Ivo de Grandmesnil

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Ivo de Grandmesnil (d. 1101 or 1102), son of Hugh de Grandmesnil, was a Norman magnate in England and a participator 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.^{[citation needed]}

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, and becoming master of Earl Shilton manor.

He was among the barons supporting the claims of Robert Curthose against his brother Henry I in 1100, but after Robert's renunciation of his claims to the throne, Ivo was severely fined and had to mortgage his lands to Robert de Beaumont.

Ivo de Grandmesnil and his wife died on a pilgrimage in 1101 or 1102, and Robert de Beaumont was created Earl of Leicester in 1107, thus finally dispossessing Ivo's son (also named Ivo de Grandmesnil), who later died in a shipwreck in 1120.

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• David Crouch, 'Grandmesnil, Ivo de (d. 1101/2)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14504, accessed 26 May 2006