Geoffrey Plantagenet, Archbishop of York

Also known as: Geffrey archbishop of Yorke / Geffrey the archbishop of York / archbishop Geffrey · Family: England · Role: archbishop · First appears: King John 4

Life events

• c. 1200 · King John deprived Geoffrey Plantagenet of his possessions for resisting royal demands.(King John 4 · 📍 Yorkeshire)
  • With: King John
  • “Moreouer, about this time, Geffrey archbishop of Yorke was depriued of all his manours, lands, and possessions, by the kings commandement, directed to the shiriffe of Yorkeshire for diuerse causes, for that he would not permit the same shiriffe to leuie the dutie called Charugage”
• c. 1206 · Geoffrey Plantagenet secretly left England and cursed those collecting King John’s levy.(King John 12 · 📍 Yorke)
  • With: King John
  • “except onelie Geffrey the archbishop of Yorke, who therevpon departing secretlie out of the realme, accursed all those that laid any hands to the collection of that paiment, within his archbishoprike of Yorke.”

King John 4

• sworn: King John “Geffrey archbishop of Yorke was depriued of all his manours, lands, and possessions, by the kings commandement”

King John 12

• with King John (interaction) “none being so hardie as to gainesaie the kings pleasure, except onelie Geffrey the archbishop of Yorke, who therevpon departing secretlie out of the realme, accursed all those that laid any hands to the collection of that paiment”
• enemies with King John “all men murmuring at such dooings, but none being so hardie as to gainesaie the kings pleasure, except onelie Geffrey the archbishop of Yorke, who therevpon departing secretlie out of the realme, accursed all those that laid any hands to the collection of that paiment, within his archbishoprike of Yorke.”

King John 22

• rivals with Nicholas, Cardinal of Tusculum “There was some grudge betwixt the legat and the archbishop, for that where the pope had written to the legat, how he should (according to the order of the ancient canons of the church) place in euerie bishops sée and abbeie (that was void) méet and able persons to rule and guide the same, the legat presuming on that authoritie granted him by the pope, without the aduise of the archbishop or other bishops, tooke onelie with him certeine of the kings chapleins, and comming with them to such churches as were vacant, ordeined in them such persons as were nothing méet to take such charge vpon them”
• with Walter Gray (Walter Gray succeeded to the vacant see after Geoffrey's death.) “Walter Gray bishop of Worcester was remooued to the gouernement of the sée of Yorke, which had béene vacant euer since the death of the archbishop Geffrey.”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.