De Mandeville is the

surname In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...

of an old

Norman Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 9th and 10th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norma ...

. The first recorded use of this surname comes from Geoffrey de Mandeville, Constable of the Tower of London.Keats-Rohan, pp. 226–227. The de Mandeville family held lands in England and France.

England

Geoffrey de Mandeville was a companion of

William the Conqueror William the Conqueror (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was D ...

in 1066. Geoffrey obtained lands in Wiltshire, Essex and others and was appointed the

Constable of the Tower of London The Constable of the Tower is the most senior appointment at the Tower of London. In the Middle Ages a constable was the person in charge of a castle when the owner—the king or a nobleman—was not in residence. The Constable of the Tower had a ...

. The sons of

Geoffrey Fitz Peter Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex (c. 1162–1213) was a prominent member of the government of England during the reigns of Richard I and John. The patronymic is sometimes rendered Fitz Piers, for he was the son of Piers de Lutegareshale (born ...

and Beatrice de Say adopted the surname of de Mandeville in the right of their mother as co-heiress of her grandfather

Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex Geoffrey de Mandeville II, 1st Earl of Essex (died September 1144) was a prominent figure during the reign of King Stephen of England. His biographer, the 19th-century historian J. H. Round, called him "the most perfect and typical presentment o ...

, after that line ended.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mandeville, de Medieval English families Anglo-Norman families De Mandeville family