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• Name: Geoffrey De La MARE
• Sex: M
• Death: Abt 6 Dec 1327 ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Peter De La MARE Birth: 5 Death: 1280 in Wales

Family:
Marriage:

• (Unk wife1) on 1 .^m1
  
• (Unk wife1)

Children:

1. Joan De La MARE Death: 9 Aug 1348
2. Mabel De La MARE
3. Geoffrey De La MARE
4. Brian De La MARE

Marriage:

• (Unk wife2) on 2 .^m2
  
• (Unk wife2)

Children:

1. Maud De La MARE Death: 9 Aug 1355

Marriage:

• Cecily GERBERGE on Abt 1324 .^m3
  
• Cecily GERBERGE

Children:

1. Geoffrey De La MARE Birth: Abt 1324

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

father:

[Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

Sources for death Information

date:

shortly before 6 Dec 1327 [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

Sources with Information about marriage to (Unk wife1)

date:

first marriage of Geoffrey [Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 3/29/2015-053358],

names:

Geoffrey De La MARE & ___ [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p343]

Geoffrey de la MARE & unk wife#1 [Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 3/29/2015-053358],

child:

[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p343, Rosie Bevan SGM 3/29/2015-053358]

Sources with Information about marriage to (Unk wife2)

date:

second marriage of Geoffrey [Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 3/29/2015-053358],

names:

Geoffrey de la MARE & unk wife#2 [Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 3/29/2015-053358],

child:

[Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 3/29/2015-053358]

Sources with Information about marriage to Cecily GERBERGE

date:

in or before 1324, as third marriage of Geoffrey [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027],

child:

[Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

Research Notes:
of Maxey, Northborough and Woocroft, Northamptonshire, and Thurlby, Lincolnshire [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

Apr 1294: had protection going beyond seas on the king's service with Humphrey de Bohun [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

1 Aug 1295: granted a weekly market and an annual fair in his manors of Maxey, Northborough and Woodcroft, and free warren in his demesne lands [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

Jan 1297: had letters of respite from debt, going to Brabant with Humphrey de Bohun [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

before Oct 1302: knighted [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

Apr 1303: had protection setting out for Scotland with Humphrey de Bohun [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

4 Mar 1310: had exemption for life from being made sheriff, coroner, or other minister of the king [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

Nov 1318: pardoned as a supporter of Thomas Earl of Lancaster [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

1320: imprisoned in the Tower of London [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

Mar 1321: accused of being involved with Gilbert de Middleton at the robbing of the cardinals and the taking of the bishop of Durham [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

Jun 1324: imprisoned in the Tower of London [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

18 Feb 1325: pardoned for all homicides, robberies, and of his outlawry provided he served in the king's army in Gascony [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

in or about 1345, is a petition to the king by Cecily Gerberge and Geoffrey de la Mare, her son:
"The petition states that Ralph and Joan de Croumbewell, John and Mabel de Folvill, and Hugh and Maud de Crescy brought an assize of novel disseisin against Cecily Gerberge and others concerning lands in Lincolnshire which formerly belonged to Geoffrey de la Mare, father of Joan, Mabel and Maud, although they have no right, as Maud is a bastard and Geoffrey had a son, Geoffrey, by Cecily, who was under age at the time of his death; and because he was under age, and the lands held of the Abbot of Peterborough, the Abbot had wardship of him and his lands, and assigned Thurlby to Cecily in dower. But mention of Geoffrey has deliberately been omitted in the writ for the assize, to bar him from his right; and the plaintiffs have also procured that the writ might be arrayed by the Sheriff of Lincolnshire, although the manor is within the liberty of the Abbot of Peterborough, and the Sheriff had orders from the King to leave the matter to his bailiffs; and they have also procured a jury that is biased and not local. It requests a writ to the justices not to hold an assize arrayed by the Sheriff in this way, but to have it arrayed by the Abbot's bailiffs as the King has commanded."
TNA: Special Collections: Ancient Petitions, SC 8/193/9645 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9295531 [Ref: John Watson SGM 3/28/2015-023027]

Geoffrey de la Mare married three wives. From the first he had two sons, Geoffrey and Brian, and two daughters, Joan and Mabel. His second wife had a daughter named Maud, afterwards wife of Hugh de Cressy. However, because it was said that his son, Geoffrey, had previously had a pre contract with his second wife and had known her carnally, Geoffrey senior procured a divorce through the archdeacon of Essex. Afterwards Geoffrey junior and Brian died during the lifetime of their father. He married a third time, Cecily, who bore him another son named Geoffrey, posthumously. In 1345 the daughters and their husbands brought a suit for the de la Mare inheritance claiming that there could not have been a divorce because the second wife was mad so she could not authorise a deed of proxy, therefore Geoffrey was illegitimate. In the fine that ensued Hugh de Cressy and Maud recognised that Maxey and other tenements were the right of Geoffrey and quitclaimed their interest in them to him for 200 pounds.
[W T Mellows (ed.) Henry of Pytchley's Book of Fees (Northamptonshire Record Society, 1927), p.35-40] [Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 3/29/2015-053358]



Pedigree of Geoffrey De La MARE
                   /-----Brian De La MARE
          /-----Geoffrey De La MARE
 /-----Peter De La MARE
Geoffrey De La MARE



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