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From: chris phillips < >
Subject: Petronilla de Grandmesnil
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:52:32 +0100
Jim Stevens wrote:
> 8.Revised the descent of Petronilla de Grandmesnil (RIN 860) from her
>great grandfather, Hugh de
>Grandmesnil, to reflect the latest scholarship on this still debated point.
I should be grateful for any references to the latest scholarship on
Petronilla's parentage.
Crouch, 'The Beaumont Twins' (p.91), cites a charter of Petronilla's to
St-Evroult, which commemorates her father by name as William [citing Ctl
St-Evroult, ii, fo 33v], disproving the tentative suggestion in the
complete Peerage that he might have been called Hugh. Crouch says that
there seems to be no other record of this William. I'd be interested to see
the evidence (or the argument) in favour of his being a son of the William
who went to Apulia, rather than a son of Robert, Hugh de Grandmesnil's
eldest son, as suggested by Complete Peerage.
Many thanks
Chris Phillips
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