Geoffrey de Turville

Geoffrey de Turville or de Tourville (died 1250) was an English-born judge and cleric in thirteenth-century Ireland, who held office as Bishop of Ossory and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and was noted as an extremely efficient administrator.

His career has been described as an excellent example of what a clerk in the royal service in that era might hope to accomplish.

He is first heard of in Ireland in 1218, in the entourage of Henry de Loundres, Archbishop of Dublin.

He held the benefice of Dungarvan from 1224, and was appointed Archdeacon of Dublin in 1227, before becoming Bishop of Ossory in 1244.

[2] He was granted the supply of a conduit of water by the monks of the Black Abbey, Kilkenny.