Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page


Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Guillaume De Grantmesnil Birth: 1 Death: Before 1127
  2. Robert De Grantmesnil Birth: 2

Bibliography
  1. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 07 Hussee-Lincolnshire. London: St Catherine Press, 1929. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP VII [Ap][p0-9].*].
  2. Phillips, Chris, Ancestry of Petronella de Grandmesnil. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 8/9/1999. Subject: Ancestry of Petronella de Grandmesnil (rather long). Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/2LxfjMCvo5Y/m/4FxrMqnqTysJ. Author address: cg dot phillips at ic dot ac dot uk. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Chris Phillips SGM 8/9/1999-A].
  3. Clutterbuck, Robert, History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1815-27, v1-3. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/188626. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Clutterbuck Hertford v[1-3]p[0-9]*].
  4. Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. II: Die Ausserdeutschen Staaten Die Regierenden Hauser der Ubrigen Staaten Europas. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ES II #[0-9]*].
  5. Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. III.4 (#601-#820): Das Feudale Frankreich und sein Einfluss auf die Welt des Mittelalters. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1989. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ES III.4 #[0-9]*].
  6. 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]*].
  7. Taviani-Carozzi, Le terreur du monde; Robert Guiscard et la conquete normande de l'Italie. Paris, Fayard, 1996. NYPL JFE 96-14915. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Taviani-Carozzi Guiscard].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
second son [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p263],
parents:
[Ref: CP VII p532(h), Clutterbuck Hertford v3p287, Keats-Rohan DP p263],
father:
[Ref: CP VII p532(g), Chris Phillips SGM 8/9/1999-A]
Sources for death Information
date:
before 1114 [Ref: Chris Phillips SGM 8/9/1999-A]
Sources with Inaccurate death Information
date:
occ 1130 [Ref: ES III.4 #697]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mabel
date:
nach 1088 [Ref: ES III.4 #697],
names:
[Ref: CP VII p532(g), ES II #205, Taviani-Carozzi Guiscard],
child:
[Ref: Chris Phillips SGM 8/9/1999-A]
Research Notes:
1098: one of the "rope dancers of Antioch" [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p263]

settled in Apulia [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p263]

although Chalandon [F.Chalandon, Histoire de la Domination Normande en Italie et en Sicile (1907)] cites a supposed charter to which William is a party in 1122, Jamison [E.M.Jamison, Some Notes on the Anonymi Gesta Francorum ... (1939), in Studies on the History of Medieval Sicily and South Italy (1992), p.291] mentions at least three documents between 1114 and 1117 which imply he is dead. [Ref: Chris Phillips SGM 8/9/1999-A]

heir was his son William, succeeded by his brother Robert by the late 1120s [Ref: Chris Phillips SGM 8/9/1999-A]



Pedigree of Guillaume De Grantmesnil
          /-----Robert De Grentmesnil
 /-----Hugh De Grantmesnil, Baron Of Leicester
|        |         /-----Girole De Echafour
|         \-----Hawise De Echafour
|                 |         /-----Thursten De Bastenburgh
|                  \-----Gisela De Bastenburgh
Guillaume De Grantmesnil
|                                             /-----Ivo
|                                    /-----Ivo
|                                   |         \-----Geila
|                           /-----Ivo Count Of Belemontensis
|                  /-----Ivo I Count Of Beaumont
|         /-----Ivo II Count Of Beaumont
|        |         \-----Emma
 \-----Adeliza Of Beaumont
          \-----Judith



Descendants of Guillaume De Grantmesnil
1. Guillaume De Grantmesnil m. Mabel
m. Mabel father: Robert Guiscard Count Of Apulia And Of Calabr mother: Sikelgaita Of Salerno