Geoffrey of England Duc de Bretagne, Earl of Richmond 1 2 3 4
- Born: 23 Sep 1158 3 5
- Marriage (1): Constance de Bretagne Duchesse de Bretagne in Jul 1181 1
- Died: 19 Aug 1186, Paris, Île-de-France, FR aged 27 3 5 6
- Buried: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, FR
Cause of his death was Trodden to death by a horse during a tournament.
General Notes:
GEOFFREY (23 Sep 1158-Paris 19 Aug 1186, bur Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris). Robert of Torigny records the birth "1158 IX Kal Oct" of "filius Henrico regi Anglorum…Gaufredus". Ralph de Diceto´s Abbreviationes Chronicorum record in 1158 that "Alienor regina" gave birth to "filium...Gaufridum". He was proclaimed Duke of Brittany in 1169 by his father. Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond de iure uxoris shortly after 6 Sep 1181. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines records the death "in civitate Paris XIV Kal Sep" of "Gaufridus dux Britannie comes Richemontis filius Henrici regis Anglie natu tertius". He was trodden to death by a horse during a tournament in Paris. Ralph de Diceto´s Abbreviationes Chronicorum record in 1186 that "Gaufridus dux Britanniæ filius regis Anglorum" was buried "Parisius in ecclesia majore".
m (Betrothed 1168, Jul 1181) as her first husband, CONSTANCE de Bretagne, daughter of CONAN IV Duke of Brittany & his wife Margaret of Scotland ([1161]-[Nantes] 3/4 Sep 1201, bur Villeneuve-les-Nantes, Abbaye de Notre-Dame). She is named by Matthew Paris, who also states her parentage when recording her betrothal. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Constantiam comitis Conani filia" as wife of "Gaufridus dux Britannie comes Richemontis filius Henrici regis Anglie natu tertius", specifying that she married [thirdly] "Guido frater vicecomitem de Tuart". She succeeded her father in 1171 as CONSTANCE Dss of Brittany. Robert of Torigny records the marriage in 1182 of "Gaufredus dux Britanniæ filius regis Henrici" and "filiam Conani comitis Britanniæ". She married secondly (3 Feb 1188, repudiated 1198) Ranulf "de Blundeville" Earl of Chester . The Annales Cestrienses record in 1188 that "Rannulphus comes Cestrie"was knighted "in die circumcisionis domini apud [Cadomum]" by King Henry II who also granted him "relictam [Galfridi filii sui]...comitissam Britannie filia Alani comitis Britannie...Constancia et toto comittatu de Richemund" whom he married "in die Sancte Werburge...III Non Feb apud---". The Genealogia Comitum Richemundiæ records that "Constantia filia Conani" married secondly "Ranulphus Comes Cestriæ", stating that he divorced her because of her adultery and that the marriage was childless. Living apart from her second husband, he captured her at Pontorson in 1196 and imprisoned her at his castle at Beuvron. She was liberated in Summer 1198, and repudiated her marriage. She married thirdly (Oct 1199) as his first wife, Guy de Thouars , who was chosen in 1203 as Guy Duke of Brittany. The Genealogia Comitum Richemundiæ records that "Constantia filia Conani" married thirdly "Guidoni de Thoarcio". The Annals of Burton record the death in 1201 of "Constantia mater Arthuri comitis Britanniæ". The Genealogia Comitum Richemundiæ records the death in 1201 of "Constantia filia Conani" and her burial "apud Begar". The Chronicon Britannicum records the death "III Non Sep" in 1201 of "Constantia Ducissa Britanniæ". Another Chronicon Britannicum records the death "pridie non Sep" in 1201 of "Constantia comitissa, Conani filia, mater Arturi". The Chronicon Ruyensis Cœnobii records the death in 1201 of "Constantia Comitissa apud Nannetum". She died in childbirth.
Duke Geoffroy & his wife had [three] children: Mathilde, Eleonore and Arthur.
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Constance married, 1stly, Geoffrey, 4th son of HENRY II, by ELEANOR of Aquitaine, born 23 September 1158; on his marriage in 1181 he was recognised as DUKE OF BRITTANY and EARL OF RICHMOND; he had previously in May 1169 received the homage of the Breton barons at Rennes. He left England for Brittany in 1179, and the only later occasion on which he seems to have been in England was in 1184, the probable date of a charter which he executed at Winchester confirming to Kirkstead Abbey land in Gayton le Wold, Lincs, which Duke Conan had given. On 30 March 1184 at Rennes he confirmed an agreement between the priory of St. Cyr and Geoffrey de la Guerche. At Rennes in 1185, in conjunction with Constance, he issued his celebrated assize regulating the succession to lands in Brittany held by barony or military tenure, and at Nantes in 1186 a charter for the abbey of Buzay. He was killed in a tournament at Paris on 19 August 1186, and buried in the quire of the cathedral there.
[Complete Peerage X:794-7, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] 7
Death Notes:
In a tournament.
Events
• Title: Comte de Bretagne (1171-86); 3rd Earl of Richmond.
Geoffrey married someone Constance de Bretagne Duchesse de Bretagne, daughter of Conan IV de Bretagne Duc de Bretagne, Earl of Richmond and Margaret of Huntingdon, in Jul 1181.1 (Constance de Bretagne Duchesse de Bretagne was born about 1161,4 died about 5 Sep 1201 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, 44000, FR 4 8 9 and was buried on 24 Nov 1225 in Abbaye de Notre Dame de Villeneuve, Les Sorinières, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, 44840, FR 4.)
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