Agnes, wife of Geoffrey de Clinton

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Clive West

Agnes, wife of Geoffrey de Clinton

Legg inn av Clive West » 24 okt 2005 10:37:01

According to Dugdale, Geoffrey de Clinton junior was the main benefactor of the Nunnery of Bretford in Warwicks. In the relevant chapter of the Monasticon (Vol 4) there are two charters by Geoffrey junior, which begin : "In nomine sanctae Trinitatis, ego Gaufridus camerarius de Clintona etc" This seems quite clear. Both charters are witnessed by "Agnete uxore mea" and "filio meo Henrico", which confirms that the author is the right Geoffrey.
Sometime ago while researching my de Arden ancestors, I made a note of the document in the Beauchamp Cartulary witnessed by Siward de Arden (son of Thorkell) which states without any possiblity of ambiguity that Roger, Earl of Warwick granted his daughter Agnes in marriage to chamberlain Geoffrey de Clinton.

Turning to Geoffrey de Clinton the elder, it appears that around 1130 Siward de Arden granted the manor of Wolfhampcote to Geoffrey's daughter Leceline (or Leoscelina) together with "10 marks of silver, 5 marks of which was the dower of my wife" .Does anyone know whether there were any family ties between the Ardens and the Clintons?

Clive West

Chris Phillips

Re: Agnes, wife of Geoffrey de Clinton

Legg inn av Chris Phillips » 24 okt 2005 12:31:31

Clive West wrote:
According to Dugdale, Geoffrey de Clinton junior was the main benefactor
of the Nunnery of Bretford in Warwicks. In the relevant chapter of the

Monasticon (Vol 4) there are two charters by Geoffrey junior, which begin :
"In nomine sanctae Trinitatis, ego Gaufridus camerarius de Clintona etc"
This seems quite clear. Both charters are witnessed by "Agnete uxore mea"
and "filio meo Henrico", which confirms that the author is the right
Geoffrey.


Thank you for posting this evidence, which does seem clear, and which
appears to confirm "camerario" as the right reading in the marriage charter.

The puzzlement in the previous discussion arose because no one here knew of
Geoffrey de Clinton junior acting as a royal chamberlain.

The charters to Bretfort don't suggest any obvious dates, but a subsequent
charter of Geoffrey, also printed in the Monasticon, is witnessed by
Richard, abbot of Leicester (1143 or 1144-1167-8). If Agnes was the daughter
of Countess Gundred, she could have been only a small child in 1138, the
date suggested by Crouch for the marriage charter. On this reckoning, the
appearance of Geoffrey's son Henry as a witness would push the Bretford
charters probably into the 1160s, even if Henry was a precocious witness.

So these three charters probably have Geoffrey described as "camerarius" in
the reigns of both Stephen and Henry II.

Is it possible that the word is being used in the charters as a kind of
surname, rather than to imply he actually held the office?

Chris Phillips

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