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De Mandeville is the
surname
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Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
of an old
Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
noble family originating from
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
. The first records are about
Geoffrey de Mandeville, Norman conqueror.
[Keats-Rohan, pp. 226–227.] The de Mandeville family held lands in England and France.
French origin
The family descend from Geoffrey de Mandeville.
England
Geoffrey de Mandeville was a companion of
William the Conqueror
William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first House of Normandy, Norman List of English monarchs#House of Norman ...
in 1066. Geoffrey obtained lands in Wiltshire, Essex and others and was appointed the
Constable of the Tower of London
The Constable of the Tower is the most senior appointment at the Tower of London. In the Middle Ages a constable was the person in charge of a castle when the owner—the king or a nobleman—was not in residence. The Constable of the Tower had a ...
.
The sons of
Geoffrey Fitz Peter
Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex (c. 1162–1213) was a prominent member of the government of England during the reigns of Richard I and John. The patronymic is sometimes rendered Fitz Piers, for he was the son of Piers de Lutegareshale (born ...
and Beatrice de Say adopted the surname of de Mandeville in the right of their mother as co-heiress of her grandfather
Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex
Geoffrey de Mandeville II, 1st Earl of Essex (died September 1144) was a prominent figure during the reign of King Stephen of England. His biographer, the 19th-century historian J. H. Round, called him "the most perfect and typical presentment of ...
, after that line ended.
Citations
References
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Medieval English families
Anglo-Norman families
De Mandeville family