On 7/05/2017 12:29 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Greetings, > > Is there a consensus as to the parentage of Pernel de Grandmesnil, wife of Robert, Earl of Leicester? Seems to me this is somewhat important given her descent from Hugh, both a Domesday holder and Companion to the Conqueror. Or perhaps not. But here's what I've found: > > Richardson, in MCS (2005) 683 has her as the daughter of William, appearing to cite Crouch Beaumont Twins (1986) 91 and Keats-Rohan DP (1999) 263. In RA (2013) 3:559 he has her as the daughter of Hugh, appearing to cite Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum. > > 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. You can see the Saint-Evroul cartulary copy of her charter here: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9066843b/f36.image fol 33v no. 33 (expanding abbreviations): "Petronilla Comitissa Legrecestrie ... pro salute anime mee necnon et Willelmi patris mei" Peter Stewart