Geoffrey (Talbot) de Talbot

Born [date unknown] in Normandy, France

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Biography

This profile is part of the Talbot Name Study.

In Domesday Book, Geoffrey was a tenant of Hugh de Gournai in Essex. Their original French patrimony was apparently at Sainte-Crois-sur Buchy near Rouen, also under Gournai, and they also held a lordship at Cleuville under the Giffards.

He is thought to be the Geoffrey who was a tenant of Gundulf of Rochester in 1100-3.

This same Geoffrey appears to be the one who was dead just before the Pipe Roll of 1129/30 when his widow Agnes paid 2 gold marks for her dowry. The new Geoffrey ("II") who appeared in that same roll and died 1140 is presumed to be their son.

Sources

• Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p.231
• Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, p.1122
• Sanders, English Baronies p.144
• Complete Peerage, 2nd ed., Vol.9, p.425

Also:

• FMG: GEOFFREY [I] Talbot ([1050/65]?-before 1130). [1] -- not the son of Richard Talbot and Amacie Gourney.
• Gardener, J. (1917). The English ancestry of Peter Talbot of Dorchester, Mass, p 2-3. Boston, MA. Archive.org.
• Wikipedia: Geoffrey Talbot (died 1129) (accessed April 25, 2016). - not the son of Richard Talbot and Amacie Gourney.
• CAUTION: The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the Norman Lineages, Volume 3, p 164 [2] -- lists Geoff. as son of Gerard de Gournay