Earl FITZ GEOFFREY

   Other names for FITZ GEOFFREY were FITZ GEOFFREY and FITZ GEOFFREY Earl.

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Earl FITZ GEOFFREY.

BOOKS
Political History of England 1216-1377, Vol III, T F Tout, AMS Press, 1905, p100: "...One June 11 [1258] the magnates once more assembled, this time at Oxford. A petition of twenty-nine articles was presented, in which the abuses of the [Henry III] administration were laid bare in detail. A commission of twenty-four was appointed who were to redress the grievances of the nation, and to draw up a new scheme of government. According to the compact Henry himself selected half this body...
"...In strong contrast to these creatures of court favour were the twelve nominees of the barons. The only ecclesiastic was Walter of Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester, and the only alien was Earl Simon of Leicester. With him were three other earls Richard of Clare, Earl of Gloucester, Roger Bigod, earl marshal and Earl ofNorfolk, and Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford. Those of Baronal rank were Roger Mortimer, the stronest of the marchers, Hugh Bigod, the brother of the earl marshal, John FitzGeoffrey, Richard Grey, William Bardolf, Peter Montfort, and Hugh Despenser.
"...The twenty-four drew up a plan of reform which left little to be desired in thoroughness. The Provisions of Oxford, as the new constitution was styled, were speedily laid before the barons and adopted...For the first time in ourhistory the king was forced to stand aside from the discharge of his undoubted functions, and suffer them to be exercised by a committee of magnates. The conception of limited monarchy, which had been foreshadowed in the early struggles of Henry's long reign, was triumphantly vindicated, and, after weary years of waiting, the baronial victors demanded more than had ever been suggested by the most free interpretation of the Great Charter..."

The New Columbia Encyclopedia, 1975, p323, Bohun Humphrey V De 2nd Earl of Hereford 1st Earl of Essex: "Died 1275, English nobleman, son of Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford. A member of the household of Henry III, he inherited the Earldom of Essex from a maternal uncle..."