Aubrey de Grandmesnil

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Aubrey de Grandmesnil

Also Known As: "Alberic", "Grantmesnil", "Grentemesnil"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: L'Oudon, Duché de Normandie, France
Death: 1119 (48-58)
Immediate Family:

Son of Hugues "the Elder" de Grandmesnil, Sheriff of Leicester and Aélis de Beaumont-sur-Oise
Brother of Robert II FitzHugh de Grandmesnil; Guillaume de Grandmesnil; Adeline de Grentmesnil; Hugues de Grentmesnil; Rohese de Grentemesnil and 4 others

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About Aubrey de Grandmesnil

AUBREY de Grantmesnil

(-after [Jul] 1097). He is named, and his parentage given, by Orderic Vitalis, who specifies that he abandoned a clerical life for the life of a knight, accompanying his brother Guillaume on the First Crusade and at one time wounding Tancred (later Prince of Antioch)[380]. Orderic Vitalis reports that in [Jul] 1097 Aubrey and his brother Guillaume were among those who, fearing that Antioch would be recaptured by the Turks, let "themselves down the wall with ropes" in order to escape and "were called clandestine rope-dancers to their lasting disgrace"[381].

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Aubrey de Grandmesnil's Timeline

1066
1066
L'Oudon, Duché de Normandie, France
1119
1119
Age 53