Sir Geoffrey de Glanville Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁹⁶
Sir Geoffrey de Glanville, Feudal Lord of Bromholme, Bacton, Keswick and Paston, etc.

On the death of William de Glanville in 1234, without issue, Geoffrey his brother, succeeded him in the several Lordships; Geoffrey also granted a deed of confirmation to Bromholm Priory, of which Sir William de Gynento, Lord of Haverland, Sir Robert, and his brother Sir John de Worstede were witnesses, which deed was likewise confirmed by King Henry the Third. William de Boville petitions Geoffrey de Glanville, as his superior Lord, and from whom he holds the Manor of Letheringham, Suffolk, as in fee, that he will confirm to the Canons of St. Peter, Gipwic, his donation of the Church of St. Mary de Crew, and tenth part of Letheringham and Thorpe (Tanner, ex. Libro, Norwich). In the year 1240 Sir Geoffrey held one Knight's fee of the Lordship of Castle Acre, which, with his other extensive possessions, on his death went to his daughters and coheirs on the decease of his son Geoffrey. In the same year he conveys by fine to Thomas the son of Richard de Backeton free lands in his Lordship of Bacton.

Sir Geoffrey de Glanville married Margaret daughter of Sir Geoffrey de-la-Haye, and by her had issue:

• Geofrey de Glanville, who dying without issue, his property descended to his five sisters and coheirs.
• Margaret de Glanville, married Edmund, Earl of Cornwall.
• Alianore de Glanville, married Lord Almuric Pecche.
• Agnes de Glanville, married Baldwin, a Norman.
• Emma de Glanville, married Sir John de Grey.
• Basilia de Glanville, married Sir William Boville.
• Julian de Glanville, married Sir Simon Pecche.

By the death, of Geoffrey de Glanville, the elder line of the Glanvilles failed, and a part of the lands of that branch went into the families off his sisters.

~Records of the Anglo Norman House of Glanville from A.D. 1050 to 1880, p. 11

Geoffrey married Margaret de la Haye.⁹⁹⁶