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Family of John + FITZGEOFFREY and Isabel + BIGOD

Husband: John + FITZGEOFFREY (1213-1258)
Wife: Isabel + BIGOD (1212-1250)
Children: John FITZJOHN (c. 1215-1275)
Isabel + FITZJOHNY (1233- )
Maud + FITZJOHN (1237-1301)
Richard FITZJOHN (c. 1237-1297)
Aveline FITZJOHN ( -1274)
Joan FITZJOHN ( -1303)
Marriage 12 Apr 1234

Husband: John + FITZGEOFFREY

Name: John + FITZGEOFFREY
Sex: Male
Father: Geoffrey + FITZPIERS (1162-1213)
Mother: Aveline + of CLARE (1172-1225)
Birth 1213 Shere, Surrey, England
Occupation Lord of Shere and Justicar of Ireland
Death 23 Nov 1258 (age 44-45)

Wife: Isabel + BIGOD

Name: Isabel + BIGOD
Sex: Female
Father: Hugh + BIGOD (1182-1225)
Mother: Maud + MARSHAL (1192-1248)
Birth 1212 Thetford, Norfolk, England
Occupation Lady of Shere
Death 1250 (age 37-38)

Child 1: John FITZJOHN

Name: John FITZJOHN
Sex: Male
Spouse: Margery BASSET (c. 1220- )
Birth 1215 (est)
Death 1275 (age 59-60)

Child 2: Isabel + FITZJOHNY

Name: Isabel + FITZJOHNY
Sex: Female
Spouse: Robert + of VIPONT (1222-1264)
Birth 1233 Shere, Surrey, England

Child 3: Maud + FITZJOHN

Name: Maud + FITZJOHN
Sex: Female
Spouse 1: Gerald of FURNIVALLE (c. 1235- )
Spouse 2: William + of BEAUCHAMP (1237-1298)
Birth 1237 Shere, Surrey, England
Occupation Countess of Warwick
Title Countess of Warwick
Death 16 Apr 1301 (age 63-64) Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England

Child 4: Richard FITZJOHN

Name: Richard FITZJOHN
Sex: Male
Spouse: Emma (c. 1242- )
Birth 1237 (est)
Death 1297 (age 59-60)

Child 5: Aveline FITZJOHN

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Spouse: Walter of BURGH

Name: Aveline FITZJOHN
Sex: Female
Spouse: Walter of BURGH (1230-1271)
Death 20 May 1274

Child 6: Joan FITZJOHN

Name: Joan FITZJOHN
Sex: Female
Spouse: Theobald of BOTILLER (1242-1285)
Death 4 Apr 1303

Note on Husband: John + FITZGEOFFREY

John FitzGeoffrey, Lord of Shere and Justiciar of Ireland (1205? in Shere, Surrey, England – 23 November 1258) was an English nobleman.

 

John FitzGeoffrey was the son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex and Aveline de Clare, daughter of Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford and his wife Maud de Saint-Hilaire. He was Justiciar of Ireland. He was not entitled to succeed his half-brother as Earl of Essex in 1227, the Earldom having devolved from his father's first wife. He was the second husband of Isabel Bigod, daughter of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk and his wife Maud Marshal of Pembroke. They had six children, one being Maud who married William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick.

 

[edit] ChildrenNote: The males took the FitzJohn surname ("fitz" mean "son of").

 

1.John FitzJohn of Shere (?–1275). Married Margary, daughter of Philip Basset of Wycombe (?–1271).

2.Richard FitzJohn of Shere (?–1297). Lord FitzJohn 1290. Married as her first husband, Emma (?-1332).

3.Maud FitzJohn (? – 16/18 April 1301). Married firstly to Gerard de Furnivalle, Lord of Hallamshire (?–1261). Married secondly to William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick, son of William de Beauchamp of Elmley, Worcestershire and his wife Isabel Mauduit. Had issue.

4.Isabel. Married Robert de Vespont, Lord of Westmoreland (?–1264). Had issue.

5.Aveline (?–1274). Married Walter de Burgh, Earl of Ulster (?–1271). Had issue, including Richard Og de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster who in turn married Margaret de Burgh, by whom he had ten children.

6.Joan (? – 4 April 1303). Married Theobald le Botiller. Had issue, from whom descend the Butler Earls of Ormond.

Note on Wife: Isabel + BIGOD

Isabel Bigod, Lady of Shere (c. 1212–1250) was an English noblewoman, the only daughter of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk.[1] She was the wife of Gilbert de Lacy, of Ewyas Lacy, and John FitzGeoffrey, Lord of Shere.

 

[edit] FamilyIsabel was born in Thetford, Norfolk in about 1212, the only daughter of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, a Magna Carta surety, and Maud Marshal (1192 – 27 March 1248). Her paternal grandparents were Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk and Ida de Tosny, a former mistress of King Henry II of England. Her maternal grandparents were William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke. She had four brothers including Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk and Hugh Bigod. She also had two younger half-siblings John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey and Isabelle de Warenne, by her mother's second marriage to William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey. Isabel's father had died in 1225.

 

[edit] Marriages and issueIn 1225, the year of her father's death, Isabel married her first husband, Gilbert de Lacy, of Ewyas Lacy (c. 1202 – 25 December 1230). He was the son of Walter de Lacy, Lord of Trim Castle and Ludlow Castle, and Margaret de Braose. Gilbert and Isabel's chief residence was Ewyas Lacy in Herefordshire; however, they spent the last two years of their marriage on his father's estates in Ireland, where their youngest child, Maud was born, and Gilbert would shortly afterwards die. Together they had three children:[2]

 

Walter de Lacy (died early 1241)

Margery de Lacy (1228, Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire- 1256), married before 14 May 1244 John de Verdun, Lord of Westmeath by whom she had issue.

Maud de Lacy (1230, Dublin, Ireland[3]- 11 April 1304 Trim Castle, Ireland), married firstly Pierre de Geneve, by whom she had issue; in 1252, she married secondly Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville, Seigneur de Vaucouleurs, by whom she had two sons, Geoffrey de Geneville, and Sir Piers de Geneville, father of Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville.

Gilbert died on 25 December 1230 at Trim Castle, in County Meath, Ireland leaving Isabel a widow at the age of eighteen with three small children. Sometime before 12 April 1234, Isabel married her second husband, John FitzGeoffrey, Lord of Shere, Justiciar of Ireland. The marriage produced six children:[4][5]

 

Richard FitzJohn of Shere (died 1297, married Emma

John FitzJohn of Shere (died 1275), married Margery Basset

Maud FitzJohn (died 16/18 April 1301), married firstly Gerald de Furnivalle, Lord of Hallamshire; she married secondly William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick, by whom she had issue.

Aveline FitzJohn (died c. 20 May 1274), married Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster, by whom she had issue including Richard Og de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster.

Joan FitzJohn (died 4 April 1303), married Theobald le Botiller (1242- 1285 of Thurles, Nenagh, by whom she had issue. Joan and Theobald were the ancestors of the Butler Earls of Ormond.

Isabel FitzJohn, married Robert de Vispont, Lord of Westmoreland by whom she had two daughters.

In early 1241, Isabel's eldest son by her first husband died. Upon the death of her former father-in-law, Walter de Lacy shortly afterwards on 24 February, the vast de Lacy estates and lordships were passed down to Margery and Maud, her daughters by Gilbert. Their marriages were personally arranged by King Henry III to ensure that the estates they inherited were retained in the hands of trusted servants of the Crown.[6]

 

Isabel Bigod died in 1250. She was about thirty-eight years old. Her second husband John died eight years later.