Richard II Talbot

Hugh married Beatrice de Mandeville in 1132 in Rickling, Essex, England. Beatrice (daughter of William de Mandeville and Margaret de Rie) was born in 1105 in Mandeville, Normandy, France; died on 19 Apr 1197 in Rickling, Essex, England; was buried in Walden Abbey, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Constable of the Tower of London

William married Margaret de Rie about 1083 in England. Margaret (daughter of Eudo de Rie and Rohese FitzRichard de Clare) was born about 1076 in Rycott, Oxfordshire, England; died in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE
The Conqueror and His Companions
by J. R. Planché, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874..

This progenitor of one of the noblest and most powerful families on either side of the channel is simply alluded to by Wace as "li Sire de Magnevile" (l. 13,562).

The French antiquaries, whilst agreeing as to the individual present at Hastings, differ respecting the locality whence he derived his name; Mons. Le Prévost considering it to be Magneville, near Valonges, whilee Mons. Delisle reports that it was Mandeville le Trévières, the Normanan estates of the Magnavilles, Mandevilles, or Mannevilles, as they were indifferently called, lying partly in the neighbourhood of Creulli, and the rest round Argentan, where, at a later period, they held the honor of Chamboi.

No particular feat of arms is attributed to him by the Norman poet. He is only mentioned as one who rendered great aid in the decisive battle, and we find him in consequence rewarded with ample domains in England at the time of the great survey, amounting to one hundred and eighteen lordships in various counties, of which Walden, in Essex, was the chief seat of his descendants, who became the first Norman earls of that county in the reign of Stephen.

He was also the first Constable of the Tower of London after the Conquest, an office enjoyed by his grandson of the same name, which I mention on account of the interesting fact that, in the charter of the Empress Matilda, which confers this amongst many other honors bestowed upon him, the custody of the Tower of London is granted to him and his heirs, with the little castle there (described, in another charter as under it) which belonged to Ravenger.

This charter in which she creates Geoffrey de Mandeville (grandson of the companion of the Conqueror) Earl of Essex, is stated in a marginal note in Dugdale's Baronage to be "the most ancient creation charter which hath been ever known," and, I may add, for the numberless concessions and privileges recorded in it, the most remarkable.

To return to the first Geoffrey, we learn from his charter of foundation of the Benedictine Monastery of Hurley, in Berkshire, that he was twice married. His first wife Athelaise (Adeliza) being the mother of his heir William de Mandeville, and other children not named; and his second wife, Leceline, by whom he appears to have had no issue.

Mr. Stapleton, in his annotations to the Norman Rolls of the Exchequer, suggests that Adeliza, the first wife of Geoffrey, was sister to Anna, wife of Turstain Haldub, mother of Eudo al Chapel.

Geoffrey married Adeliza de Balts about 1057 in England. Adeliza was born about 1040 in Rycott, Oxfordshire, England; died in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eudo married Rohese FitzRichard de Clare about 1088. Rohese (daughter of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare and Rohese Giffard) was born about 1055 in Tunbridge, Kent, England; died in 1121 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]