Geoffrey de Armenters

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹¹¹⁶
Geoffrey son of Henry had probably succeeded by 1218, when he acquired land in Burley from Robert son of Ralph. In 1228 Geoffrey and his heirs were exempted from serving on assizes and juries [Cal. Close R. 1227\endash 31, 53]. In 1230 he was one of the commissioners on the Assize of Arms for Rutland [Ibid. 401], and held many other local appointments [Ibid. 1231\endash 4, 586; 1234\endash 7, 191, 553]. He paid 4 marks in 1235\endash 6 for 2 fees of the honour of Gant in Rutland [Bk. of Fees (P.R.O.), i, 506]. His son John by his first wife Juliana, daughter of Gilbert de Gant, his paramount lord [Baker, loc. cit.], had respite from becoming a knight in 1253 [Cal. Close R. 1251\endash 3, 444]. Both this John and his brother Henry died without issue and their half-sister Alice, daughter of Geoffrey de Armenters by a second wife, daughter of Peter Picot, became heiress of the Armenters estates. Her custody was given in 1256 to her overlord, Gilbert de Gant [Excerpt. e Rot. Fin. ii, 225, 444]. The heiress Alice had married Gerard de Lisle before 1275/6 [Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii, 54]. Gerard had quittance of general summons in the counties of Northampton, Rutland and Norfolk in 1285 [Cal. Close R. 1279\endash 88, 364, 406, 407], and was dead by 1288 [Ibid. p. 554]. Alice, who survived him, married Sir Nicholas de Segrave. Nicholas de Segrave held half a fee there in 1305 [Feud. Aids, iv, 204], and in 1312/13 the manor was settled on Nicholas and Alice and their issue male, with remainder in default to John de Lisle, third son of the heiress Alice [Feet of F. Rutl. Hil. 6 Edw. II, no. 8]. Nicholas de Segrave was still in possession of the manor in 1316 [Feud. Aids, iv, 208; Inq. a.q.d. cxii, 1], and died in 1322 [G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vii, 104.], when John de Lisle succeeded. He and his brother Sir Warin were partisans of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, Sir Warin being hanged at Pontefract in 1322. John forfeited his lands, and Burley was given into the custody of Edmund de Assheby [Rolls of Parl. ii, 383 a].

'Parishes: Burley', in A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1935), pp. 112-119.

Geoffrey married Juliana de Gaunt, daughter of Sir Gilbert de Gaunt Knight and Unknown.¹¹¹⁶

Geoffrey next married Daughter of Peter Picot.¹¹¹⁶