Note 1059 — Chapter VI · JOHN AND THE BARONS 1214–1215
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W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 225, sums up the earl’s position and character very suggestively: “In parte adversa erat Gaufridus de Maundevilla comes Essexae, quem rex cingulo militari donaverat, quique regi in XIX millibus marcarum obligatus erat pro comitissa Gloucestriae quondam uxore sua, quam iste nuper acceperat.” See above, p. 196. Geoffrey’s first wife had been a daughter of Robert Fitz-Walter; see Note I at end.