Geoffrey de Valognes
Geoffrey de Valognes High Sheriff of Lancashire | |
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 Arms of Geoffrey de Valognes.Or, a cross Gules within a border Azure billette of the first. | |
| Died | 1190 |
| Parent(s) | Roger de Valognes Agnes filia John |
| Family | de Valognes |
Sir Geoffrey de Valognes (died 1190), also known as Geoffrey de Valoines, lord of the manors of Burton, Sutton, Great Saling, Sline, Farleton and Cantsfield was an Anglo-French who served as Sheriff of Lancashire between 1164-1166.[1]
Career
[edit]He was a son of Roger de Valognes by his wife Agnes RitzRichard, a daughter of John FitzRichard.[2] In 1163 he married Emma de Bulmer, daughter of Bertram de Bulmer of Brancepeth Castle by his wife Emma Fossard.
Death and succession
[edit]He died in 1190 without surviving issue. His heir was identified as his niece Gunnora de Valognes, daughter of his brother Robert de Valognes.
Citations
[edit]References
[edit]- Baines, Edward (1836). History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster: Volume 1. Fisher.
- Powlett (Duchess of Cleveland), Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina (1889). The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the Norman Lineages, Volume 3. J. Murray.