Geoffrey de Mandeville is the name of several important medieval English barons:
- Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century), (d. c. 1100) was one of the great magnates of the reign of William the Conqueror
- Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex (d. 1144), changed sides several times during the reign of King Stephen; son of William de Mandeville and grandson of the Geoffrey de Mandeville above
- Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex (d. 1160) was one of three sons of the 1st Earl
- Geoffrey FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex, opponent of King John of England
Famous quotes containing the words geoffrey and/or mandeville:
“I change, and so do women too;
But I reflect—which women seldom do.
Tobacco is a filthy weed,
That from the devil doth proceed;
That drains your purse, that burns your clothes,
That makes a chimney of your nose.”
—Anonymous. “Written on a Looking Glass,” from Geoffrey Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)
“It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.”
—Bernard De Mandeville (1670–1733)