Sir Geoffrey de Genenville 1st Lord Geneville
- Born: Abt 1226, Dublin, Ireland 160
- Marriage: Maud de Lacy in 1252 in Trim, Meath, Ireland 160
- Died: 21 Oct 1314, Trim, Meath, Ireland about age 88 160
 General Notes:
~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 71:30, 71A:30, son of Simon de Joinville, Senechal of Champagne, Seigneur de Vaucouleurs, France and his wife Beatrix. He was the husband of Maude de Lacy, daughter of Gilbert de Lacy and Isabel Bigod. 160
Information about this person:
• Background Information. 535
Sir Geoffrey de Genevill, 38 Henry III, had livery of the castle of Trim, in Ireland. Four years later he received a military summons to march against the Welsh, and in 44 Henry III, being one of the barons marchers, he had command to repair the castle of Wales, and to reside there. In 10 Edward I, he was in the expedition made against the Welsh and in fifteen years subsequently, he was in the wars of Gascony. For all which services he was summoned to parliament as a baron, 6 Feb 1299, and from that period forth until 3 Nov 1306. He married Maud, daughter and heir of Gilbert de Lacey, son of Walter de Lacey, Lord of Meath. The children of Maud and Sir Geoffrey were:
Geoffrey, who d.s.p. in the lifetime of his father.
Peter, his successor
Sir Simon, Lord of Culmullin, married to Joan Fitz-Leon, Lady of Culmullin and had issue of daughters: Matilda, married to Baldwyn, Lord Slane; Elizabeth, married to Sir William Loundres, Baron of Naas; and Joan married to John Cusack.
~ Burke's A Genealogical History of the Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, 1866 Edition, p. 288
Geoffrey married Maud de Lacy, daughter of Gilbert de Lacy and Isabel le Bigod, in 1252 in Trim, Meath, Ireland.160 (Maud de Lacy was born about 1232-1240 in Dublin, Ireland and died on 11 Apr 1304.)
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