Geoffrey de Bocland
Geoffrey de Bocland (fl. 1195-1224), was an English justice, both a lawyer and a churchman.
Life
He was a
King John's reign he was connected with the exchequer, and as late as 1220 he was a justice itinerant in the county of Hereford
.
His ecclesiastical career begins in 1200, when he was
St. Martin's-le-Grand, preferment which he obtained from the crown. He was concerned in the First Barons' War in 1216, and twice in the year time and a safe-conduct were given him to appear before the king. In this year also his manor of Tacheworth in Herefordshire
was forfeited and granted to Nicholas de Jelland.
On
Eustace de Fauconbergh, Bishop of London
, who granted it to the canons of St. Martin's, ordaining a perpetual vicarage there; and the grant was confirmed in 1222 under the seals of the bishop, dean, and chapter of St. Paul's, and dean and canons of St. Martin's. But by February 1231 he was dead, and had been succeeded by Walter de Maitland as dean of St. Martin's. Maitland was appointed 14 September 1225.
An elder brother of his, William de Bocland, married a daughter of
Berkhampstead
.
About the middle of the fourteenth century Maud, widow of William de Bocland, confirmed to the
archdeaconry of Colchester
.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Bocland, Geoffrey de". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.