James Francis, H. (1923). Hugh de Grentemesnil and his Family. Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 13. Vol 13, Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. pp. 155-198. https://doi.org/10.5284/1108021. Cite this via datacite
| Title: | Hugh de Grentemesnil and his Family | ||
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| Issue: | Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 13 | ||
| Series: | Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | ||
| Volume: | 13 | ||
| Page Start/End: | 155 - 198 | ||
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| Abstract: | When the fiscal survey known as the Domesday Book was compiled, two churches, a hundred and ten houses, and certain other properties in the borough of Leicester, and more than seventy manors in the county, were held by Hugh de Grentemesnil, a Norman baron who had fought at Hastings and had taken a leading part in the subjugation of England. This powerful nobleman was thus by far the greatest landowner in Leicester shire, and his estates formed the nucleus of the honour attached to the earldom of Leicester, which was created in the next century, when the local pre-eminence and possessions of the Grentemesnils passed to the still more important family of Beaumont, from which Simon de Montfort, the last of the pre- Lancastrian earls, derived his right of succession. | ||
| Year of Publication: | 1923 | ||
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| Created Date: | 08 Jun 2023 |
