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William de Grandmesnil - was born about 1125.
He is the son of Robert de Grandmesnil.
William -
Chris Phillips posted to GEN-MEDIEVAL@@rootsweb.com on 09 Aug 1999 Subject: Ancestry of Petronella de Grandmesnil (rather long): . "This is by way of a postscript to the discussion a few months ago about the ancestry of Petronella, heiress of the Norman honor of Grandmesnil, and wife of Robert, Earl of Leicester (d.1190). I have finally got round to looking at all the references people were kind enough to suggest (and a few more), and thought I would post the comments below, in the hope they might be useful. . To recap briefly, Petronella has long been known to have been a great granddaughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday tenant 1, and more recently it has been discovered 2 that Petronella's father was called William. Assuming that William was a descendant of Hugh in the male line, the question is: which of Hugh's five sons was the father of William? |
(See ~jast/D0001/G0000152.html William de GRANDMESNIL for the complete description. ) |
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Petronilla de Grandmesnil was born in 1149 and died on 1 Apr 1212 and was buried in Leicester, Leicestershire, England .
Petronilla married Sir Robert de Beaumont before 1155/1159.
Sir Robert was born before 1135 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
He was the son of Earl Robert "Bossu" de Beaumont and Amice de Montfort.
He died on 31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo, Greece .
Petronilla -
Pernel's father was called William, as shown by a charter for St-Evroult discovered by David Crouch The Beaumont Twins, p.91, citing the Cartulary of St-Evroult, ii, fo 33v. However, the argument that her grandfather is likely to have been Robert, the eldest son of Hugh de Grandmesnil, still seems sound. To some extent it is supported by the following evidence. |
In 1157, Henry II confirmed gifts made to the hospital of Falaise by William de Grentmesnil and others Cal. Docs France, no 1157. By an undated charter (perhaps from 1160 or later), one Beatrix de Rye gave land to the abbey of St Jean of Falaise, for the well-being of her mother Emma and of her brother William de Grentemesnil Lechaude d'Anisy, Extrait des Chartes ... dans les archives du Calvados, vol.1, p.232, no 9 (1834). It seems likely that this Beatrix was a daughter of Robert de Grandmesnil by his second wife, Emma d'Estouteville, particularly as the name Beatrix occurs in the Estouteville family, and was possibly borne by Emma's mother C.T. Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters, vol.9, p.2 (1952). If so, this would confirm that Robert also had a son William, who would probably be Pernel's father.
Note that K.S.B. Keats-Rohan Domesday People I, p.263 (1999) states that Pernel's father William was the son of Robert by Emma d'Estouteville, but no evidence is cited for the relationship. |
See de Harcourt family for children.
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