biography
| name: |
Mandeville, Geoffrey de, 1st Earl of Essex
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pronunciation:
[mandevil]
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| male
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| lived:
| (?–1144)
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| biography:
| English baron. A cruel man, he succeeded his father as constable of the Tower c.1130, and proved a traitor alternately to King Stephen and Empress Matilda. He took finally to plundering in the Cambridgeshire fens, was besieged by Stephen, and killed. |
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