!Surnamed de Grenville from one of his Lordships. Accompanied his royal kinsman to England, fought at Hastings, and participated in the spoils of victory. He inherited also the Norman honours of his house, and was Earl of Corbeil and Baron of Thorigny and Granville. From him sprang the Granvilles of Stow in Cornwall, a race of men distinguished in each successive generation, but pre-eminently illustrious in the 16th and 17th centuries in the ranks of the peers and landed proprietors. [The Roll of Battle Abbey]