Piers de Lutegareshale

• Name	Piers de Lutegareshale
  Gender	Male
  Notes	Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Fitz_Peter,_1st_Earl_of_Essex Piers de Lutegareshale, was the forester of Ludgershall. This area is northeast of Salisbury, in Wiltshire, England. His job would have been to prevent poaching in the forest by the peasants in the land around Ludgershall Castle. The castle was probably first built in the late 11th century by Edward of Salisbury, Sheriff of Wiltshire. By about 1100 it had come into the possession of the Crown, and John the Marshal (died 1165) is recorded as the king's castellan. Piers may have been present when in 1141 the Empress Maud took refuge in Ludgershall Castle as she fled from King Stephen's army. Piers was a modest landowning family that had a tradition of service in mid-ranking posts under Henry II. His son Simon Fitz Peter was at various times High Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, and Bedfordshire. His other son, Geoffrey, too, got his start in this way, as High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for the last five years of Henry II's reign. Geoffrey married Beatrice de Say, an heiress and the sister of Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex. This connection with the Mandeville family was to prove important as Geoffrey eventually become the Earl of Essex.
  Person ID	I36257	Master File
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2016

  
  

  Children	1. Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex,   b. ca 1162, Essex, England ,   d. 14 Oct 1213, Essex, England  (Age ~ 51 years)
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2016
  Family ID	F14963	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart