John FITZGEOFFREY, JUSTICAIR OF IRELAND SIR
Source includes, but is not limited to: Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints.(JFN) Note: John was a man of great wealth and position, who was appointed Justice of England, and at the coronation of King John, June 26, 1199, was girt with the sword, as Earl of Essex, and then served at the King's table). John Fitz-Goeffrey, on the death of his half-brother William in 1227, paid a fine to the King of 300 marks for those lands which were his father's and did by inheritance rightly belong to him, and whereof this last Earl William died seized. In the 18th of Henry III, this John was constituted Sheriff of Yorkshire, and in the same reign was admitted one of the Privy Council, and the same year was one of those sent to the Pope to prohibit his attempting anything therein prejudicial to the interests of the King and kingdom. In eight years afterwards John Fitz-Goeffrey was one of the commissioners sent from King Henry III, with Roger Bigod and others, to the Council at Lyons, in order to complain of the great exactions made upon the realm by the Holy See; the next year he was constituted Justice of Ireland, where for his services he received a grant from the crown of the Isles of Thomond. Adult in 1227, Justiciar of Ireland, 1245-1256.
Source includes, but is not limited to: Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints (JFN). Death Surety:2
Source includes, but is not limited to: Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints.(JFN)
Source includes, but is not limited to: Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints.(JFN) Her first husband was Gerard de Furnival, of Sheffield, Yorkshire.
He married Isabel Bigod, Duchess of Sussex Hrh Aft 1230 . Isabel Bigod, Duchess of Sussex Hrh was born at Thetford, Norfolk, England Abt 1222 daughter of Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk Sir and Maud Matilda Margaret Marshall, Countess of Norfolk HRHLady .
They were the parents of 6
children:
Isabel FITZGEOFFrey
born Abt 1233.
Avellina Fitzjohn
John Fitzjohn
born Abt 1240.
Richard Fitzjohn
born Abt 1244.
Maud II FITZGEOFFrey, Lady Hrh
born Abt 1250.
Joan Fitzjohn
born Abt 1250.
John FITZGEOFFrey, Justicair of Ireland Sir died 23 Nov 1238 .
Isabel Bigod, Duchess of Sussex Hrh died 1239 .