Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century)

Geoffrey de Mandeville († 1100 ) was Constable of the Tower from the noble Mandeville.

Its name refers to the place ( Thil ) Manneville ( Magna Villa, Villa man ). He was one of the important recorded in the Domesday Book landowner and one of the great magnates of the time of King William I, who had invested him with extensive lands, especially in Essex and in ten other counties. He served as sheriff of London and Middlesex, probably in Essex and Hertfordshire.

Geoffrey de Mandeville included two marriages, the first with Athelaise ( Adeliza ), the second with Lescelina. From the first marriage he had a son, William de Mandeville, who became his heir, and a daughter, Beatrix, who married Geoffroi de Boulogne, Lord of Carshalton, probably a bastard son of Count Eustace II of Boulogne and thus half-brother of Gottfried of Bouillon, Eustace III. Boulogne and King Baldwin I of Jerusalem (House Boulogne ). The second marriage remained childless.

Geoffrey and Lescelina are the founders of the monastery Hurley as an offshoot of Westminster Abbey.