Sir Geoffrey de Say Knight, Baron de Say

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Geoffrey de Say III, son and heir, proved his age on or shortly before 15 Feb 1302/3. On 28 Oct 1304 he was granted protection, as going beyond the seas with Edward Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester; on 22 Mar 1306/7 he was ordered to be at London on the morrow of Holy Trinity to set out with Edward Prince of Wales for France. In 1308 he was summoned to attend the Coronation with his consort in the train of the King and Queen. He was summoned to serve against the Scots in 1310 and 1311. In 1311 he was involved in a dispute with the Sheriff of Kent as to his liability for the construction and repair of Rochester bridge. He was summoned to Parliament from 26 Jul 1313 to 14 May 1321 by writs directed Galfr[id]o de Say, whereby he is held to have become Lord SAy. On 20 Sep 1313 the Justices in Eyre in Kent were ordered to respite until the quinzaine of Michaelmas all matters touching Juliane de Leyburn, Henry de Leyburn, and Geoffrey de Say. He was again summoned to serve against the Scots in every year from 1314 to 1319. In 1315 he was requested to continue in the northern parts during the winter campaign, and to repair to the King on 1 November.

In 1318, a commission issued to deliver the gaol of the castle of Canterbury of Juliane de Leyburn, Geoffrey de Say and others for receiving Robert Coleman atte Mersh, an outlaw in Kent for divers felonies (n). In October he obtained his writ for scutage. On 21 April 1321 he was requested to co-operate in appeasing disturbances and to refrain from attending any illegal confederacies or assemblies; and in November 1321 he was ordered to abstain from the meeting of the " Good Peers" to be held at Doncaster, illegally convened by the Earl of Lancaster. In the same month a Commission of oyer and terminer issued to him with two others to try the persons who had defended Leeds Castle, Kent, against the Queen. On 6 February 1321/2 he was enjoined to raise as many men-at-arms and foot-soldiers as he could, and to hold himself in readiness to march with them to the King and later to appear with his forces at Coventry on 28 February to march against the rebels or adherents of the Earl of Lancaster.

Geoffrey de Say married Idonia, daughter of William de Leyburn, Lord Leyburn, by Juliane, daughter and heir of Sir Henry de Sandwich. He died before 3 Mar 1321/2. Idonia had Birling and Burharn assigned to her in dower 15 Apr 1322. Geoffrey had before his death settled his manor of West Greenwich on her and himself, with successive remainders to their sons Geoffrey, Roger and Ralph and the heirs of their bodies. He had also 3 daughters, Katharine, who married John (afterwards 3rd Lord St. John of Lageham), son of John de St. John of Lageham); Juliane, who married Sir Roger de Northwode; and Isabel or Elizabeth, who married John de Chaumpaign

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Say), Vol. XI, pp. 474-475

Geoffrey married Idonea de Leyburne, daughter of Sir William Leyburne Knight, Baron de Leybourne and Juliane de Sandwich.¹⁴¹ (Idonea de Leyburne was born in Leybourne, Malling, Kent, England and died after 4 Nov 1337 in Kent, England ¹⁴¹.)