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Bibliography
  1. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol I: Domesday Book. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 1. Corrections in Volume II (Domesday Descendants) pp 4-5. Further corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-people-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p[0-9]*].
  2. Searle, Eleanor Predatory kinship and the creation of Norman power, 840-1066. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1988. NYPL JFE 88-2496. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Searle PredatoryKinship p[0-9]*].

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second son [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p262],
parents:
[Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p262, Searle PredatoryKinship p263]
Research Notes:
with his brother Hugh, inherited a part of the family fief [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p262]

abt 1050: along with his brother Hugh were immortalized by their decision to found a monastery; the site chosen being unsuitable, they followed the advice of their uncle and decided to refound the ancient abbey of Saint-Evroul. The monk and historian of Saint-Evroult, Orderic Vitalis, tells uso fthe generous endowment of the abbey by the brothers and their maternal kin [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p262]

abt 1050: enter the abbey of Saint-Evroul as a monk [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p262]

1059: abbot of Saint Evroul [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p262]

1061: exiled after being falsely accused by Mabel of Belleme, wife of Roger de Montgomery, in the wake of a rebellion by Robert fitz Giroie [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p262]

became an Abbot in Sicily [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p262]



Pedigree of Robert De Grentmesnil
 /-----Robert De Grentmesnil
Robert De Grentmesnil
|         /-----Girole De Echafour
 \-----Hawise De Echafour
         |         /-----Thursten De Bastenburgh
          \-----Gisela De Bastenburgh



Descendants of Robert De Grentmesnil
1. Robert De Grentmesnil