Geoffrey de Clinton

Chamberlain and sheriff (about 1108 - 1133)

Crouch (ODNB) states that Geoffrey came of a family originating at Semilly in the Cotentin and that “he has been taken by modern writers as the archetype of Henry I’s ‘new man’”. Lloyd (p. 30) gives the place of origin as Saint-Pierre-de-Semilly: Manche, arr. St-Lô, cant. St-Clair, citing Round.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1133.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Crouch (ODNB). Geoffrey is known to have died before 1135.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Keats-Rohan (p. 403) states that Geoffrey was possibly the son of “the Geoffrey chamberlain who founded the priory of Holy Trinity, Wallingford before 1100.”

Uncle: William de Clinton.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 403) and by Crouch (ODNB).

Brother: William de Clinton.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 403).

Spouse: Lescelina.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 403).

Children:

Geoffrey de Clinton (died about 1175) married Agnes, daughter of Roger, earl of Warwick.

Robert de Clinton. A canon of Kenilworth.

Lescelina de Clinton married Norman de Verdun.

References

Crouch, David. “Clinton, Geoffrey of (d. c. 1133)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Loyd, Lewis C. The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families. (1951).

Round, John Horace. "A Great Marriage Settlement" in The Ancestor Volume 11 (London, October 1904) pp. 153-157.