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From: "Chris Phillips" <>
Subject: Re: A Hugh de Grandmesnil
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:07:27 -0000


I wrote:
> > The Hugh referred to is the Domesday tenant, although I think the date
> > of his death should be 22 February 1098 [as stated by Orderic Vitalis,
> > vol.4, p.338 (Marjorie Chibnall's edition)].

Jay replied:
> How is the Domesday tenant related (if known) to the companion of the
> Conqueror and his son Hugh?

Sorry for not being clear.

The companion of the Conqueror is the same person as the Domesday tenant.
(He is one of the small number whose presence at the Battle of Hastings is
attested by William of Poitiers.)

Looking at A.J.Camp's "My Ancestors came with the Conqueror", I realise that
what I said about the Earls of Leicester and the English Grandmesnil lands
wasn't correct. It was the _Norman_ Grandmesnil lands that Robert, Earl of
Leicester, acquired on his marriage with Pernel. His grandfather Robert had
acquired the English Grandmesnil lands early in the century, after Hugh de
Grandmesnil's son Ivo had mortgaged them to him. (So the intervening Robert
could have granted former Grandmesnil lands to the de Boscos around the
1140s, the same period he granted Biddlesden to Arnold de Bosco.)

Chris Phillips


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