy and Walter de Lascy, Maud's ancestors, and to their bailiffs there, and that this was altered (niuttatimi) from the time of the taking of the liberty by the king's justiciary, chancellor and other ministers at their will and not for any other cause, and that it is not to the king's damage that his writs should be directed immediately to Geoffrey and Maud and their bailiff's of the liberty, as was wont to be done in times past ; for which reason the king granted to them that his writs shall be directed immediately to them or to their bailiff's of that liberty, in accordance with the tenor of the inquisition, and as they were wont to be directed to Maud's ancestors before the liberty was taken into the late king's hands, and ordered Stephen, bishop of Waterford, his justiciary, and his chancellor of Ireland to direct his writs to Geoffrey and Maud and her heirs, and to their bailiffs, in form aforesaid ; and the king now learns from the complaint of Geoffrey and Maud that the justiciary and chancellor in some cases cause the writs to be directed to them immediately and in other cases mediately by the return of the sheriff of Dublin, to the injury of their liberty aforesaid and contrary to the tenor of the said inquisition and contrary to the form of the king's grant and order : the king, being unwilling that they shall be injured by the justiciary or his ministers contrary to the said grant, orders them to direct his writs to Geoffrey and Maud and to her heirs and to their bailiffs in form aforesaid, and in accordance to the king's order to the aforesaid Stephen, which is in their hands. It they have in any case directed his writs to Geoffrey and Maud mediately by the return of the sheriff of Dublin, they are to certify the king in what case and for what reasoli they have done so, returning to him this writ, so that he may cause to be done in this matter what ought to be done of right and by his council.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 25 Edw. I, m. 12d, m. 9.

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8 Apr 1298, Westminster

Protection with clause volumus, until a year after Midsummer, for Thomas de Sancto Omero, staying beyond seas on the king's service in the company of Geoffrey de Genevill.

9 Nov 1298, Durham

Appointment of Geoffrey de Genevill, knight, and Masters John Lovel and Thomas de Logore, king's clerks, to obtain redress from Masters William de Beaufort, John de Fort, and Clement de Sani, envoys of the king of France, for offences committed by the French since the truce, and to receive hostages for the persons taken on the English side.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edw. I, vol. 3, pp. 340, 371

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14 Apr 1300, St. Albans

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Geoffrey de Geynvill to have respite for one [year ?] for all debts due to the exchequer, as the king has granted this respite to Geoffrey, who is going to the Roman court by the king's order for certain affairs touching him and his realm.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 28 Edw. I, m. 10d.

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28 Oct 1302, Westminster

To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to summon Roger de Huntingfeld by two men of that county to be before the king in fifteen days from Martinmas to show cause why Geoffrey de Genevill ought not to have the manor of Francton, in accordance with the form of the Dictum of Kenilworth and with the agreement made between Geoffrey and William son of William de Huntingfeld for the ransom of the dower of Joan, late the wife of William de Huntingfeld [the father], when it should fall in, as the late king granted by his charter to Geoffrey all the lands that belonged to William son of William de Huntingfeld, which were in the said king's hands as forfeited by reason of the enmity and rebellion of William during the time of the disturbance in England, to have with the dower of the said Joan when it should fall in, to be redeemed in accordance with the form of the Diction and with the aforesaid agreement, as the said Roger, son and heir of William de Huntingfeld, the younger, has now entered the manor upon Joan's death, and deforces it from Geoffrey contrary to the form of the Dictun and the agreement, and the king wiils that Geoffrey shall not be wronged in this behalf, and Geoffrey has found him as security to prosecute his claim Richard de Walsingham, knight, of Co. Norfolk, and William son of Walter de Sharnefeld, of co. Hereford.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 30 Edw. I, m. 2d.

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21 Jan 1303, Guildford

Enrolment of letters patent of George de Laverton witnessing receipt from Sir Geoffrey de Geynvill and Sir Nicholas de Geynvill, his son, of £90, in which they were indebted to him by a recognisance made in the exchequer at Westminster before the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Dated at the New Temple, London, on Monday after the Conversion of St. Paul, 81 Edward.

1 Aug 1303, Arbroath

To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to supersede until the quinzaine of Michaelmas the demand by summons of the exchequer from Joan, late the wife of Peter de Geynvill, daughter [sic] of Geoffrey de Geynvill, for £223 6s. 8d., by reason of the lands in her hands that belonged to Geoffrey, as the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin have signified the king at his order that Geoffrey paid into that exchequer £56 13s. 4d. of the £223 6s. 8d. received by him from the king in England as a loan, which the king granted to him that he should pay by 50 marks yearly to that exchequer.
The like to the sheriff of Salop

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 31 Edw. I, m. 18d., m. 5

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2 Sep 1304, Horton

To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Whereas the king, on 18 April, in the twenty-eighth year of his reign, in aid of the acquittance of the debts in which Edmund de Mortuo Mari, now deceased, tenant in chief, was bound to Geoffrey de Geynvill and Maud his deceased wife, granted licence by his letters patent to Edmund to demise to Geoffrey and Maud in his manors of Stratfeld Mortimer, Worthimortymer, Clebury, and Wiggomore £120 yearly of land and rent, for eight years from the Invention of the Holy Cross in the said year ; and Edmund has assigned to them in the manor of Stratford Mortimer, co. Berks, £42 yearly, in the manor of Wordy, co. Hants, £18 yearly, in the manor of Wiggemor and in the hamlets of Borington and Leynthale Starkeres, co. Hereford, £30 17s. 8d., and in the manor of Clebury, co. Salop, £29 2s. 3d. yearly, to have as of the value of £120 yearly as above, as the king learns by the inquisitions taken by the escheator concerning the lands that belonged to Edmund and returned into chancery: the king orders the escheator to deliver the said £120 yearly of land and rent to Geoffrey, to hold as above, together with the issues thereof received by the escheator, who took them into the king's hands by reason of Edmund's death.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 32 Edw. I, m. 6

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1 Jun 1306, Westminster

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer at Dublin. Order to cause Geoffrey de Geynvill to have allowance and compensation for the debts due to him from the king in the debts that he owes to the king, by account to be made between the said treasurer and barons and him and by inspection of the rolls of that exchequer, as he has besought the king to cause such allowance to be made to him.

16 Oct 1306, Lanerost

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to cause allowance to be made to Geoffrey de Geynvill in the debts due from him to the said exchequer for the arrears of the yearly fee of 25 marks for compensation for the castles of Blathagh and Droghda and of the town of Drogh[d]a on the side of Meath (Midie), as he ought to have such fee and as Maud, his late wife, and her ancestors were wont to receive it at that exchequer until Michaelmas, in the fourth year of the king's reign, as is contained in a certificate made by Edmund le Butiller, lately supplying the place of the justiciary of Ireland, by the king's order and sent to him in England, and Geoffrey has given the king to understand that the fee is in arrear from the said term until now, and he has besought the king to cause him to have allowance for the arrears thereof in the debts aforesaid.

Calendar of the Close Rolls, 34 Edw. I, m.11, m. 3