The Chronicle of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire names "Margeria et Matilda" as the daughters and co-heiresses of "Gilberto de Lacy" and his wife, adding that Matilda married "Gaufrido de Genyvile" (and naming her son and grandchildren). A manuscript which narrates the descents of the founders of Lanthony Abbey names "Matildis" as second daughter and heiress of "Gilbertus de Lacy", son of "Walterus de Lacy", adding that she married "Galfridi de Geneville", and also lists their descendants. A charter dated 19 Feb 1244 relates to the inheritance of "W. de Lacy in…comitatu [Hereford]" by "Matillidi uxori Petri de Geneva, neptem et unicam heredem predicti Waltheri" and "sorori ipsius Matillidis". A charter dated 14 May 1244 restored to "John de Verdun and Margaret his wife, granddaughter and one of the heirs of Walter de Lascy, and to Peter de Geneve and Matilda his wife, granddaughter and another of Walter´s heirs, all the lands in Meath whereof Walter was seised at his death". Her first marriage is confirmed by Matthew of Paris who names "Matildam elegantem filiam Walteri de Lasey in Hybernia" as wife of "Petrus de Geneure natione Provincialis…" when recording her husband's death in 1249. Henry III King of England granted "Geoffroy de Joinville et Mahaut de Lacy sa femme" rights in the land of Meath held by "Gautier de Lacy, grand-père de Mahaut" by charter dated 8 Aug 1252. "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. 1
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26 Jun 1244, Ely
Grant to Peter de Geneve and Maud his wife of all the issues as well as in rents as other things of the lands late of Walter de Lacy in Myde falling to the said Maud by hereditary right, from the Purification until the receipt of his letters...
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 3, p. 429
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8 Apr 1245, Waltham
Grant to Peter de Geneve that he may hold the manor of Dilun, which the king committed to him as of the value of £40 a year in part payment of his yearly fee of £100 which he used to receive at the Exchequer; and two parts of the lands which Henry son of the king had de baillio nostro in the soke of Waltham, as of the value of two parts of £40 a year; until the lands which are held in dower of the inheritance of Maud de Lacy his wife, in England and Ireland, revert to the said Peter and Maud.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 3, p.450
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25 Apr 1246, Windsor
Mandate to J. son of Geoffrey, justiciary of Ireland, to let Peter de Geneve and Maud de Lascy, his wife, one of the heirs of Walter de Lascy, have a third part of 50 marks a year from then time when he married Maud until the king assign 50 marks a year in lands to the said heirs, as he granted to the said Walter and his heirs in lieu of the lands and castles of Drogheda which he had of the said Walter.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 3, p.479
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3 Oct 1249, Windsor
Appointment, during pleasure, of Maud de Lacy, late the wife of Peter de Genevre, to the keeping of the castle of Windlesor, and a grant to her for this of the yearly castle-guard rents of knights which are held of that castellany, with the king's new purpresture brought into cultivation, and with £10 a year which she ought to receive by the hands of the bailiffs of Windesore and one tun of wine yearly of the king's gift so long as she keeps the castle.
And she is to pay the stipends of two watchmen and one gardener there out of the profits which she receives for the said keeping.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 4, p. 52
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10 Apr 1251, Westminster
Grant to Maud de Lacy, of the manor of Dylun at farm for three years for £40 a year at the exchequers of Easter and Christmas, saving the advowson of the church.
And she has letters to the sheriff of Hereford...to give her seisin thereof.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 4, p. 93
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26 Jul 1253, Portsmouth
Acknowledgement of the right of Geoffrey de Geynvill and Maud his wife touching the wardship of the lands and fees which Theobald le Butiler (Pincerna) held of Walter de Lacy, grandfather of the said Maud, which wardship the said Geoffrey has, at the instance of the king, granted to John son of Geoffrey, justiciary of Ireland, during the minority of the heirs of the said Theobald.
28 Jul 1253, Portsmouth
Grant to Geoffrey de Geynvill and Maud de Lacy, his wife, of the manor of Dilun, to hold at farm for five years from 10 April, 38 Henry III, for £40 a year to be paid at the Exchequer, saving to the king the advowson of the church, and so that £10 a year shall be deducted from the said farm for the manor of Hammes, which Peter de Genevre and the said Maud, sometime his wife, held at farm for the said five years of Imbert de Salinis, to whom the king had granted that manor for life, and which the said Geoffrey and Maud have surrendered to the king to the use of the king's sister Isabel de Croun, to whom the king granted the wardship of that manor during the minority of the heirs of Maurice de Crohun, sometime her husband.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 4, pp. 217, 218
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29 Aug 1254, Bordeaux
Restitution to Geoffrey de Geynvill of the castle of Trum as the right and inheritance of Maud de Lacy, his wife, and mandate to John son of Geoffrey, justiciary of Ireland, to give the said Geoffrey seisin of the said castle and of a moiety of the land to the value of 40 marks a year which the king retained for the keeping of the said castle; and he is to restore the other moiety to the heirs of John de Verdun. The king has restored the said castle to the said Geoffrey as of the said Maud so that they and their heirs shall surrender it to the king and his heirs when they will, whether they be angry or reconciled.
18 Sep 1254, Bordeaux
Grant to to Geoffrey de Gyenvill and Maud de Lacy his wife that in all their lands of Meath they may use their liberties by their own writs according to law and the custom of the land of Ireland, which Walter de Lacy, sometime lord of the said lands, had without writs.
21 Sep 1254, Bordeaux
Restitution to Geoffrey to Geynvill of the castle of Trum as the right and inheritance of Maud de Lacy his wife, with a moiety of 40 marks of land which the king retained for the keeping of the castle; on condition that they surrender the said castle to the king when he wills, whether he be angry or appeased; with mandate in pursuance to John son of Geoffrey, justiciary of Ireland.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 4, pp. 325, 332, 335
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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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29 Oct 1276, Shrewsbury
Geoffrey de Genevill 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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16 Dec 1283, Shrewsbury
Geofi'rey 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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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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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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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. 9.
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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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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. 3
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