Geoffrey de Mandeville (died c. 1100), also known as de Magnaville (from the Latin de Magna Villa "of the great town"), was a Constable of the Tower of London.K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999) pp. 226–7Ronald Sutherland Gower, The Tower of London, Vol. ii (George Bell & Sons, 1902), p. 179 Mandeville was a Norman, from one of several places that were known as Magna Villa in the Duchy of Normandy. These included the modern communes of Manneville-la-Goupil and Mannevillette.http://www.villages76.com/pagesmannevillette/ecolehistorique.html#histoire Mannevillette History (in French) Some records indicate that Geoffrey de Mandeville was from Thil-Manneville, in Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandy (upper Normandy).Lewis Christopher Loyd, The origins of some Anglo-Norman Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1999) pp. 57–8Alexander Malet, The Conquest of England, (Bell and Daldy, London, 1860) p. 191 n. 18
Life
An important Domesday tenant-in-chief, de Mandeville was one of the ten richest magnates of the reign of William the Conqueror. William granted him large estates, primarily in Essex, but in ten other shires as well.J. H. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, (Longmans, Green, 1892), p. 37 He served as the first sheriff of London and Middlesex,David C. Douglas,William the Conqueror (University of California Press, 1964). p. 297 and perhaps also in Essex, and in Hertfordshire. He was the progenitor of the de Mandeville Earls of Essex.George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. V (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1926), pp. 113–16 About 1085 he and Lescelina, his second wife, founded Hurley Priory by the River Thames in Berkshire, as a cell of Westminster Abbey.K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999) p. 227J. H. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, (Longmans, Green, 1892), p. 38
Family
He married firstly, Athelaise (Adeliza) (d. bef. 1085), by whom he had:
William de Mandeville (d. bef. 1130), married Margaret dau. of Eudo, dapifer, who m. 2ndly Otuer fitz Count.K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999), p. 194 Beatrice de Mandeville, m. Geoffrey FitzEustace, natural son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne.K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999), p. 229 Geoffrey was Lord of Carshalton, SurreyAnn Williams, G.H. Martin, Domesday Book; A Complete Translation, (Penguin Books, 1992) p. 85 Walter, who was also one of his tenants in 1086.
He married secondly Lescelina, by whom he had no children.
References
Additional references Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Line 158A-23.