Sir Geoffrey de Dutton (died about 1248)

Sir Geoffrey took part in the Fifth Crusade (1219-1221).

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1248.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Ormerod (1:573).

Relationships

Father: Adam de Dutton.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (1:573).

Mother: Agnes, daughter of Roger fitz Alured.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (1:573).

Spouse: uncertain.

Ormerod (1:573) has “Qy. Alice, fil. John de Lacy, Baron of Halton”. But see below.

Children:

Sir Geoffrey de Dutton married (1) unknown; married (2) Isabel.

Evidence

From the Appendix to The Twenty-Sixth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (Chester Plea Rolls):

(p. 36):

40 Hen. 3. Dutton, Agnes, who was the wife of G. de [Dutton], against Geoffrey, son of Geoffrey….. de Mascy. Dower of lands, &c., in Clinton, Runcore, and Thellwalle. [40-46 Hen. 3. m. 1.]

References

Hurlock, Kathryn. "A Transformed Life? Geoffrey of Dutton, the Fifth Crusade, and the Holy Cross of Norton" in Northern History, 54:1, pp. 15-27. (2017)

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).

The Twenty-Sixth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London, 1862).