19989834. Baron Geoffrey de Say
~1170,
Geoffrey [the younger] born in England, s/o 39979668. Geoffrey de Say & 39979669. Alice de
Vere.
9/3/1189, Richard I succeeded King Henry II of England.
5/27/1199, John succeeded
King Richard I of England.
1202, The seneschal of
Normandy ordered to give Geoffrey de Say the younger 100 librates ($ of Anjou)
of the land of Juhel de Mayenne to replace the land which he had lost through
the war.
4/15/1208, The sheriff of
Kent ordered to give Geoffrey de Say the younger possession of a moiety of the
manor of Burn, lost by Ralph Tesson.
1210-12, Galfridus de Say
junior holding 7 knights’ fees ‘de honore Patricii’ in Kent. (S) Red Book of
the Exchequer.
Bef. 1214, Geoffrey’s older brother died before their father.
2/1214, King John landed at La Rochelle, France in
an expedition into Poitou.
1214, Geoffrey’s father died.
1214, ‘Galfr de Say’ made a fine for ‘terris q fuerunt G. de
Say patris sui’ in Sussex and Middlesex. Geoffrey made a fine of 400 marks to
have his father’s lands [in England.]
5/5/1215, Revolting Barons formally renounced their
allegiance to King John and invited the King of France to invade England. [The
barons in revolt together held more castles and knights fees than John did as
King. Intervention by the King of France prevented by the Pope.]
1215, Geoffrey joined the confederacy of barons against King
John.
6/19/1215 at Runnymede near Windsor, King John
forced to agree to the terms of the Magna Carta. Geoffrey a signer of the Magna
Carta.
10/17/1215, Geoffrey’s lands were granted to Peter de Craon.
11/20/1215 at Bury St. Edmunds, Geoffrey elected as one of the
25 to guarantee observance of the Magna Carta. (S) History, Gazeteer and Dir.
of Suffolk, 1874, P565.
10/19/1216, Henry III, age 9, succeeded John as King of
England. Louis of France also claimed the throne.
5/20/1217, English forces, with the aid of previous
rebel barons, defeated the French forces at Lincoln, killing the Count of
Perche in the battle.
9/12/1217, For 10,000 marks and land exchanges,
Louis forfeited his claim to the English crown by the treaty at
Kingston-on-Thames. A principal provision of the treaty was amnesty for English rebels.
9/14/1217, Geoffrey’s lands restored.
5/15/1218, Pledges for Robert Marmion taken in court: …
Geoffrey de Say for 20m. (S) FRsHIII.
1219, Geoffrey went on a pilgrimage to the holy lands.
1220, Hubert de Burgh effectively ended baronial
opposition to King Henry with the siege and defeat of the Earl of Aumale at
Bytham castle in Lincoln. Geoffrey at the siege.
10/20/1222, Geoffrey granted a market at Sawbridgeworth,
Hertfordshire. (S) Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs.
1223, Geoffrey went on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella,
Spain.
1224, Geoffrey held 42 knight’s fees in the scutage of
Montgomery.
3/1/1228, The king has committed the manor of Lesnes with
appurtenances to Rose (9994835), wife of Richard of
Chilham , which they recovered by a duel against Robert fitz Walter (60849196),
… she has found Geoffrey de Say, John of Shillingham and William de Lisle as
her pledges, namely 20 m. from each pledge. (S) FRsHIII.
4/3/1228, To the sheriff of Kent, concerning taking a moiety of
Patrixbourne, which is an escheat of the king and which Geoffrey de Say holds
etc., into the king’s hand. (S) FRsHIII.
4/30/1230, From Portsmouth, Geoffrey in the army of King Henry,
invading Brittany in hopes of recovering Normandy. They established their camp
at Nantes, and captured a small castle.
8/19/1230, Geoffrey of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, West
Greenwich, Kent and Sussex died while on service in Poitou, France; buried at
the Hospital of St. Mary, Dover. [King Henry returned his army to England the
following October.] (S) See son William.
(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P727.
Children
of Geoffrey and ?:
i. Matilda de Say (9994917), born ~1190 in England.
1214, Robert
de Vere (94559128, b.1164), 3rd Earl of Oxford, bought of the King the wardship
of the heir [Otes] of William Fitz Oates, a minor, to marry to his niece
[Margaret]. [Roberts only sibling with children was his sister Alice.]
i. William de Say
(121691152), born ~1208 in England.
9/20/1230, Upon the death of Geoffrey de Say, the king took the
homage of William de Say, his son and heir, for all that Geoffrey held of the
king in chief. (S) FRsHIII. [Writs to the sheriffs of Bedfordshire, Kent,
Middlesex and Herefordshire.]
11/13/1235, Order to the sheriffs of Kent and Essex to take
into the king’s hands the lands of William de Say for attending a tournament
against the king’s prohibition. (S) FRsHIII.
ii. Geoffrey de Say,
born ? in England.
3/20/1235, Inspeximus … Maud de Mandeville, countess of
Hereford and Essex, … Witnesses, William de Say, Geoffrey de Say, … (S) CChRs.
10/14/1246, Geoffrey de Say, brother of William de Say, gave a
bond to Aaron son of Abraham the Jew for £30. (S) Ancient Deeds, V3, 1900,
D.369.
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