On Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 7:29:08 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > Crouch in Beaumont Twins 91n calls her a daughter of William, citing “a > charter of hers to St Evroult commemorates him by name, Ctl St-Evroult, ii > fol 33v” (in Bibliothèque Nationale). Crouch mentions a suggestion in CP > 7:533n that she was the daughter of Hugh, but his conclusion was that her > charter overruled that suggestion. > > CP 7:533n cites “the foundation narrative of Leicester Abbey,” which appears > to me to be secondary to Pernel’s own charter naming her father as William. While charters can be forged, mistranscribed/translated or contain scribal errors, unless you have reason to think one of these is the case, then you have to give priority to the contemporary record over anything written later. taf