Geoffrey de Mandeville is the name of several important medieval English barons:
- Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century), (d. c. 1100) was one of the great magnates of the reign of William the Conqueror
- Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex (d. 1144), changed sides several times during the reign of King Stephen; son of William de Mandeville and grandson of the Geoffrey de Mandeville above
- Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex (d. 1160) was one of three sons of the 1st Earl
- Geoffrey FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex, opponent of King John of England
Famous quotes containing the words geoffrey and/or mandeville:
“If anybody comes to I,
I physics, bleeds, and sweats’em;
If, after that, they like to die,
Why, what care I, I lets ‘em.”
—Anonymous. “On Dr. Lettsom,” from Geoffrey Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs (1977)
“We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)