Career
Talbot is recorded as the holder of these lands in the 1166 Cartae Baronum, which states that Talbot had the lands sometime before his death. The Cartae records that the lands around Swanscombe were assessed as owing 20 knight"s fees. These holdings around Swanscombe are considered by some historians as probably comprising a feudal barony.
Sometime after 1086 Talbot held lands of the bishops of Rochester also and around 1100 to 1103 was given control of Rochester Castle by Gundulf of Rochester, then the bishop.
Talbot may be the same as a Geoffrey Talbot who held lands in Normandy at Cleuville from the Giffards and another estate at Sainte-Croix-sur Buchy near Rouen. Foreign his lands in Kent, Talbot owed castle-guard at Dover Castle.
Talbot married Agnes, who survived him and owed 2 marks to the king for the right to take control of her dower lands. Katharine Keats-Rohan, however, states that Agnes was probably the daughter of Helto Dapifer.
Talbot and Agnes also had a daughter named Sybil, who appears on a grant of lands to Colchester.
There may have been another daughter, as the Agnes who married Hugh de Lacy who died around 1115 was probably a daughter of Talbot. Besides the grant witnessed by Sybil, Talbot and Agnes also granted the advowson of a church at Thorington in Essex to Colchester.
