Geoffrey Murdac

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Thurstan de Montfort married Juliane, daughter and coheir of Geoffrey Murdac.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, (Montfort), pp. 120-121

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁶³
Geoffrey Murdac had a daughter, Juliana, who married Thurstan de Montfort, to whom she brought Great Ayton and other lands in Yorkshire in dower, so that in 1166 Thurstan held 3¾ kinght's fees of Roger de Mowbray [Red Bk., 420], besides what he held of Robert de Meinil II.. Thurstan had issue, Robert and Henry, the last named being a father of another Thurstan. In Michaelmis term, 1209(?), this Thurstan demanded a moiety of the town of Langton (E.R.) against Eustace de Vescy as his right and inheritance, taking vestures thereof to the vaule of 100s. and more, to Juliana his daughter, who held that land as her reasonable share which belonged to her, and from Juliana to Robert her son, and from Robert to Henry, brother of the said Robert and father of the said Thurstan, and from him to Thurstan [R. de Fin., 346].

~Early Yorkshire Charters, Vol. II, p. 358