Hugh II de Grandmesnil Baron of Hinckley

  General Notes:

Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 53:26, identifies Petronilla or Pernell as the daughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, and the great-granddaughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, a Companion of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Pernel - 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 [CP VII 532, footnote g]. She names her father “Guillaume” in one of her charters for Notre-Dame-du-Bois de Saint-Evroult [Crouch (1986), p. 91, footnote 140, citing “Cartulaire de l’abbaye Notre-Dame-du-Bois de Saint-Evroult, ii, fol. 33v”].