Grandmesnil

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The Grentemesnil - or in the modern form: Grandmesnil - were a family of the Anglo-Norman nobility, who came from the Calvados department and who moved to the British island after the conquest of England in 1066 when Hugues de Grentemesnil in Leicestershire received a hundred estates as a gift.

Tribe list

  1. Robert de Grentemesnil (Grandmesnil) (X June 18, 1036 ); ∞ Havois de Saint-Céneri , daughter of Giroie , lord of Échauffour and Montreuil-l'Argillé , and Gisele de Montfort-sur-Risle , she married Guillaume d'Évreux from the line of the Counts of Évreux of the Rollonides in their second marriage before 1037
    1. Hugues de Grandmesnil (Grentemesnil) (* around 1025, † 22. February 1098 as a monk) founded in 1050 , the Abbey of Saint-Evroul new (it was formerly Abbaye d'Ouche ), fights in 1066 in the Battle of Hastings , Governor of Winchester , buried in Saint-Evroult; ∞ Adelise (Aelis) de Beaumont-sur-Oise , † July 11, 1091 in Rouen , daughter of Count Ivo III, buried in the Abbey of Saint-Évroult ( House of Beaumont-sur-Oise )
      1. Robert de Grentemesnil (attested in 1088, † June 1, 1136 ) buried in Saint-Évroult; ∞ I Agnes de Bayeux, daughter of Ranulph Vice-Count of Bayeux , buried in Saint-Evroult; ∞ II Emma d'Estouteville, daughter of Robert II, Seigneur d ' Estouteville ( Estouteville house ), widow of Errand Sire d'Harcourt , buried in Saint-Evroult; ∞ III Lucie, daughter of Savari, from the family of the Vice Counts of Beaumont-au-Maine
        1. Hugues, attested in 1177, probably Seneschal of England
          1. Pétronille (Pernel) († April 1, 1212 ); ∞ before 1155/59 de Robert Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester , Steward (Steward) of England and Normandy, † 1190 in Durazzo
        2. Agnes; ∞ Robert de Moulins
      2. Guillaume, 1081 in Apulia , 1081/1130 attested; ∞ probably I Agatha, † October 3rd …; ∞ probably II after 1088 Mabilie de Hauteville , mistress of Crotone , daughter of Robert Guiscard , Duke of Apulia and Calabria
      3. Hugues, attested in 1088, † young, buried in Saint-Evroult
      4. Yves († on the crusade probably after 1102), attested in 1088, owner of half of the estates in Leicestershire, takes the cross in 1096 ; ∞ NN von Gent (de Gand), daughter of Gilbert and Alice de Montfort-sur-Risle , mistress of Montfort-sur-Risle
        1. Yves and 1 or 2 brothers, † drowned November 25, 1120 off Barfleur ( White Ship )
      5. Albéric, attested in 1088, took the cross in 1096
      6. Adeline; ∞ Roher, Lord of Ivry , cupbearer (Pincerna) of the King of England, attested in 1068, † after April 24, 1089, founds the Abbey of Ivry-la-Ballule ( House of Ivry )
      7. Rochesis; ∞ Robert II. De Courcy, attested in 1088/1108 ( House of Courcy )
      8. Mathilda († in Jaffa as a widow); ∞ Hugues, lord of Montpinchon , Seneschal of Normandy , attested in 1082/1102, † in Rouen , buried in Saint-Évroult
      9. Agnes; ∞ attested before 1098 Guillaume de Say , 1113-after 1123
    2. Robert († December 13, 1082 in Sant'Eufemia, Calabria ) 1050 co-founder of Saint-Évroult, prior, then in 1059 abbot of Saint-Evroult, 1061 abbot of S. Maria di Sant'Eufemia
    3. Ernault, attested around 1050, goes to Italy
    4. Adelise; ∞ Onfroy de Tilleul, † probably after 1068/69, son of Amfrid
      1. Arnaud de Tilleul, † probably after 1090/95, as an adolescent already a monk in Saint-Évroult, lived there for almost 50 years
      2. Robert of Rhuddlan , * probably before 1046/48, X in the Battle of Mount Hormaheva, probably 1087, buried in Saint-Évroult
        1. William of Rhuddlan, † drowned November 25, 1120 in the sinking of the White Ship
      3. Roger, monk in Saint-Évroult
    5. 2 daughters

literature

used therein:

  • Auguste Molinier: Obituaires de la province de Sens, vol. 1 . Impr. Nat. Paris 1902.
  • Henri Regnault du Motey: Origines de la Normandie et du duché d'Alençon ... de l'an 850 à l'an 1085 . Picard, Paris 1920.
  • Henri Regnault du Motey: Robert II de Bellême. Le champion de la Normandie . Champion, Paris 1923.
  • V. Bourienne: Les seigneurs de Coulonces . Letellier, Mortain 1935.
  • David C. Douglas: The Domesday Monachorum of Christ Church Canterbury . Royal History Society, London 1944.
  • René Herval: Grandmesnil . In: Revue d'Avranchie , vol. 38 (1958).
  • Ivor J. Sanders: English Baronies. A study of their origin and descent . Clarendon, Oxford 1960.
  • George Edward Cokayne : The Complete Peerage .