died 20 January 1265 in Florence and was buried in York Minster. Among his contemporaries were the better known Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and Roger Bacon. Family and issue Burke held that Maunsell married Joan, daughter of Simon de Beauchamp of Bedford, and had the following issue: Thomas Maunsell William Maunsell Henry Maunsell However, Maunsell was in major orders, making marriage unlikely. Furthermore, he left property not to these supposed male heirs, but to his sister and niece, the rest of his estate reverting to the Crown. Notes References Bibliography Books Calendar Patent Rolls, Henry III Papal Letters Vol i., pp. 218, 262–3, 269, 362. (Pope Innocent IV & Pope Alexander IV) Foedera, Rymer, Vol i., pp. 48, 67, 135, 408, 415. History of the Exchequer, Thomas Madox; Vol. ii. p. 51 Henry II and the Church, F. A. Gasquet; p. 196 et seq. England Under the Normans and Angevins, H. W. C. Davis Chronica Majora, Matthew Paris; Vol i. pp. 440,422. Chronica Majora, Matthew Paris; Vol iii. p. 153. Chronica Majora, Matthew Paris; Vol iv. pp. 294, 375, 601, 623–4. Chronica Majora, Matthew Paris; Vol v. pp. 101, 129, 179, 223, 238–9, 268–9, 355, 450, 505, 507, 690, 719. Royal and Other Historical Letters, Shirley, Vol i., pp. 145–6. Royal and Other Historical Letters, Shirley, Vol ii., pp. 175, 206. Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, Vol i., pp. 60, 64, 66 External links Electronic articles and journals http://www.sacred-texts.com/sro/hkt/hkt05.htm The History of the Knights Templars https://web.archive.org/web/20050222094527/http://home.earthlink.net/~plantagenet60/plantagenet06.htm http://www.biodatabase.de/Secretary%20of%20State http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050222094527/http://home.earthlink.net/~plantagenet60/plantagenet06.htm British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ Houses of the Austin Canons http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=38204 1190s births 1265 deaths 13th-century English people Anglo-Normans Medieval English knights Lord chancellors of England Seneschals of Gascony Secretaries of State of the Kingdom of England