Michael Matthew Groat PhD's Genealogical Database
Individuals: 97,713 Families: 61,838
Gedcom Last Modified: December 14, 2025 00:59:10
Galfrid de Ridel Count of Blaye
- Preferred Name: Galfrid de Ridel Count of Blaye[1] [2]
- Gender: M
- Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Geoffrey-Ridel-2d-Lord-of-Witheringe/6000000004957617489?through=5253687959440118835
- Cause+of+Death: in Drowned In The The White Ship Disaster
- Death: 25 NOV 1120 in Barfleur, Manche, Normandy, France at LATI: N9.6726 LONG: E1.2603 with note: Barfleur, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France
- Title+Of+Nobility: with note: Description: Count of Blaye and Justicar of England)
- Birth: ABT 1075 in Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.35 LONG: E0.85 with note: Stamford
- FSID: GSY8-K6Y
- Notes:
Sir Geoffrey Ridel 1075 - 1120
Birth in Southern Italy
Ridel may have been born in southern Italy or Sicily, as a Ridel family was well known there in the 11th and 12th centuries. Another Geoffrey Ridel (active between 1061 and 108
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3P-S.htm#MatildaRidelMRichardBasset as of 4/5/2016
GEOFFREY Ridel (-drowned off Barfleur, Normandy 25 Nov 1120). Domesday Book recor
Preferred Parents:
Father: Geoffrey de Ridel, b. ABT 1044 in Blaye, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d. 29 JUL 1089 in Wittering, Stamford, Northamptonshire, England
Mother: Helena de Bigot, b. ABT 1053 in Saint-Sauveur-Le-Vicomte, Basse-Normandie, France d. ABT 1085 in Blaye, Gironde, Aquitaine, France
Family 1: Geva d'Avranches, b. ABT 1076 in Cheshire, England d. 1145 in Northamptonshire, England
- m. 1096 in Preston, Northumberland, England
- Matilda de Ridel, b. ABT 1105 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England d. ABT 1139 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England
Sources:
- Title: The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the Norman Lineages, Volume 3 edited by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland
Author: page 57, gives ancient history of the Ridel Family etc...
Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=FF8JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false;
- Title: Geoffrey De Ridel, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-KD1W : 25 May 2022), Geoffrey De Ridel, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 86921457, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-KD1W;
Master Index
| Pedigree Chart
| Descendency Chart
Please send genealogical corrections, additions, or comments to Michael Matthew Groat PhD
Created by GIMMWebService Version 1.0.3 (Program Information), Copyright 2023 © Michael Groat
(Web design layout and pedigree indentation subroutine) Copyright 1996 © Randy Winch (gumby@edge.net) and Tim Doyle (tdoyle@doit.com)
(Internal GEDCOM data structures and GEDCOM file parsing) Copyright 2014-2021 © Giulio Genovese (giulio.genovese@gmail.com)
Like the program that you see? Any support is appreciated!
