1. Geoffrey¹ Fitz-Piers was born before 25 January 1184, the first event for which there is a recorded date. Geoffrey died 14 October 1213.

He married Beatrix de Saye before 25 January 1184. Beatrix was the daughter of William de Saye. Beatrix died 29 April 1197. One of Geoffrey's first acts as a feudal lord was to dispossess the monks of Walden of certain lands which they had derived from his predecessor, and after a long controversy which was referred to the Pope and the King, was finally compromised. Upon the removal of Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, from the office of Justice of England by Richard I, Geoffrey was appointed to succeed him; and at the coronation of King John on June 26, 1199, he was girt with the sword as Earl of Essex and then served at the king's table. Being nominated patron of the monastery of Walden, he appears soon after to have been received with great ceremony by the monks, and perfectly reconciled to those holy fathers. He had a grant of the castle and honor of Berkhamstead.

Geoffrey Fitz-Piers and Beatrix de Saye had the following family:

2 i. Maud² Fitz-Piers was born before 1208, the first event for which there is a recorded date. Maud died 27 August 1236. She married Henry de Bohun. Henry was born before 1177. Henry was the son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntingdon. Henry died 1 June 1220 at 43 years of age. (See Henry de Bohun for the continuation of this line.)

3 ii. Geoffrey Fitz-Piers was born on (birth date unknown).

4 iii. William Fitz-Piers was born on (birth date unknown).

5 iv. Henry Fitz-Piers was born on (birth date unknown).

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