Pernel de Grandmesnil

• Preferred Name: Pernel de Grandmesnil^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Birth: 1123 in Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.7139 LONG: E1.1015
  
• FSID: 9WWL-HYB
  
• Burial: in Leicester Abbey, Leicester, England at LATI: N2.6529 LONG: E1.1451
  
• Death: 1 APR 1212 in Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.7139 LONG: E1.1015
  
• MilitaryService: fought (and captured) alongside her husband in the Revolt of 1173–74 against Henry II17 OCT 1173 in Fornham, Suffolk, England at LATI: N2.2727 LONG: E0.7069
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Countess of Leicester
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Wikipedia Petronilla de Grandmesnil, Countess of Leicester:
  
  "Petronilla, the daughter of a William de Grandmesnil, claimed to be the heiress of the Grandmesnil barony but her father's relationship to the family heads is uncertain. She married in the mid-1150s and bore at least seven children:
  
  William (d. before 1190)
  Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, FitzParnel/FitzPetronilla" (d. 1204) married Loretta de Braose
  Roger, Bishop of St. Andrews (d. 1202)
  Amice married (1) Simon de Montfort (d. 1188); parents of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester
  (2) William de Barres (d. 3 Sept. 1215)
  Margaret married Saer de Quincy, later 1st Earl of Winchester
  Hawise, who became a nun at Nuneaton Priory
  Pernel/Petronilla
  Two additional children are possible: Geoffrey and Mabel"
  
  Petronilla de Grandmesnil - Find-a-grave
  Petronilla de Grandmesnil, countess of Leicester was the daughter of one of three Grandmesnil brothers, William, Ivo, or Hugh, and wife of Robert de Beaumont III, earl of Leicester, known as "Blanchma
  
  === Sources: Kraentzler 1117, 1123; Norr; A. ===
  Sources: Kraentzler 1117, 1123; Norr; A. Roots 53; Ayers, p432. K: Pernel de Grandmesnil. Born about 1134. Roots: Petronilla (or Pernell) de Grandmesnil, daughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil and great-granddaugther of of Hugh de Grandmesnil, who was with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Ayers: Pernell or Petronilla de Grentmesnil. Married 1168. Living1179.
  
  === M L Call: The Royal Ancestry Bible Vol ===
  M L Call: The Royal Ancestry Bible Vol 2 Chart 1618
  
  === !SOURCE: PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPERO ===
  !SOURCE: PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPEROR CHRLEMAGNES DESCENDANTS Vol III,compiled by J.Orton Buck & Timothy Field Beard Baltimore 1988; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
  
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  REF: Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists 53-26.
  
  === Medieval Lands Biography ===
  Petronilla de Grandmesnil, Countess of Leicester (c. 1145 - 1212) was the wife of Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, known as "Blanchmains" (d. 1190). After a long widowhood, she was buried in Leicester Abbey after her death on 1 April 1212.
  The chronicler Jordan Fantosme wrote that Earl Robert and his wife Petronilla were participants in the 1173-1174 rebellion of Henry "the Young King" against King Henry II, his father. Jordan claimed that Earl Robert participated because of grievances against King Henry and credits dismissive remarks about the English who were fighting on the king's side to the countess: "The English are great boasters, but poor fighters; they are better at quaffing great tankards and guzzling." Countess Petronilla accompanied her husband on his military campaign against English troops under the command of the earl of Arundel and Humphrey III de Bohun. During the final showdown, she is said to have fled from the battle, only to be found in a ditch. "The earl’s wife wanted to drown herself, when Simon of Odell saw to pulling her out: ‛My lady, come away from this place, and abandon your design! War is all a question of losing and winning." She was noted as wearing male armour when captured. She was wearing a mail hauberk with a sword and a shield. Earl Robert was also captured and his holdings were confiscated. Countess Petronilla was released and during the earl's continued imprisonment he wrote to her asking that she discharge the bequests stated in his father's will.
  
  Family
  Petronilla claimed to be the heiress of the Grandmesnil barony, the daughter of a William de Grandmesnil, whose relationship to the family heads is uncertain. She married in the mid-1150s and bore at least seven children:
  1. William (d. before 1190)
  2. Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, "FitzParnel/FitzPetronilla" (d. 1204) married Loretta de Braose
  3. Roger, Bishop of St. Andrews (d. 1202)
  4. Amice married
  - (1) Simon de Montfort (d. 1188); parents of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester
  - (2) William de Barres (d. 3 Sept. 1215)
  5. Margaret married Saer de Quincy, later 1st Earl of Winchester
  6. Hawise, who became a nun at Nuneaton Priory
  7. Pernel/Petronilla
  Two additional children are possible:
  8. Geoffrey and
  9. Mabel
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronilla_de_Grandmesnil,_Countess_of_Leicester
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  PERNEL [Petronille] (-1 Apr 1212). Pernel is named as great-granddaughter of Hugues de Grantmesnil in the [1190/1204] charter of her son Robert FitzPernel to the abbey of St Evroul[417]. She names her father “Guillaume” in one of her charters for Notre-Dame-du-Bois de Saint-Evroult[418]. Her father is named Hugues de Grantmesnil (supposed son of Robert de Grantmesnil) in an account of the foundation of Leicester Abbey, although the Complete Peerage casts doubt on the accuracy of this document as the same source gives details of properties she inherited from her supposed father which are incompatible with this parentage[419]. Robert de Torigny records that Pernel’s husband gained the Norman honour of Grantmesnil through his marriage[420]. "Robertus filius comitis Legrece" donated property to Notre-Dame de la Trappe for the soul of "uxoris mee Petronille" by charter dated [1153/67][421]. “Robertus comes Legrec” confirmed property in Garendon and “in nemoribus meis de Sepehevid et de Disselai” to Garendon abbey by charter dated 1169, witnessed by “Petronilla comitissa, Willo filio meo...”[422]. "Petronilla comitissa Leircestrie" confirmed the exchange of land with Nuneaton priory made by "Robertus comes Leircestrie filius meus", who gave land in Belgrave in return for land in Dadlington which had been donated by "sponsus meus Robertus comes…cum filia mea pie memorie Hawis", by charter dated to after 1189[423]. The Testa de Nevill lists knights who held land from the king in Hertfordshire, dated to [1204/12]: "comitissa de Leicestria" held "Wares"[424]. The necrology of Lyre monastery records the death "1 Apr" of "Petronilla comitissa Leicestriæ"[425]. The necrology of the monastery of Ouche records the death "1 Apr" of "Petronilla comitissa Leycestriæ"[426]. The necrology of Garendon abbey (Leicestershire) records the death “Kal Apr” of “Petronilla de Grantamenile uxor ipsius Roberti secundi”[427]. m (before [1155/59]) ROBERT de Beaumont "ès Blanchemains", son of ROBERT de Beaumont Earl of Leicester & his wife Amicie de Gaël (-Durazzo 1190). He succeeded his father in 1168 as Earl of Leicester.
  
  [Source: Medieval Lands, "PERNEL [Petronille] (-1 Apr 1212)", retrieved 16 November 2018, dvmansur; see link in Sources.]
  
  === Royal Ancestry Biography ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  "ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., nicknamed “ès Blanchemains,” 2nd Earl of Leicester, Steward of England and Normandy, seigneur of Bréteuil and Paci in Normandy, son and heir, born before 1135 (adult by 1153). He married before 1155/59 PERNEL DE GRANDMESNIL, daughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, of Hinckley, Leicestershire. They had three sons, William, Robert [3rd Earl of Leicester], and Roger [Chancellor of Scotland, Bishop of Saint Andrew], and four daughters, Arnice, Margaret (or Margery), Hawise (nun), and Pernel. He witnessed charter of his father in the period, c.1150-60. In 1172 his Norman fees consisted of 81 knights' fees of the honour of Bréteuil and 40 knights' fees of the honour of Grandmesnil. In 1173 he joined the revolt of Young King Henry, son of King Henry II of England. His English estates were confiscated and the town of Leicester was taken and burnt. King Henry II himself marched on Bréteuil, and captured and burned the place in Sept. 1173. Robert landed in England from Flanders the same month, at the head of a force of Flemings, and being joined by Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, they plundered Norwich and besieged and took the castle of Hagenet in October 1173. He and his wife were intercepted and taken prisoner at Fornham, near Bury St. Edmunds. In the king's treaty with Louis in Sept. 1174, provision was made for the earl's liberation. His castle of Leicester was demolished. His lands and honours were subsequently restored at the Council of Northampton in Jan. 1177, except for Mountsorrel Castle. He witnessed a charter of his cousin, Robert II, Count of Meulan, in 1180. In 1183 he was arrested and imprisoned with his brother-in-law, William, Earl of Gloucester. He was in attendence on the king at Christmas 1186. In 1189-90 he confirmed earlier grants to Nuneaton Priory made by Gervase Paynel, John de Cranford, and Roger Walensis. He attested a charter to the monks of Canterbury in 1189. He was present at the Coronation of King Richard I in 1189, where he carried one of the swords of state. A little after this ceremony, he departed for the Holy Land. Sometime before 1190 he confirmed the gifts of his parents to the leproserie of Bréteuil. He was a benefactor to the Abbey of Saint-Etienne of Caen, to that of Vaux-de-Cemai, to the Priories of Plessis-Grimoud and Sainte-Barbe in Auge, and also to the leproserie of Grand-Beaulieu in Chartres. At an unknown date, he granted the tithe of the fish in his fishponds at Groby, Leicestershire to Nuneaton Priory. At an unknown date, he granted one bovate of land in Groby, Leicestershire to his sister, Isabel, Countess of Northampton, which sometime in or after 1190, she gave to Nuneaton Priory with the provision that the service due be rendered to the earl of Leicester and his heirs. At an unknown date, he granted Saint-Etienne Abbey for the health of the soul of his wife, Countess Pernel, the right to have a turner in his forest of Bréteuil. SIR ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, 2nd Earl of Leicester, died at sea near Brindisi or in Rumania on the way to Jerusalem 31 August 1190, and was buried in Durazzo, Greece. In 1203 the king remitted to his widow, Pernel, the sum of 55 marks argent owed to Aaron, a Jew in Lincoln. In 1204 Pernel proffered 3,000 marks to have possession of Leicester, with its appurtenances, and for those fees which belonged to the honour of Grandmesnil. Saher de Quincy made counter-proffers and defeated Pernel's aims. Pernel, Countess of Leicester, died 1 April 1212.
  Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [de Clare]; charter mentions Robert, Earl of Leicester). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 686 (ped. of founders of Hospital of St. Leonard, Leicester: "Robertus oves les Blanc Meins, Comes Leicestrensis tertius, post conquestum, desponsavit Petronillam filiam Hugonis Grantmenyl, cum qua accepit totum honorem de Hincley unà cum senescatu Angliæ, ex dono ejusdem Hugonis, &c. Hic genuit de dictâ Petronillâ, Robertum dictum filium Petronillæ, hæredem; Rogerum, S. Andreæ in Scotiâ episcopum, et Willielmum leprosum, fundatorem hospitalis S. Leonardi Leicestriæ; Amiciam desponsatam Simoni de Monteforti, et Margaretam desponsatarn Saiero de Quinci, &c."), 1030 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester; charter names his mother, Amice), 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester; charter names his father, Robert, Earl of Leicester, and is witnessed by his wife, Countess Pernel, and his sons, William and Robert), 1093 (charter of Pernel, Countess of Leicester), 1095 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, witnessed by Countess Pernel). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et attires Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normancls 1(1834): 275-276 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Servois Notice & Extraits du Recueil des Miracles de Notre-Dame de Roc-Amadour (1856): 10. Merlet & Moutié Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay 1(1857): 100-101 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 101 footnote 2 (Nous citerons … une donation faite par Robert à le léproserie de Grand-Beaulieu, où l'on voit: His testibus: Petronilla comitissa, Roberto de Britoil, filio meo"). Delisle & Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir àl’Histoire du Département de l’Eure 1 (1862): 414-420, 433. Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 44 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 13 (1869): 317 (Chronicle of Robert de Torigny sub A.D. 1173: Hugh de Chateauneuf styled "cousin" [consobrinus] of Robert Earl of Leicester. 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituatiis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August. Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriae."), 486 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 April. Obiit Petronilla, comitissa Leycestriæ, guæ monachos Sancti Ebrulfi diligebat ut filios."), 488 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "31 August. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Legrecestriæ, peregrinus Jerosolimis."). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 45 (sub A.D. 1173 - Hugues de Châteauneuf styled "kinsman" [consobrinus] of Robert, Earl of Leicester). D.N.B. 4 (1885): 67-68 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 336-337 (sub Leicester). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Frideswide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 330 (charter of Robert son of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1170). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 10-11 (charter of Pernel, Countess of Leicester dated c.1200). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 136 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 136 (undated charter of Robert son of Robert Earl of Leicester). Deville Cartulaire de l’Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité de Beaumont-le-Roger (1912): 203-204 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1180). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248. C.P. 7 (1929): 530-533 (sub Leicester); 10 (1945): Appendix I, pg. 106, footnote b. Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 245 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 246, 259-260 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Paget (1957) 464:3. AR 53-26 citing C.P. IV 670 chart III, VII 520, 530-533; Old C.P. 8: 168). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-68). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Hanna Christchurch 137iog Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) P07): 173 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1185-90; witnessed by his wife, Countess P., and his sons, William and Robert de Brot).
  Children of Robert de Bréteuil, Knt., by Pernel de Grandmesnil:
  i. WILLIAM DE BRÉTEUIL, eldest son. He founded St. Leonard's at Leicester. He was a leper. He died in the lifetime of his father. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 686. Delisle & Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir l’Histoire du Département de l'Eure 1 (1862): 414-420. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 67-68 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester).
  ii. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, 3rd Earl of Leicester, 2nd but eldest surviving son and heir. He married LORETTE DE BREWES (or BRAOSE), daughter of William de Brewes. They had no issue. Sometime after 1190 he granted six virgates of land in Wyken near Hinkley, Leicestershire to Nuneaton Priory, in exchange for the land of Bernard of Waltham in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. He was invested with the earldom of Leicester by King Richard I at Messina in 1191. He was captured by Philippe Auguste, King of France in 1193, while defending Rouen. Following King Philippe's conquest of Paci in Normandy in 1194 (which was confirmed by treaty by King Richard I in 1195-6), Earl Robert, who was then a captive, was forced to cede Paci as a ransom. He made two futile attempts in 1198 to recover Paci in Normandy. In 1203-4 he granted the church of Lincoln and William, Bishop of Lincoln, 16 virgates of land in Thurmaston, with his capital messuage in the same village, in augmentation of the exchange assigned for the manor of Leicester. In 1204 he and William Marshal were sent as ambassadors to negotiate a truce with King Philippe Auguste of France. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, 3rd Earl of Leicester, died 20 October 1204. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Herford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 686. Merlet & Moutié Cartulaire
  
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  === De Grentmaisnil, De Beaumont, De Vere, ===
  De Grentmaisnil, De Beaumont, De Vere, Devereux Sources: Clutterbuck's History and Antiquities of Hertfordshire, England. Charts showing the descent of the owners of the Manor of Ware, from the time of William, the Conqueror, Vol. 3, pp. 287-90. Browning's Col. Dames of Royal Descent, p. 227. David Starr Jordan's "Your Family Tree", p. ..... Browning's Magna Charta Barons, p. ..... Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage, p. ..... Mellville's Ancestry of John Whitney. National Society Daughters of Barons of Runnemede. Register, pp. 183, 385.
  
  === He [Robert Earl of Leicester] married, b ===
  He [Robert Earl of Leicester] married, before 1155-1159, Pernel (Petronilla), heiress of the Norman honour of Grandmesnil, great-granddaughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday tenant, but her parentage has not been discovered (h). Robert died on his return journey from Jerusalem, 31 August 1190, at sea near Brindisi, or in Romania on his way to Jerusalem. His widow had a grant of the market and bridge at Ware for life, 10 March 1207/8. She died 1 April 1212. [Complete Peerage VII:530-3, XIV:429, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  (h) In the account of the foundation of Leicester Abbey she is called daughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, who is said to have given with her the honour of Hinckley and the seneschalship of England. This story is clearly wrong, since Orderic tells us that Robert Count of Meulan obtained the English lands from Ives, son of Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday tenant, and the Leicestershire Survey of 1124-1129 shows them to be held by the Earl of Leicester. Robert de Torigni, recording under the year 1168 the death of Robert Earl of Leicester, says that he left a son "qui accepit cum uxore sua hereditatem de Grentemesnill." As the Norman honour of Grandmesnil was in 1172 in the Earl of Leicester's hands, and as it had been separated from the English lands at the death of Hugh the Domesday tenant, descending to his eldest son Robert, this is clearly the inheritance which Pernel brought to her husband, and it is in the Norman branch that her ancestors must be sought. Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday tenant, had five sons - Robert, William, Hugh, Ives and Aubrey. With respect to the younger sons, William went to Apulia, where he m. Mabel, daughter of Robert Guiscard, and no more is heard of him in England or Normandy. Hugh d. young circa 1087, and was buried in St. Evroult. Ives succeeded to his father's lands in England, which he mortgaged and lost to Robert, Count of Meulan. He m. a daughter of Gilbert de Gand, and had a son Ives. Orderic says that two of Ive's sons perished in the White Ship; of these Ives the younger may be one. Nothing more is heard of Ives's descendants. Aubrey, the youngest son, was brought up a clerk, but eventually became a knight. Robert, the eldest son, inherited the Norman lands which are later found in Robert FitzPernel's hands [i.e. Robert, Earl of Leicester (d. 1204), the son of Pernel]. He m., 1stly, Agnes, daughter of Ranulph de Bayeux; 2ndly, Emma, daughter of Robert d'Estouteville; and, 3rdly, Lucy, daughter of Savary FitzCana. Orderic elsewhere says that Robert had a daughter Agnes, who m. Robert de Moulins, but otherwise he gives no information as to his children. Now we know that Pernel was the great-granddaughter of Hugh the Domesday tenant, and if she [Pernel] inherited the Norman lands she would in all probability be a daughter of a son of Hugh's son Robert. Hugh's father and son are both called Robert, and if this alternating nomenclature - a very usual system - was continued, a son of Robert the younger would be named Hugh. This is the name given to Pernel's father in the foundation narrative of Leicester Abbey, and although the story told there is fictitious, Pernel was a benefactress of the abbey, and it is possible that the writer may have had before him a document such as a list of obits giving the authentic name. It is not claimed that this suggested descent is more than speculative. Against this view must be set the entry in the Fine Rolls of 1204 which implies that the Leicestershire honour of Grandmesnil was the inheritance of Pernel, but as this is a recital of a bargain between her and the King after the death of her son Robert FitzPernel, its weight is greatly weakened; the more so as, for the reasons given above, it seems impossible for Pernel to have inherited the English lands.
  
  The following is from "Some Corrections and Addions to CP", concerning note (h) above:
  
  In fact, Pernel's father was called William, as shown by a charter for St-Evroult discovered by David Crouch [The Beaumont Twins, p.91, citing the Cartulary of St-Evroult, ii, fo 33v]. However, the argument that her grandfather is likely to have been Robert, the eldest son of Hugh de Grandmesnil, still seems sound. To some extent it is supported by the following evidence.
  
  In 1157, Henry II confirmed gifts made to the hospital of Falaise by William de Grentmesnil and others [Cal. Docs France, no 1157]. By an undated charter (perhaps from 1160 or later), one Beatrix de Rye gave land to the abbey of St Jean of Falaise, for the well-being of her mother Emma and of her brother William de Grentemesnil [Lechaude d'Anisy, Extrait des Chartes ... dans les archives du Calvados, vol.1, p.232, no 9 (1834)]. It seems likely that this Beatrix was a daughter of Robert de Grandmesnil by his second wife, Emma d'Estouteville, particularly as the name Beatrix occurs in the Estouteville family, and was possibly borne by Emma's mother [C.T. Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters, vol.9, p.2 (1952)]. If so, this would confirm that Robert also had a son William, who would probably be Pernel's father.
  
  Note that K.S.B. Keats-Rohan [Domesday People I, p.263 (1999)] states that Pernel's father William was the son of Robert by Emma d'Estouteville, but no evidence is cited for the relationship.
  
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  === Pernel (Petronilla) de Grandmesnil born ===
  Pernel (Petronilla) de Grandmesnil born circa 1134, died in 1212, married Sir Robert de Beaumont. Pernel and Robert de Beaumont had the following children:
  William de Bréteuil, the eldest son.
  Robert, the second son but eldest surviving son and heir, Earl of Leicester, and Steward of England, Seignuer of Bréteuil and Paci in Normandy, usually styled Robert FitzPernel, and during his father's life Robert de Bréteuil. It is stated in the charter of Robert FitzPernel to St. Evroult circa 1190 - 1204 that his mother Pernel de Grandmesnil was a great granddaughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday tenant as shown here.
  Roger, the third son, was Chancellor of William, King of Scots, who gave him in 1189 the see of St. Andrews. He was Bishop of St. Andrews.
  Amice who married as his 2nd wife Simon de Montfort
  Margaret de Beaumont who married Saher de Quincy
  Hawise who became a nun at Nuneaton
  Pernel
  
  === Heiress of the Norman Honor of Grandmesn ===
  Heiress of the Norman Honor of Grandmesnil.
  
  === Simon of Odell ===
  "The earl’s wife wanted to drown herself, when Simon of Odell saw to pulling her out: ‛My lady, come away from this place, and abandon your design! War is all a question of losing and winning."
  
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  === Wikipedia ===
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronilla_de_Grandmesnil,_Countess_of_Leicester
  === Life Sketch ===
  Wikipedia Petronilla de Grandmesnil, Countess of Leicester:
  
  "Petronilla, the daughter of a William de Grandmesnil, claimed to be the heiress of the Grandmesnil barony but her father's relationship to the family heads is uncertain. She married in the mid-1150s and bore at least seven children:
  
  William (d. before 1190)
  Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, FitzParnel/FitzPetronilla" (d. 1204) married Loretta de Braose
  Roger, Bishop of St. Andrews (d. 1202)
  Amice married (1) Simon de Montfort (d. 1188); parents of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester
  (2) William de Barres (d. 3 Sept. 1215)
  Margaret married Saer de Quincy, later 1st Earl of Winchester
  Hawise, who became a nun at Nuneaton Priory
  Pernel/Petronilla
  Two additional children are possible: Geoffrey and Mabel"
  
  Petronilla de Grandmesnil - Find-a-grave
  Petronilla de Grandmesnil, countess of Leicester was the daughter of one of three Grandmesnil brothers, William, Ivo, or Hugh, and wife of Robert de Beaumont III, earl of Leicester, known as "Blanchma
  
  === Simon of Odell ===
  "The earl’s wife wanted to drown herself, when Simon of Odell saw to pulling her out: ‛My lady, come away from this place, and abandon your design! War is all a question of losing and winning."
  
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  === Medieval Lands Biography ===
  Petronilla de Grandmesnil, Countess of Leicester (c. 1145 – 1212) was the wife of Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, known as "Blanchmains" (d. 1190). After a long widowhood, she was buried in Leicester Abbey after her death on 1 April 1212.
  The chronicler Jordan Fantosme wrote that Earl Robert and his wife Petronilla were participants in the 1173–1174 rebellion of Henry "the Young King" against King Henry II, his father. Jordan claimed that Earl Robert participated because of grievances against King Henry and credits dismissive remarks about the English who were fighting on the king's side to the countess: "The English are great boasters, but poor fighters; they are better at quaffing great tankards and guzzling." Countess Petronilla accompanied her husband on his military campaign against English troops under the command of the earl of Arundel and Humphrey III de Bohun. During the final showdown, she is said to have fled from the battle, only to be found in a ditch. "The earl’s wife wanted to drown herself, when Simon of Odell saw to pulling her out: ‛My lady, come away from this place, and abandon your design! War is all a question of losing and winning." She was noted as wearing male armour when captured. She was wearing a mail hauberk with a sword and a shield. Earl Robert was also captured and his holdings were confiscated. Countess Petronilla was released and during the earl's continued imprisonment he wrote to her asking that she discharge the bequests stated in his father's will.
  
  Family
  Petronilla claimed to be the heiress of the Grandmesnil barony, the daughter of a William de Grandmesnil, whose relationship to the family heads is uncertain. She married in the mid-1150s and bore at least seven children:
  1. William (d. before 1190)
  2. Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, "FitzParnel/FitzPetronilla" (d. 1204) married Loretta de Braose
  3. Roger, Bishop of St. Andrews (d. 1202)
  4. Amice married
  - (1) Simon de Montfort (d. 1188); parents of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester
  - (2) William de Barres (d. 3 Sept. 1215)
  5. Margaret married Saer de Quincy, later 1st Earl of Winchester
  6. Hawise, who became a nun at Nuneaton Priory
  7. Pernel/Petronilla
  Two additional children are possible:
  8. Geoffrey and
  9. Mabel
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronilla_de_Grandmesnil,_Countess_of_Leicester
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  PERNEL [Petronille] (-1 Apr 1212). Pernel is named as great-granddaughter of Hugues de Grantmesnil in the [1190/1204] charter of her son Robert FitzPernel to the abbey of St Evroul[417]. She names her father “Guillaume” in one of her charters for Notre-Dame-du-Bois de Saint-Evroult[418]. Her father is named Hugues de Grantmesnil (supposed son of Robert de Grantmesnil) in an account of the foundation of Leicester Abbey, although the Complete Peerage casts doubt on the accuracy of this document as the same source gives details of properties she inherited from her supposed father which are incompatible with this parentage[419]. Robert de Torigny records that Pernel’s husband gained the Norman honour of Grantmesnil through his marriage[420]. "Robertus filius comitis Legrece" donated property to Notre-Dame de la Trappe for the soul of "uxoris mee Petronille" by charter dated [1153/67][421]. “Robertus comes Legrec” confirmed property in Garendon and “in nemoribus meis de Sepehevid et de Disselai” to Garendon abbey by charter dated 1169, witnessed by “Petronilla comitissa, Willo filio meo...”[422]. "Petronilla comitissa Leircestrie" confirmed the exchange of land with Nuneaton priory made by "Robertus comes Leircestrie filius meus", who gave land in Belgrave in return for land in Dadlington which had been donated by "sponsus meus Robertus comes…cum filia mea pie memorie Hawis", by charter dated to after 1189[423]. The Testa de Nevill lists knights who held land from the king in Hertfordshire, dated to [1204/12]: "comitissa de Leicestria" held "Wares"[424]. The necrology of Lyre monastery records the death "1 Apr" of "Petronilla comitissa Leicestriæ"[425]. The necrology of the monastery of Ouche records the death "1 Apr" of "Petronilla comitissa Leycestriæ"[426]. The necrology of Garendon abbey (Leicestershire) records the death “Kal Apr” of “Petronilla de Grantamenile uxor ipsius Roberti secundi”[427]. m (before [1155/59]) ROBERT de Beaumont "ès Blanchemains", son of ROBERT de Beaumont Earl of Leicester & his wife Amicie de Gaël (-Durazzo 1190). He succeeded his father in 1168 as Earl of Leicester.
  
  [Source: Medieval Lands, "PERNEL [Petronille] (-1 Apr 1212)", retrieved 16 November 2018, dvmansur; see link in Sources.]
  
  === Sources: Kraentzler 1117, 1123; Norr; A. ===
  Sources: Kraentzler 1117, 1123; Norr; A. Roots 53; Ayers, p432. K: Pernel de Grandmesnil. Born about 1134. Roots: Petronilla (or Pernell) de Grandmesnil, daughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil and great-granddaugther of of Hugh de Grandmesnil, who was with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Ayers: Pernell or Petronilla de Grentmesnil. Married 1168. Living1179.
  
  === Heiress of the Norman Honor of Grandmesn ===
  Heiress of the Norman Honor of Grandmesnil.
  
  === 1. "Blood Royal, Issue of the Kings and ===
  1. "Blood Royal, Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England 1099- 1399, The Normans and the Plantagenets", by T. Anna Leese, HeritageBooks, Inc., 1996. 2. World Family Tree CD V715-01, Vol 15, dated @1997 BroderbundSoftware, Inc., Pedigree #2288.
  
  === !DEATH: Diary and autobiography of Edmun ===
  !DEATH: Diary and autobiography of Edmund Bohun, 1853 Royal Genealogies of Magna Carte Barons
  
  === Pernel (Petronilla) de Grandmesnil born ===
  Pernel (Petronilla) de Grandmesnil born circa 1134, died in 1212, married Sir Robert de Beaumont. Pernel and Robert de Beaumont had the following children:
  William de Bréteuil, the eldest son.
  Robert, the second son but eldest surviving son and heir, Earl of Leicester, and Steward of England, Seignuer of Bréteuil and Paci in Normandy, usually styled Robert FitzPernel, and during his father's life Robert de Bréteuil. It is stated in the charter of Robert FitzPernel to St. Evroult circa 1190 - 1204 that his mother Pernel de Grandmesnil was a great granddaughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday tenant as shown here.
  Roger, the third son, was Chancellor of William, King of Scots, who gave him in 1189 the see of St. Andrews. He was Bishop of St. Andrews.
  Amice who married as his 2nd wife Simon de Montfort
  Margaret de Beaumont who married Saher de Quincy
  Hawise who became a nun at Nuneaton
  Pernel
  
  === ! Royal Ancestors of Some L.D.S. Familie ===
  ! Royal Ancestors of Some L.D.S. Families by Michel L. Call. 1975, p.178.
  
  === !SOURCE: Nichols Lestrs vol. 1 pt 1 p 98 ===
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  === !#21> Complete Peerage-v7-p520ped,532,-v ===
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  === !SOURCE: ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF SIXTY COLON ===
  !SOURCE: ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF SIXTY COLONISTS WHO CAME TO AMERICA BETWEEN 1623 AND 1650, 6TH ED 1988, PG 62, LINE 53 ITEM 26
  
  === M L Call: The Royal Ancestry Bible Vol ===
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  === De Grentmaisnil, De Beaumont, De Vere, ===
  De Grentmaisnil, De Beaumont, De Vere, Devereux Sources: Clutterbuck's History and Antiquities of Hertfordshire, England. Charts showing the descent of the owners of the Manor of Ware, from the time of William, the Conqueror, Vol. 3, pp. 287-90. Browning's Col. Dames of Royal Descent, p. 227. David Starr Jordan's "Your Family Tree", p. ..... Browning's Magna Charta Barons, p. ..... Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage, p. ..... Mellville's Ancestry of John Whitney. National Society Daughters of Barons of Runnemede. Register, pp. 183, 385.
  
  === He [Robert Earl of Leicester] married, b ===
  He [Robert Earl of Leicester] married, before 1155-1159, Pernel (Petronilla), heiress of the Norman honour of Grandmesnil, great-granddaughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday tenant, but her parentage has not been discovered (h). Robert died on his return journey from Jerusalem, 31 August 1190, at sea near Brindisi, or in Romania on his way to Jerusalem. His widow had a grant of the market and bridge at Ware for life, 10 March 1207/8. She died 1 April 1212. [Complete Peerage VII:530-3, XIV:429, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  (h) In the account of the foundation of Leicester Abbey she is called daughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, who is said to have given with her the honour of Hinckley and the seneschalship of England. This story is clearly wrong, since Orderic tells us that Robert Count of Meulan obtained the English lands from Ives, son of Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday tenant, and the Leicestershire Survey of 1124-1129 shows them to be held by the Earl of Leicester. Robert de Torigni, recording under the year 1168 the death of Robert Earl of Leicester, says that he left a son "qui accepit cum uxore sua hereditatem de Grentemesnill." As the Norman honour of Grandmesnil was in 1172 in the Earl of Leicester's hands, and as it had been separated from the English lands at the death of Hugh the Domesday tenant, descending to his eldest son Robert, this is clearly the inheritance which Pernel brought to her husband, and it is in the Norman branch that her ancestors must be sought. Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday tenant, had five sons - Robert, William, Hugh, Ives and Aubrey. With respect to the younger sons, William went to Apulia, where he m. Mabel, daughter of Robert Guiscard, and no more is heard of him in England or Normandy. Hugh d. young circa 1087, and was buried in St. Evroult. Ives succeeded to his father's lands in England, which he mortgaged and lost to Robert, Count of Meulan. He m. a daughter of Gilbert de Gand, and had a son Ives. Orderic says that two of Ive's sons perished in the White Ship; of these Ives the younger may be one. Nothing more is heard of Ives's descendants. Aubrey, the youngest son, was brought up a clerk, but eventually became a knight. Robert, the eldest son, inherited the Norman lands which are later found in Robert FitzPernel's hands [i.e. Robert, Earl of Leicester (d. 1204), the son of Pernel]. He m., 1stly, Agnes, daughter of Ranulph de Bayeux; 2ndly, Emma, daughter of Robert d'Estouteville; and, 3rdly, Lucy, daughter of Savary FitzCana. Orderic elsewhere says that Robert had a daughter Agnes, who m. Robert de Moulins, but otherwise he gives no information as to his children. Now we know that Pernel was the great-granddaughter of Hugh the Domesday tenant, and if she [Pernel] inherited the Norman lands she would in all probability be a daughter of a son of Hugh's son Robert. Hugh's father and son are both called Robert, and if this alternating nomenclature - a very usual system - was continued, a son of Robert the younger would be named Hugh. This is the name given to Pernel's father in the foundation narrative of Leicester Abbey, and although the story told there is fictitious, Pernel was a benefactress of the abbey, and it is possible that the writer may have had before him a document such as a list of obits giving the authentic name. It is not claimed that this suggested descent is more than speculative. Against this view must be set the entry in the Fine Rolls of 1204 which implies that the Leicestershire honour of Grandmesnil was the inheritance of Pernel, but as this is a recital of a bargain between her and the King after the death of her son Robert FitzPernel, its weight is greatly weakened; the more so as, for the reasons given above, it seems impossible for Pernel to have inherited the English lands.
  
  The following is from "Some Corrections and Addions to CP", concerning note (h) above:
  
  In fact, Pernel's father was called William, as shown by a charter for St-Evroult discovered by David Crouch [The Beaumont Twins, p.91, citing the Cartulary of St-Evroult, ii, fo 33v]. However, the argument that her grandfather is likely to have been Robert, the eldest son of Hugh de Grandmesnil, still seems sound. To some extent it is supported by the following evidence.
  
  In 1157, Henry II confirmed gifts made to the hospital of Falaise by William de Grentmesnil and others [Cal. Docs France, no 1157]. By an undated charter (perhaps from 1160 or later), one Beatrix de Rye gave land to the abbey of St Jean of Falaise, for the well-being of her mother Emma and of her brother William de Grentemesnil [Lechaude d'Anisy, Extrait des Chartes ... dans les archives du Calvados, vol.1, p.232, no 9 (1834)]. It seems likely that this Beatrix was a daughter of Robert de Grandmesnil by his second wife, Emma d'Estouteville, particularly as the name Beatrix occurs in the Estouteville family, and was possibly borne by Emma's mother [C.T. Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters, vol.9, p.2 (1952)]. If so, this would confirm that Robert also had a son William, who would probably be Pernel's father.
  
  Note that K.S.B. Keats-Rohan [Domesday People I, p.263 (1999)] states that Pernel's father William was the son of Robert by Emma d'Estouteville, but no evidence is cited for the relationship.
  
  === Royal Ancestry Biography ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  "ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., nicknamed “ès Blanchemains,” 2nd Earl of Leicester, Steward of England and Normandy, seigneur of Bréteuil and Paci in Normandy, son and heir, born before 1135 (adult by 1153). He married before 1155/59 PERNEL DE GRANDMESNIL, daughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, of Hinckley, Leicestershire. They had three sons, William, Robert [3rd Earl of Leicester], and Roger [Chancellor of Scotland, Bishop of Saint Andrew], and four daughters, Arnice, Margaret (or Margery), Hawise (nun), and Pernel. He witnessed charter of his father in the period, c.1150-60. In 1172 his Norman fees consisted of 81 knights' fees of the honour of Bréteuil and 40 knights' fees of the honour of Grandmesnil. In 1173 he joined the revolt of Young King Henry, son of King Henry II of England. His English estates were confiscated and the town of Leicester was taken and burnt. King Henry II himself marched on Bréteuil, and captured and burned the place in Sept. 1173. Robert landed in England from Flanders the same month, at the head of a force of Flemings, and being joined by Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, they plundered Norwich and besieged and took the castle of Hagenet in October 1173. He and his wife were intercepted and taken prisoner at Fornham, near Bury St. Edmunds. In the king's treaty with Louis in Sept. 1174, provision was made for the earl's liberation. His castle of Leicester was demolished. His lands and honours were subsequently restored at the Council of Northampton in Jan. 1177, except for Mountsorrel Castle. He witnessed a charter of his cousin, Robert II, Count of Meulan, in 1180. In 1183 he was arrested and imprisoned with his brother-in-law, William, Earl of Gloucester. He was in attendence on the king at Christmas 1186. In 1189-90 he confirmed earlier grants to Nuneaton Priory made by Gervase Paynel, John de Cranford, and Roger Walensis. He attested a charter to the monks of Canterbury in 1189. He was present at the Coronation of King Richard I in 1189, where he carried one of the swords of state. A little after this ceremony, he departed for the Holy Land. Sometime before 1190 he confirmed the gifts of his parents to the leproserie of Bréteuil. He was a benefactor to the Abbey of Saint-Etienne of Caen, to that of Vaux-de-Cemai, to the Priories of Plessis-Grimoud and Sainte-Barbe in Auge, and also to the leproserie of Grand-Beaulieu in Chartres. At an unknown date, he granted the tithe of the fish in his fishponds at Groby, Leicestershire to Nuneaton Priory. At an unknown date, he granted one bovate of land in Groby, Leicestershire to his sister, Isabel, Countess of Northampton, which sometime in or after 1190, she gave to Nuneaton Priory with the provision that the service due be rendered to the earl of Leicester and his heirs. At an unknown date, he granted Saint-Etienne Abbey for the health of the soul of his wife, Countess Pernel, the right to have a turner in his forest of Bréteuil. SIR ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, 2nd Earl of Leicester, died at sea near Brindisi or in Rumania on the way to Jerusalem 31 August 1190, and was buried in Durazzo, Greece. In 1203 the king remitted to his widow, Pernel, the sum of 55 marks argent owed to Aaron, a Jew in Lincoln. In 1204 Pernel proffered 3,000 marks to have possession of Leicester, with its appurtenances, and for those fees which belonged to the honour of Grandmesnil. Saher de Quincy made counter-proffers and defeated Pernel's aims. Pernel, Countess of Leicester, died 1 April 1212.
  Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [de Clare]; charter mentions Robert, Earl of Leicester). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 686 (ped. of founders of Hospital of St. Leonard, Leicester: "Robertus oves les Blanc Meins, Comes Leicestrensis tertius, post conquestum, desponsavit Petronillam filiam Hugonis Grantmenyl, cum qua accepit totum honorem de Hincley unà cum senescatu Angliæ, ex dono ejusdem Hugonis, &c. Hic genuit de dictâ Petronillâ, Robertum dictum filium Petronillæ, hæredem; Rogerum, S. Andreæ in Scotiâ episcopum, et Willielmum leprosum, fundatorem hospitalis S. Leonardi Leicestriæ; Amiciam desponsatam Simoni de Monteforti, et Margaretam desponsatarn Saiero de Quinci, &c."), 1030 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester; charter names his mother, Amice), 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester; charter names his father, Robert, Earl of Leicester, and is witnessed by his wife, Countess Pernel, and his sons, William and Robert), 1093 (charter of Pernel, Countess of Leicester), 1095 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, witnessed by Countess Pernel). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et attires Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normancls 1(1834): 275-276 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Servois Notice & Extraits du Recueil des Miracles de Notre-Dame de Roc-Amadour (1856): 10. Merlet & Moutié Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay 1(1857): 100-101 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 101 footnote 2 (Nous citerons … une donation faite par Robert à le léproserie de Grand-Beaulieu, où l'on voit: His testibus: Petronilla comitissa, Roberto de Britoil, filio meo"). Delisle & Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir àl’Histoire du Département de l’Eure 1 (1862): 414-420, 433. Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 44 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 13 (1869): 317 (Chronicle of Robert de Torigny sub A.D. 1173: Hugh de Chateauneuf styled "cousin" [consobrinus] of Robert Earl of Leicester. 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituatiis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August. Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriae."), 486 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 April. Obiit Petronilla, comitissa Leycestriæ, guæ monachos Sancti Ebrulfi diligebat ut filios."), 488 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "31 August. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Legrecestriæ, peregrinus Jerosolimis."). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 45 (sub A.D. 1173 - Hugues de Châteauneuf styled "kinsman" [consobrinus] of Robert, Earl of Leicester). D.N.B. 4 (1885): 67-68 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 336-337 (sub Leicester). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Frideswide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 330 (charter of Robert son of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1170). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 10-11 (charter of Pernel, Countess of Leicester dated c.1200). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 136 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 136 (undated charter of Robert son of Robert Earl of Leicester). Deville Cartulaire de l’Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité de Beaumont-le-Roger (1912): 203-204 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1180). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248. C.P. 7 (1929): 530-533 (sub Leicester); 10 (1945): Appendix I, pg. 106, footnote b. Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 245 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 246, 259-260 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Paget (1957) 464:3. AR 53-26 citing C.P. IV 670 chart III, VII 520, 530-533; Old C.P. 8: 168). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-68). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Hanna Christchurch 137iog Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) P07): 173 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1185-90; witnessed by his wife, Countess P., and his sons, William and Robert de Brot).
  Children of Robert de Bréteuil, Knt., by Pernel de Grandmesnil:
  i. WILLIAM DE BRÉTEUIL, eldest son. He founded St. Leonard's at Leicester. He was a leper. He died in the lifetime of his father. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 686. Delisle & Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir l’Histoire du Département de l'Eure 1 (1862): 414-420. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 67-68 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester).
  ii. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, 3rd Earl of Leicester, 2nd but eldest surviving son and heir. He married LORETTE DE BREWES (or BRAOSE), daughter of William de Brewes. They had no issue. Sometime after 1190 he granted six virgates of land in Wyken near Hinkley, Leicestershire to Nuneaton Priory, in exchange for the land of Bernard of Waltham in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. He was invested with the earldom of Leicester by King Richard I at Messina in 1191. He was captured by Philippe Auguste, King of France in 1193, while defending Rouen. Following King Philippe's conquest of Paci in Normandy in 1194 (which was confirmed by treaty by King Richard I in 1195-6), Earl Robert, who was then a captive, was forced to cede Paci as a ransom. He made two futile attempts in 1198 to recover Paci in Normandy. In 1203-4 he granted the church of Lincoln and William, Bishop of Lincoln, 16 virgates of land in Thurmaston, with his capital messuage in the same village, in augmentation of the exchange assigned for the manor of Leicester. In 1204 he and William Marshal were sent as ambassadors to negotiate a truce with King Philippe Auguste of France. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, 3rd Earl of Leicester, died 20 October 1204. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Herford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 686. Merlet & Moutié Cartulaire
  
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  === Wikipedia ===
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronilla_de_Grandmesnil,_Countess_of_Leicester
  
  === !SOURCE: PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPERO ===
  !SOURCE: PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPEROR CHRLEMAGNES DESCENDANTS Vol III,compiled by J.Orton Buck & Timothy Field Beard Baltimore 1988; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.

1. Mary De Beaumont, b. 1160 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England     d. 1186 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England

• m. environ 1150

1. Margaret de Beaumont Countess of Winchester, b. ABT 1154 in Leicestershire, England     d. 12 JAN 1235 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
2. Margaret FitzPernal Harcourt Countess Winchester Baroness Quincy Beaumont, b. 1156 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England     d. 12 JAN 1234 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
3. Amicia de Beaumont, b. 1142 in Leicester, Leicestershire, Angleterre     d. 3 SEP 1215 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France

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   Note: PERNEL [Petronille] (-1 Apr 1212). Pernel is named as great-granddaughter of Hugues de Grantmesnil in the [1190/1204] charter of her son Robert FitzPernel to the abbey of St Evroul[417]. She names her father “Guillaume” in one of her charters for Notre-Dame-du-Bois de Saint-Evroult[418]. Her father is named Hugues de Grantmesnil (supposed son of Robert de Grantmesnil) in an account of the foundation of Leicester Abbey, although the Complete Peerage casts doubt on the accuracy of this document as the same source gives details of properties she inherited from her supposed father which are incompatible with this parentage[419]. Robert de Torigny records that Pernel’s husband gained the Norman honour of Grantmesnil through his marriage[420]. "Robertus filius comitis Legrece" donated property to Notre-Dame de la Trappe for the soul of "uxoris mee Petronille" by charter dated [1153/67][421]. “Robertus comes Legrec” confirmed property in Garendon and “in nemoribus meis de Sepehevid et de Disselai” to Garendon abbey by charter dated 1169, witnessed by “Petronilla comitissa, Willo filio meo...”[422]. "Petronilla comitissa Leircestrie" confirmed the exchange of land with Nuneaton priory made by "Robertus comes Leircestrie filius meus", who gave land in Belgrave in return for land in Dadlington which had been donated by "sponsus meus Robertus comes…cum filia mea pie memorie Hawis", by charter dated to after 1189[423]. The Testa de Nevill lists knights who held land from the king in Hertfordshire, dated to [1204/12]: "comitissa de Leicestria" held "Wares"[424]. The necrology of Lyre monastery records the death "1 Apr" of "Petronilla comitissa Leicestriæ"[425]. The necrology of the monastery of Ouche records the death "1 Apr" of "Petronilla comitissa Leycestriæ"[426]. The necrology of Garendon abbey (Leicestershire) records the death “Kal Apr” of “Petronilla de Grantamenile uxor ipsius Roberti secundi”[427]. m (before [1155/59]) ROBERT de Beaumont "ès Blanchemains", son of ROBERT de Beaumont Earl of Leicester & his wife Amicie de Gaël (-Durazzo 1190). He succeeded his father in 1168 as Earl of Leicester.