Geoffrey de Saye

Geoffrey de Saye (1155–1230) was an English nobleman, and a Magna Carta surety.

Geoffrey de Saye
Coat of arms of Geoffrey de Saye
Quarterly, or and gules
Personal details
Bornc. 1155
Died1230

He held land at Edmonton[1] and Sawbridgeworth.[2][3] He had family claims to larger estates, but they had gone to the kinsman Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex. de Saye was a Magna Carta surety and bore the arms Quarterly, or and gules.

Family

Geoffrey de Saye, II, Lord of West Greenwich was born in 1155 in West Greenwich, Kent, England, the son of Geoffrey de Saye, Lord of West Greenwich (1135–1214). He died 24 Aug 1230 in Gascoigne, Poitou, France.

He married Hawise de Clare, with issue:

  • William de Saye, V, (1205–1271), Governor of Rochester Castle in 1261, who married Sibyl, possibly daughter of John Marshal (1213-).

References
  1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26935
  2. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22107
  3. http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/herts.html


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