There was taken the lord of Pompadour and ^ the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, and there was slain sir Geoffrey of Charny with the king's banner in his hands: also the lord Raynold Cobham slew the earl of Dammartin.

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

Between the late 1960s and the early 1980s many thinkers were influenced by deconstruction, including Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller.

The vanguard, with which Queen Eleanor marched, was commanded by her Aquitainian vassal, Geoffrey de Rancon ; this, being unencumbered by baggage, managed to reach the summit of Cadmos, where de Rancon had been ordered to make camp for the night.

The official scapegoat for the disaster was Geoffrey de Rancon, who had made the decision to continue, and it was suggested that he be hanged ( a suggestion which the King ignored ).

A nunnery, Sopwell Priory, was founded nearby in 1140 by Abbot Geoffrey de Gorham.

* 1882 – Geoffrey de Havilland, English engineer and businessman, founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company ( d. 1965 )

In 1357, the shroud was first publicly displayed by a nobleman known as Geoffrey of Charney, described by some sources as being a member of the family of the grandson of Geoffroi de Charney, who was burned at the stake with De Molay.

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

Kenilworth Castle was founded in the early 1120s by Geoffrey de Clinton, Lord Chamberlain to Henry I.

Geoffrey and his uncle William de Clinton were forced to come to terms with Beaumont ; this set-back, and the difficult years of the Anarchy ( 1135 – 54 ), delayed any further development of the castle.

The conflict spread across England and Kenilworth was garrisoned by Henry II's forces ; Geoffrey II de Clinton died in this period and the castle was taken fully into royal possession, a sign of its military importance.

( 1982 ) " Geoffrey de Clinton and Roger, earl of Warwick: new men and magnates in the reign of Henry I ," in Historical Research, 60 ( 1982 ).

* Geoffrey de Goreham or Gorron, became Abbot of St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, in 1119

Geoffrey de Rancon's Château de Taillebourg, the castle Richard retreated to after Henry II's forces captured 60 knight s and 400 archers who fought for Richard when Saintes was captured.

The Round Table first appears in Wace's Roman de Brut, a Norman language adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae finished in 1155.

* Geoffrey the Baker's: Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke, ed.

In late 1143, Stephen faced a new threat in the east, when Geoffrey de Mandeville, the Earl of Essex, rose up in rebellion against the king in East Anglia.

Geoffrey de Mandeville's rebellion continued until September 1144, when he died during an attack on Burwell.

In the north, Stephen came to a fresh agreement with Ranulf of Chester, but then in 1146 repeated the ruse he had played on Geoffrey de Mandeville in 1143, first inviting Ranulf to court, before arresting him and threatening to execute him unless he handed over a number of castles, including Lincoln and Coventry.

* Croix, Geoffrey de Ste.

* Geoffrey de Turville ( 1237 ).

BBC Two showed an episode on 8 November 2008 as part of its tribute night to producer Geoffrey Perkins, who had died just over two months before.

The funerary enamel of Geoffrey ( died 1151 ), dressed in blue and gold and bearing his blue shield emblazoned with gold lions, is the first recorded depiction of a coat of arms.

File: Geoffrey of Anjou Monument. jpg | The tomb of Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou ( died 1151 ) is the first recorded example of hereditary armory in Europe.

John's elder brothers William, Henry and Geoffrey died young ; by the time Richard I became king in 1189, John was a potential heir to the throne.

His elder brother Geoffrey died during a tournament in 1186, leaving a posthumous son, Arthur, and an elder daughter, Eleanor.

John of Arsuf had died in 1258 died and was replaced as bailli by Geoffrey of Sergines, Louis IX's lieutenant in Acre.

Clinton had begun to lose the king's favour after 1130, and when he died in 1133 his son, also called Geoffrey, was only a minor.

From the 12th century Abbot Hugh of Semur ( died 1109 ), Peter Abelard ( died 1142 ), and Geoffrey of Vendome ( died 1132 ) all referred to Mary Magdalene as the sinner who merited the title apostolarum apostola, with the title becoming commonplace during the 12th and 13th centuries.

It is not known when Procopius himself died, and many historians ( James Howard-Johnson, Averil Cameron, Geoffrey Greatrex ) date his death to 554, but in 562 there was an urban prefect of Constantinople who happened to be called Procopius.

A connection of the medieval feis of Samhain with pre-Christian traditions was drawn by the " notoriously unreliable " Geoffrey Keating ( died 1644 ), who claimed that the druids of Ireland would assemble on the night of Samhain to kindle a sacred fire.

Matilda had been married to Henry V, the Holy Roman Emperor, which gave her the title of Empress, but her husband died in 1125 and she was remarried in 1128 to Geoffrey, the Count of Anjou, whose lands bordered the Duchy of Normandy.

** Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 1996 )

Geoffrey died immediately ; Katharine survived, but was horribly injured.

When her father died in Normandy, on 1 December 1135, Matilda was with Geoffrey in Anjou, and, crucially, too far away from events rapidly unfolding in England and Normandy.

His half-brother Geoffrey ( died 1212 ), who was born a year before William, did later hold that office, causing the confusion.

Geoffrey died suddenly on 7 September 1151.

# Geoffrey, Count of Nantes ( 1 June 1134 Rouen-26 July 1158 Nantes ) died unmarried and was buried in Nantes

Once attributed to Saint Tysilio ( died 640 ), this Chronicle of the Kings of Britain was written c. 1500 as an amalagam of earlier versions of the Brut y Brenhinedd, a derivative of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.

Matilda had been married to Henry V, the Holy Roman Emperor, from which she later claimed the title of Empress, but her husband died in 1125 and she was remarried in 1128 to Geoffrey, the Count of Anjou, whose lands bordered the Duchy of Normandy.