Family name also spelled GYFFARD.
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On 24 Jun 1301 John, son of John Giffard le Boef, was summoned from Devonshire to the muster at Berwick on Tweed, to perform military service against the Scots. His lands at Helidon are mentioned 23 Aug 1312; he was imprisoned at Aylesbury, 7 Jun 1314, for a trespass of vert and venison in the Royal Forest; on 28 Sep 1315 he was knight of the shire for co. Bucks, and in 1316 he was certified as lord of the vills of Twyford, Charndon, and Pounden in co. bucks.
He held the Twyford lands (i.e., two parts) of Ralph Pipard; held lands in Begbrooke, co. Oxford, and in Northamptonshire held half of the manor of Helidon and also lands in Astwell. On 26 Mar 1316, he appears as commissioner to raise soldiers for the Scotch War and on 5 Aug 1316 his orders to select footmen in co. Bucks for the Scotch War were countermanded. On 30 May 1322 John Giffard of Twyford, Knight was summoned from Oxfordshire to the Great Council at Westminster. On 20 Jun 1322 John Gifford, a knight or banneret of co. Beds and co. Bucks, was returned as ill and unable to serve in person against the Scots.
On 24 Jun 1322 John Gifford le Boef, man at arms, was summoned from Northamptonshire to serve against the Scots. On 31 Oct 1322 he was returned as a man at arms between the ages of 16 and 60 years, and was called a knight accustomed to arms but gouty and incapable of acting.
In 1325 John, son of Osbert Giffard, sued him to recover lands in Accott, Devonshire, which Osbert formerly held.
Sir John Giffard le Boef, of Twyford, co. Bucks, Knight, born about 1270, was living 30 Mar 1328, when his son was called John Giffard the Younger of Twyford in the inquisition post mortem of Sir Thomas de Gardinis, but appears to have died shortly thereafter.
On 24 Jun 1301 John, son of John Giffard le Boef, was summoned from Devonshire to the muster at Berwick on Tweed, to perform military service against the Scots. He was imprisoned at Aylesbury, 7 Jun 1314, for a trespass of vert and venison in the Royal Forest. On 28 Sep 1315 he was knight of the shire for co. Bucks, and in 1316 he was certified as lord of the vills of Twyford, Charndon, and Pounden in co. Bucks. 1
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