Ivo de Grandmesnil
- Born: Abt 1064, Grentemesnil, Calvados, Normandy, France
- Marriage: Mademoiselle de Grand 141,195,190
- Died: 1101-1102, on pilgrimage to Palistine about age 37 177
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• Background Information. 195
Ivo, son of Hugh de Grandmesnil and Adeliza de Beaumaunt, inherited his father's sheriffdom and his English estates. He married a daughter of (de Gand), lord of Folkingham and other lands in Lincolnshire. Ivo, along with his brother's Willaim and Alberic, went on the first crusade, and were among the 'rope-dancers' (under cover of darkness secretly let themselves down from the wall on ropes) of Antioch [William of Tyre, vi. 4, ap. Gesta Dei per Francos, p. 715; Orderic, p. 805]. Four of Hugh's daughters were married [Orderic, p. 602].
Ivo in 1101, after his return to England, levied private war on his neighbors, was tried, and made an arrangement with Robert of Meulan, by which he secured Robert's good offices with the king, but was forced to agree to a marriage between his young son Ivo and Robert's niece. He died on his pilgrimage.
~ Rev. William Hunt, The Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. X, pp. 159-160
• Background Information. 141
Ives (Ivo) succeeded to his father's land in England, which he mortgaged and lost to Robert, count of Meulan. Ives married a daughter of Gilbert de Grand, and had a son also named Ives. Orderic says that two of Ives's sons perished in the White Ship.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Leicester), Vol. VII , p. 532, footnote (h)
• Background Information. 201
Ivo, fourth son of Hugh de Grantmesnil, was taken prisoner by Robert de Belème. Among the prisoners was Richard de Clare, son of Gilbert comté de Brionne, who did not long survive the sufferings he endured in captivity.
~ The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Vol. II, pp. 506, 508
Ivo married Mademoiselle de Grand, daughter of Gilbert de Gand 1st Earl of Lincoln and Alicia de Montfort 141,190.,195
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