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Birth:          ABT 1000 
Death:          ABT 1047 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamon_Dentatus
Hamon Dentatus (d. circa 1047) was a Norman noble who held the lordship of 
Torigni-sur-Vire, Manche, in Normandy. Hamon Dentatus rebelled against Duke 
William, later William the Conqueror, and died in about 1047.[2] His Latin epithet 
Dentatus signifies "betoothed" or "toothy". Little is known about his life[3] other than 
his progeny.
Origins[edit]

The origins of Hamon Dentatus de Crevecoeur are unknown, although various 
suggestions have been made. Rev. Roger Granville in his 1895 work History of the 
Granville Family[4] stated without any source or rationale being given,[5] that he was 
a younger son of Mauger, jure uxoris Count of Corbeil, himself a younger son of 
Richard, Duke of Normandy, grandson of Rollo.[6] This pedigree appeared to Round 
to have been "hatched in the seventeenth century" (by the Granville family) 
"...wishing to exalt Hamon Dentatus"[5] (of whom they claimed to be heirs male and 
heirs to the supposed Norman "Earldom of Corbeil").

Titles held[edit]

He is supposed to have held the titles "Count/Earl of Corboile/Corboyle/Corbeuil", 
and "Lord of Thorigny and Granville", all in Normandy. These titles were confirmed 
retroactively by King Charles II in 1661 in his royal warrant which elevated to the 
peerage John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628-1701), of Stowe, Kilkhampton. The text 
of the warrant is as follows:[7]


"Whereas it appears unto us that our right trusty and right well-beloved cousin John, 
Earl of Bath, Our Grome of the Stole and First Gentleman of our Bedchamber, derives 
his title in a direct line as heir male unto Robert FitzHamon, Lord of Gloucester and 
Glamorgan in the reignes of King William the Conqueror, King William Rufus and King 
Henry the First, and who was the son and heir of the Lord Hamon dentatus, Earle of 
Corboile and Lord of Thorigny and Granville in Normandy, whereby he justly claims his 
descent from the younger son, as we ourself do from the eldest, of Rollo the first Duke 
of Normandy our com'on ancestor. In consideration whereof...we are graciously 
pleased to promise and declare that in case the Earldom of Glamorgan should at any 
time fall into the hands of the Crown during our reigne...we will not again confer the 
said earldom upon any other family but restore (sic) the same to that of the Granvilles 
by creating the said present Earl of Bath also Earl of Glamorgan...and we are further 
graciously pleased for the considerations aforesaid to allow and permit the said Earl of 
Bath to use also these other titles of honour as Earls of Corboile, Thorigny and 
Granville, as was formerly done by his ancestors and though the same has been 
discontinued of late by some of his said ancestors yet we do hereby give full power 
and authority to the said Earl of Bath, not only for himself and his posterity to use the 
same, but in case he shall hereafter erect in memory of his father or any other his 
former ancestors any monument or inscription concerning him or them, to use the name 
stile and dignity of Earle of Corboile, Thorigny and Granville, in as full and ample a 
manner as his said ancestors formerly and before Normandy was lost from the Crown of 
England, the said family of Granville being then also sufferers with the Crown and then 
also dispossessed for their loyalty out of their said inheritance of the said Earldom and 
Lordships within the said Dutchy of Normandy".

Progeny[edit]

He left progeny including:
Hamo Dapifer[8] (died circa 1100) (alias Haimo[9]) an Anglo-Norman royal official 
under both King William the Conqueror (1066-1087) and his son King William Rufus 
(1087-1100). He held the office, from which his epithet derives, known in Latin as 
dapifer and in French seneschal, in English "steward", as well as the office of Sheriff 
of Kent. He was the father of Robert FitzHamon (d.1107), the conqueror of Glamorgan.

Traditional pedigrees of the Grenville (post 1661 "Granville"[10]) family of Stowe in 
the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall and of Bideford in Devon, dating from the 17th 
century when the family was raised to the Earldom of Bath erroneously gave the father 
of Robert FitzHamon (the most famous of the Hamo family) as Hamon Dentatus and 
omitted any mention of his true father Hamo Dapifer. This was despite William of 
Malmesbury having described Hamo Dentatus as avus ("grandfather") to Robert 
FitzHamon.[11] The erroneous descent was given official status when recited in the 
royal warrant[12] signed in 1661 by King Charles II creating titles of nobility for John 
Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628-1701).

Kilkhampton depiction[edit]

An imaginary depiction of Hamon Dentatus, together with many other supposed and 
actual Granville family ancestors, is shown in a series of two stained glass windows 
erected in 1860 in the Granville Chapel in the Church of St James the Great, 
Kilkhampton, Cornwall, in which parish was situated the Grenville seat of Stowe. The 
window was erected by his supposed heirs male of the Grenville family (supposedly 
descended from Richard I de Grainville (d.post 1142)[13] of Neath Castle in 
Glamorgan, one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan, the supposed younger son of 
Hamo Dapifer and younger brother of Robert FitzHamon the conqueror of Glamorgan): 
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland KG (1786-
1861); John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath (1831–1896); George Granville 
Francis Egerton, 2nd Earl of Ellesmere (1823–1862); Lord John Thynne (1798-1881), 
DD, Canon of Westminster, a younger son of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath 
(1765-1837), KG.[14]


Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
DAPIFER Hamo (ABT 1030 - ABT 1100)

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