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Birth:          ABT 1226 Dublin, Ireland
Death:          21 Oct 1314 
Burial:         Friars Preachers, Trim, Meath, Ireland

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_de_Geneville,_2nd_Baroness_Geneville
Justiciar of Ireland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobald_le_Botiller,_2nd_Chief_Butler_of_Ireland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_de_Geneville,_1st_Baron_Geneville
Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville (1225/33 – 21 October 1314) also known 
as Geoffrey de Joinville, was an Anglo-French noble, supporter of Henry III, who 
appointed him Baron of Trim, County Meath, and, subsequently, a staunch supporter 
of Edward I.
Family and marriage[edit]

Geoffrey was Seigneur of Vaucouleurs in Champagne, second son of Simon de 
Joinville and Beatrix d'Auxonne and younger brother of Jean de Joinville.[1][2] 
Geoffrey's half-sister was wife to one of Eleanor of Provence's uncles, Peter of Savoy, 
earl of Richmond.[3] Geoffrey was thus one of the "Savoyards" who arrived in 
England in the retinue of Eleanor at the time of her marriage to King Henry III in 1236.

Some time between 1249 and 8 August 1252, Henry III arranged Geoffrey's marriage 
to Maud (or 'Mathilda') de Lacy, widow of another Savoyard, Pierre de Genève, 
himself also a relative of Queen Eleanor, who had died in 1249. Maud had been co-
heiress to vast estates and lordships in Ireland, Herefordshire, and the Welsh 
Marches, and the marriage is considered typical of Henry's 'policy' of appointing such 
'aliens' to retain control of the outlying regions of the kingdom.[1] Geoffrey thus came 
to control vast estates in Ireland centred at Trim, the Welsh borders at Ludlow, Ewyas 
Lacy and others in England. Maud and Geoffrey had at least four sons, Geoffrey, 
Simon, William and Peter ('Piers').[3]

Political and military career[edit]

Geoffrey was both a military figure and political negotiator. He successfully pacified 
the Irish pro-Montfort and Royalist barons at this time that assisted the future Edward 
I's success at Evesham. In 1267 he assisted Henry III with negotiations with Llywelyn 
ap Gruffudd, the year of the Treaty of Montgomery.[3] With another of his brothers, 
William, he accompanied Edward on the Eighth Crusade in 1270, fought in Welsh 
Wars, and went on diplomatic missions to Paris. He served as justiciar of Ireland from 
1273 to 1276 but had little success against the Leinster Irish, being heavily defeated 
in 1274 and 1276. In 1280 he acted as Edward's envoy in Paris and to the papal 
curia, a mission repeated ten years later in 1290.

In 1282 he was assistant to the Marshal of England in the Welsh War of that year.

In 1283 He granted his English lands to his son Peter and focussed his attention on 
Ireland.[3] He and his wife defended their liberty rights in Trim against the Dublin 
government, and defined military duties for his tenants.[2]

In 1297 he supported Edward in the crisis caused by royal demands for men and 
money for the war in France. Edward appointed Geoffrey as Marshal of England in 
place of the main dissenter Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk until the crisis was over. 
Geneville subsequently received a number of summonses to parliaments between 
February 1299 and November 1306.[3]

Later life[edit]

Geoffrey's wife and their eldest son pre-deceased him, Maud dying on 11 April 1304.
[3] In 1308, aged about eighty, he conveyed most, but not all, of his Irish lordships to 
Roger Mortimer, husband of his eldest granddaughter and heir, Joan. He retired to the 
Dominican Black Friary at Trim, that he had established 1263.[4] He died 21 October 
1314 and was buried there.[2] Upon his death Joan succeeded him as "suo jure" 
Baroness Geneville.

Parents
DE JOINVILLE Simon (ABT 1190 - ABT Apr 1233)
D'AUXONNE Beatrix (ABT 1200 - )

Siblings
DE GENEVILLE Geoffrey (ABT 1226 - 21 Oct 1314)

Marriage To DE LACY Maud (Mahaut) (ABT 1232 - 11 Apr 1304)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE LACY Gilbert (ABT 1199 - 1234)
BIGOD Isabel (ABT 1212 - 1239)

Children by DE LACY Maud (Mahaut) ABT 1232 - 11 Apr 1304
DE GENEVILLE Piers (1256 - Jun 1292)

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