Geoffrey de Turville
Geoffrey de Turville or de Tourville (died 1250) was an
cleric in thirteenth-century Ireland, who held office as Bishop of Ossory and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and was noted as an extremely efficient administrator. His career has been described as an excellent example of what a clerk in the royal service in that era might hope to accomplish.[1]
He was a native of Turville in Buckinghamshire, where an earlier Geoffrey de Turville (c.1122-1177) had been Lord of the Manor of Weston Turville.
Bishop of Ossory
He is first heard of in
Papal condemnation for the proposal.[3]
As Bishop of Ossory in 1245, he was granted the right to hold an annual
Treasurer and Chancellor
He also held a number of administrative and judicial posts. He was
Justiciar of Ireland 1245–6.[4]
Elrington Ball praises Geoffrey as a learned and able lawyer. Otway-Ruthvenminting of the Great Seal of Ireland.[6]
He died in London in October 1250, and was buried in the Temple Church.[7]
References
- ^ Beresford, David "De Tourville, Geoffrey" Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography 2004
- ^ a b c Carrigan, William The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory published by Seary Byers and Walker, Dublin 1905 Vol. 1 p.37
- ^ Beresford
- ^ Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 p.46
- ^ Otway-Ruthven, A.J. History of Medieval Ireland Reprinted Barnes and Noble 1993 p.154
- ^ Otway-Ruthven p.154
- ^ Ball p.46
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