Geoffrey I Ridel

- 1120

• Name	Geoffrey I Ridel  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Nov 1120	At sea, off Barfleur, Normandy, France   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I10394	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	30 Nov 2023

  
  

  Family	Geva of Chester,   b. of Chester, Cheshire, England d. Aft 1120
  Children	+ 1. Maud Ridel,   b. of Drayton, Staffordshire, England
  Family ID	F553	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Justice of England. Drowned on the White Ship. "Ridel, Geoffrey (d. 1120), justice, is of uncertain but possibly distinguished origins. There is a single reference in the Domesday survey of Norfolk to a man named Geoffrey Ridel, who is said to have come from Apulia with the brother of Roger (I) Bigod. A family named Ridel was prominent in southern Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and a Geoffrey Ridel who is mentioned between 1061 and 1084 as a lieutenant of Robert Guiscard became duke of Gaeta. That Geoffrey Ridel the justice was well connected is suggested by the fact that his brother Matthew was appointed to the important abbacy of Peterborough in 1102, while Geoffrey himself leased the manor of Pytchley from the abbey, originally, so the abbey claimed, for one year only, though he refused to give up the estate and was still in possession at the time of his death." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

  
  

• Sources

  [S789] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry by Vernon James Watney. Oxford, 1928. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S3215] Medieval Welsh Ancestors of Certain Americans by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2004., year only. [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982., year only.