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Notities over Richard de Granville

A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852
by Sir Bernard Burke
pg 495

Lineage
It is a melancholy reflection," says Dr. Borlase, " to look back on so many great families who have formerly adorned the county of Cornwall, and in the male line are now no more: the Granvilles, the Canninows, the Champernownes, the Bodrugans, Mohuns, Killegrews, Bevils, Trevanions, which had great sway and possessions in these parts. The most lasting families have only their seasons, more or less, of a certain constitutional strength. They have their spring, and summer sunshine glare, their wane, decline, and death." The Granvilles claim descent from Rollo, the celebrated northern chieftain, who, being driven from Norway by the King of Denmark, made a descent upon England, but was repulsed by Alfred. He was subsequently, however, more fortunate in a similar attempt upon Normandy. Invading that country in 870, he achieved its complete conquest in 912, and was invested with the Ducal dignity. He m. Gilbette, dau. of Charles the Simple, King of France, and had two sons. From the elder, William, descended the Conqueror, and from Robert, the younger, created Earl of Corbeil, sprang two brothers, Robert Fitzhamon, who reduced Glamorganshire, (he left an only dau., Mabel, the wife of Robert de Courcil, natural son to Henry I.,) and

Richard, sumamed De Granville, from one of his lordships, who came into England with Duke William, and fought at Hastings. This Richard, who, as heir male, inherited the Norman honours and estates, was Earl of Corbeil, and Baron of Thorigny and Granville. He likewise possessed the castle of Neath, in Glamorganshire. He m. Constance, only dau. of Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckinghamshire and Longueville, and at his decease, in journeying to the Holy Land, left a son and successor,
Richard Granville...

Archaeologia Cambrensis
by W. Pickering
pg xxiii-xxiv

Richard de Granville, founder of Neath Abbey, seems to have been a younger brother of Robert Fitzhamon, and therefore a son of Hamo Dentatus, who is said to have been lord of Granville in Normandy. Although Richard is reputed to have taken part in the conquest of England, his name does not occur in Domesday, which it would have done had he then possessed Bideford, a manor certainly held by him in the next reign. He seems to have taken part with his brother in the conquest of Glamorgan, and to have had for his share the most exposed, and therefore most honourable, part of that seigniory, being the lands upon the Nedd and the Crwmllyn, which then formed its western frontier. He probably found some sort of place of defence existing in this lordship, as the charter implies an old castle, which is generally said to have stood west of the Nedd. He or his successors built the new castle on the east bank of the river, where the gatehouse and ruins of a still later building now remain.

The name of Sir Richard's first wife, Constance, is probably preserved in Constance Cross, a boundary referred to in the charters. She left him childless, and at her solicitation he is supposed, in 1129, to have founded the Abbey of Neath in their joint names. Among his Welsh retainers were two sons of Iestyn, whom he judiciously rewarded with lands on his west and north, or most exposed frontiers. His residence in Glamorgan seems to have been brief. On the foundation of the Abbey he retired to Bideford, having married as his second wife Isabel, daughter of Walter Giffard, the powerful Earl of Longueville and Buckingham, by whom he left a son, also Richard.

His descendants resided at Bideford, or at Kirkhampton in Cornwall, for about seven hundred years. Of them, fifteenth in descent, was Sir Richard Granville, whose father was lost in the Mary Rose, and who was Vice-Admiral of England in the great days of Elizabeth, and the discoverer, with Raleigh, of Virginia and Carolina, of which he published an account. He fell in a conflict between his single ship with the Spanish squadron. Not less celebrated was his grandson, Sir Bevill Granville, the support of Charles I in the west, and who fell on Lansdown in 1643, when his brother succeeded him as the King's general. His son, John Granville, also a brave soldier, was in 1661 created Earl of Bath, Viscount Granville of Lansdown, and Baron Granville of Kilkhampton and Bideford, with a warrant to use the ancient Norman titles of Corboil, Thorigny, and Granville.Their line closed with George Granville the poet, created Lord Lansdown in 1711, and who died, leaving daughters only, in 1734. They were a grand old race, bold and loyal, upon the remote twigs of whose wide-branching pedigree many less nobly descended havo been glad to perch.

Sir Richard died on a crusade. The armorial bearings attributed to him by later generations, and preserved on the tiles of his Abbey, and on the insignia of his borough of Aberavan, were, gules, three rests or.

Of the places named in the charter, Poncanum, Pulkanan, called by Meyric Pullignan, is doubtless Pwll-cynan, a well-known point on the Crymlyn brook, and in after centuries a point in the south-western boundary of the lordship of Neath Citra. Cynan or Cynon is far more likely than Crymlyn to have been the original name of the whole stream.

The chapel of the Castle of Neath, also described as of St. Giles, has been supposed to be the parish church, which is near the Castle, but which is dedicated to St. Thomas the Apostle. There are no traces of a chapel within the precinct of the present Castle, which, indeed, is but narrow. In 1290 the Abbey held"apud capellam" four carucates of land. The Castle of Neath, De Granville's fortress, was burned by Llewelyn in 1230, when probably the present structure was erected, for its remains answer to that period, and Neath Castle is mentioned as an important place in the reigns of Edward I, II, III, and Richard II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_de_Grenville

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