Geoffrey Dormer1,2

M, d. 1503
     Geoffrey was born in Thame, Oxfordshire, England.3 Geoffrey married Ursula Coleridge, daughter of Bartholomew Coleridge and Alice Fitsalan De Arundel, in England. Geoffrey departed this life in 1503 in Thame, Oxfordshire, England, at Baldington Manor. In 1473, Geoffrey bought Baldington Manor for £ 313 13s. 4d. He was a merchant of the Calias Staple.

Family

Ursula Coleridge
Child

Citations

  1. [S1853] Walter Metcalfe, The Visitation of Buckinghamshire in 1566., page 11 - Geoffrey Dormer m. Margery [heir of Coleridge of Twyforde, Buckinghamshire] children: William & Thomas. Geoffrey m. 2nd Alyc Launcelyn; Children: Geffrey, Mycheall, Peter, Mychaell & Parnell.
  2. [S936] British History Online - Victoria County History: Thame - She was already the widow of John Wakehurst and in 1473 she and her second husband, Henry Tracy of Toddington (Gloucs.), (fn. 223) sold the manor to Geoffrey Dormer for £313 13s. 4d.; he was, however, to pay them a yearly rent of £9 14s. less 3s. 4d. for the steward who held the courts. (fn. 224)

    Dormer, a merchant of the Calais Staple, was an important man in Thame. (fn. 225) He died in 1503, but in 1498 he had settled Baldington on his son Geoffrey, (fn. 226) who also lived in Thame and was probably the Master Dormer who was buried there in 1537. (fn. 227) The younger Geoffrey left no children, so his heir was his younger brother Sir Michael Dormer, a London mercer and in 1541 Lord Mayor of London. (fn. 228) The latter bought up much property in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Some of his manors he left to his elder sons, (fn. 229) but Baldington, Attington, and Dorton (Bucks.) he settled on a younger son William and his wife Elizabeth. (fn. 230) William Dormer, Old Thame's richest inhabitant, (fn. 231) used Attington and Dorton to obtain ready money, (fn. 232) and in 1560, in return for £450, he granted Thomas Sackville (later Earl of Dorset) a yearly annuity of £53 6s. 8d. out of Baldington. (fn. 233) Before his death in 1563 he settled the manor for life on his wife Elizabeth and then on his son John. (fn. 234)


    Dormer's widow married as her second husband Hugh Hollinshead of Thame and in 1566 they were able to reclaim from Sackville all his rights in Baldington. (fn. 235) She was probably dead by 1584 when her son John, who lived at Dorton and was to become a prominent Buckinghamshire knight, was in possession of Baldington. (fn. 236) In 1586 he settled the manor on his wife Jane, the daughter of John Giffard of Chillington (Staffs.) - www.british-history.ac.uk.
  3. [S936] British History Online - Victoria County History: Thame - Thame is on the border of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. - www.british-history.ac.uk.