Person:Ivo de Grandmesnil (1)
Ivo de Grantmesnil
b.Abt 1062 Normandie, France
d.1118
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1050
  1. Robert de GrantmesnilBef 1060 - Abt 1136
  2. Ivo de GrantmesnilAbt 1062 - 1118
  3. Agnes de GrantmesnilAbt 1070 -
  4. Alice De GrentesmaismilAbt 1136 -
  5. Guillaume de Grantmesnil - Bef 1114
  6. Hugues de Grantmesnil
  7. Aubrey de Grantmesnil - Aft Abt 1097
  8. Adelina de Grantmesnil - Abt 1110/11
  9. Hawise de Grantmesnil
  10. Rohese de Grantmesnil
  11. Mathilde de Grantmesnil
Spouse and Children
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  1. Ivo de GrentesmaismilAbt 1090 -
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Facts and Events
Name[2] Ivo de Grantmesnil
Alt Name Ivo de Grentesmaismil
Alt Name Ives _____
Alt Name Ivo _____, Baron de Grentesmaisnel
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1062 Normandie, France
Alt Birth? Abt 1064 Grentemesnil, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
Marriage to Unknown de Gant
Alt Death[2] Aft 1102
Death? 1118
Reference Number? Q11802201?


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Ivo de Grandmesnil (died 1101 or 1102), son of Hugh de Grandmesnil, was a Norman magnate in England and a participant in the First Crusade, in 1096.

Ivo participated in the first crusade in 1096, following Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy. Having been among the nobles who rebelled against William Rufus in 1088, participation in the crusade was a good way to avoid the English king's wrath. However, Ivo became a figure of some derision when, during the Siege of Antioch, he and some his compatriots (including his brother) panicked, let themselves over the city walls by rope and fled back home.

After the death of his father in 1098, he inherited the town and castle of Leicester and additional estates, assuming the title of Sheriff of Leicester.

He was among the barons supporting the claims of Robert Curthose against his brother Henry I in 1100.

In 1102, after the attempt to put Curthose on the English throne had failed, Ivo was severely fined by King Henry I for waging private war against his neighbors. He sought the help of Robert de Beaumont, who agreed to help Ivo return to the king's favor, and took mortgage of Ivo's lands for fifteen years in return for a large sum which Ivo would use to go back to the Holy Land. In addition, Robert agreed to eventually marry the infant daughter of his brother Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick to Ivo's young son, and to return the mortgaged lands to the son. [Note: some sources say that it was Robert's infant daughter that was promised since his brother is not known to have any daughters.]

Ivo de Grandmesnil and his wife died on the pilgrimage in 1101 or 1102, but Robert de Beaumont retained control of his estates even after the end of the fifteen years, dispossessing Ivo's sons, Ivo II and William. Deathbed attempts to induce him to return them were unavailing. Two years later Henry I made plans to return the lands to the sons, who were probably serving in the king's household, but both died in the wreck of the White Ship in 1120.

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References
  1.   Ivo de Grandmesnil, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
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