Family:
Bibliography
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Utzinger, David, Amicia sister of Geoffrey Bishop of Coutances. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 11/16/1999. Subject: Nigel D'Aubigny, Sctutifer Conquestoris. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/5Dx_lVCLatU/m/e85a1VsnECkJ. Author address: UTZ at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: David Utzinger SGM 11/16/1999].
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Foss, Edward, Biographia Juridica, Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, London: John Murray, 1870. Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oBAAAAQAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Foss Judges p[0-9]*].
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Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol I: Domesday Book. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 1. Corrections in Volume II (Domesday Descendants) pp 4-5. Further corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-people-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p[0-9]*].
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Sanders, I. J., English Baronies, A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086-1327. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sanders Baronies p[0-9]*].
- place:
- [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p228],
- nephew:
- Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p228,
Sanders Baronies p104],
- note:
- member of the noble Norman house of Mowbray [Ref: Foss Judges p294]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p228]
- 4 Feb 1093 [Ref: Foss Judges p294],
- place:
- [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p228]
Research Notes:
Bishop of Coutances [Ref: Foss Judges p294, Keats-Rohan DP p228, Sanders
Baronies p104]
relative of Nigel de Saint-Sauveur, vicomte of the Cotentin [Ref: Keats-Rohan
DP p228]
1048: elected Bishop of Constance (Constantia) in Lower Normandy [Ref: Foss
Judges p294]
Bishopric was purchased for him by his brother Malger, leading to an
accusation of simony against Geoffrey at the Council of Reims in 1049. In the
end Pope Leo IX accepted the validity of Geoffrey's consecration [Ref:
Keats-Rohan DP p228]
1049-1093 Bishop of Coutances, Manche [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p228]
1066: fought at the Battle of Hastings [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p228]
Domesday Lord of Barnstaple [Ref: Sanders Baronies p104]
according to Orderic Vital, "one of the bishops with attendant clerks and
monks, whose duty it was to aid the war with their prayers and councils."
[Ref: David Utzinger SGM 11/16/1999]
Sep 1092: conducted the funeral of his kinsman Nigel de Saint-Sauveur [Ref:
Keats-Rohan DP p228]
on his death, the estates which formed the basis of the Barony of Barnstaple
passed to his nephew, Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland [Ref:
Keats-Rohan DP p228, Sanders Baronies p104]
Pedigree of Geoffrey De MOWBRAY, Bishop Of Coutances
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Geoffrey De MOWBRAY, Bishop Of Coutances
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