Ancestry of
Button Gwinnett

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Geoffrey FitzPiers

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• • 19th Great-grandfather of Button Gwinnett — 22nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2340178 
  • Father:
  • Piers de Lutegareshale 
  • Mother:
  • Maud de Mandeville   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1162 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Oct 1213 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Beatrix de Say
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 25 Jan 1184/1185 
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  William de Mandeville

  Maud de Mandeville (Ahnentafel No:1170089 )

  • Notes: 

  • 1st Earl of Essex

    Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers's surname is also seen as FitzPeter

• Additional marriages for Geoffrey FitzPiers

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  • Spouse:
  • Aveline de Clare
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 29 May 1205

• Sources for Geoffrey FitzPiers

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1981, Vol. 57, p. 32.
  • ² Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 159.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 80.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 548, 551.
  • ⁵ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 100.
  • ⁶ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 225-226.
  • ⁷ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 25, 189.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex", _1st_Earl_of_Essex, (accessed 09/06/2013).
  • ⁹ Wilkinson, M. M., Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families, Shelby, Mississippi: Shelby Book Store, Publishers (1949), 62.