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From: "Douglas Richardson" < >
Subject: Geoffrey de Chester, brother of Sir Roger de Lacy, Constable of Chester
Date: 10 Oct 2005 15:11:09 -0700
Dear Newsgroup ~
Below is a history of Geoffrey de Chester (died 1206), younger brother
of Sir Roger de Lacy (otherwise Roger de Chester), hereditary Constable
of Chester (died 1211). As we can see, Geoffrey, while married, left
no surviving issue. His wife, Isabel de Rye, was the younger sister of
Aline de Rye, wife of John Marshal, which couple are ancestral to the
Lords Morley.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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I. GEOFFREY OF CHESTER, 4th son. Sometime prior to 1190, he witnessed
a charter of his father's to Lenton Priory, Nottinghamshire, and a
charter of his father's dated 1175-1190 to Watton Priory. He married
before Easter term 1201 ISABEL DE RYE, younger daughter and co-heiress
of Hubert de Rye, by Margaret, daughter of William Fitz Rocelin. They
had no issue. He witnessed a charter of his brother, Roger de Lacy,
dated 1200-1211. He also witnessed an agreement made in the court of
his brother, Roger, in 1201. In Easter term 1201 he and John Marshal
(husband of his wife's elder sister, Aline) entered into a judicial
agreement with the Tenplars whereby the latter acknowledged their
hereditary rght to Aslackby, Lincolnshire. GEOFFREY DE CHESTER died in
1206. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) before Michaelmas 1207 Roger de
Cressy. They had two sons, Hugh and Stephen. She died without
surviving issue in 1263.
References:
W.A. Hulton ed., The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey 1
(Chetham Soc. 10) (1847): 182-187; 2 (Chetham Soc. 11) (1847): 393; 3
(Chetham Soc. 16) (1848): 403, 801-802. William Farrer ed., Early
Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 199 (chart), 213-214. Complete Peerage 8
(1932): 527, footnote a (sub Marshal). A. Mary Kirkus ed., The Great
Roll of the Pipe for the Ninth Year of the Reign of King John,
Michaelmas 1207 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 22) (1946): 178. Hatton, Book of
Seals (1950): 216-217, 358. Geoffrey Barraclough ed., Facsimiles of
Early Cheshire Charters (1957): 18-20.
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