Hamon Dentatus

"Hamon Dentatus, Earl of Corboyle" (d.1047). Detail from 1860 imaginary depiction in 1st Grenville Window (1860) in south wall of Grenville Chapel, Church of St James the Great, Kilkhampton, Cornwall. His shield shows attributed arms[1] of Azure, a lion rampant or impaling Argent, an eagle with two heads sable

Hamon Dentatus, also known as Haimon de Creully, and in France called "Sieur de Thorigny, de Bersy, and et de Creully" [2](d. 1047) was a Norman noble who held the lordship of Torigni-sur-Vire, Manche, in Normandy, and was the 1st Baron of Creully.[3] His Latin epithet Dentatus signifies "betoothed" or "toothy", as he was born with teeth (a condition called natal teeth)[4]. Other names he was known by include Han-a-dens (in the Roman de Rou)[5], Haimonem agnomine Dentatus[6], and Hamun in the "Cronique des Ducs de Normandie"[7]. Little is known about his origins or life[8] other than his progeny.

Hamon Dentatus rebelled against Duke William, later William the Conqueror, and died in 1047 at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes.[9][10] During the battle Haimo of Creully unhorsed King Henry, but was killed before he could injure him.[11] Other references say that Hamon "led the first line of 6,000 men, and much distinguished himself by fighting hand to hand with the King of France, by whose attendants he was slain"[12] and "in admiration of his valour, honourably buried at the King's command".[13]

Progeny

He left progeny including:

Grenville legend

By the 17th century, the Grenville/Granville family of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall and of Bideford in Devon would develop pedigrees claimig descent from a supposed brother of Robert Fitzhamon, who was then made son of Hamon Dentatus. This was despite William of Malmesbury having described Hamo Dentatus as avus ("grandfather") to Robert Fitzhamon.[16] Rev. Roger Granville in his 1895 work History of the Granville Family[17] stated without any source or rationale being given,[18] that Hamon was a younger son of Mauger, jure uxoris Count of Corbeil, himself a younger son of Richard, Duke of Normandy, grandson of Rollo.[19] This pedigree appeared to Round to have been "hatched in the seventeenth century" (by the Granville family) "...wishing to exalt Hamon Dentatus."[18] The erroneous descent was given official status when recited in the royal warrant[20] signed in 1661 by King Charles II creating titles of nobility for John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628-1701). 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.

Sources

  • Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166: Domesday Book. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-722-X.
  • Barlow, Frank (1983). William Rufus. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-04936-5.
  • Hollister, C. Warren; Frost, Amanda Clark (ed.) (2001). Henry I. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-08858-2.

References

Collins, Arthur, "A Supplement to the Four Volumes of the Peerage of England", Volume 1, (W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Wotton, R. Manby, and H.S. Cox, and E. Withers, London, 1750) Clark, George Thomas, "The Land of Morgan, Being a Contribution Towards the History of the Lordship of Glamorgan", (Whiting & Co., Lim., London, 1883) Pezet, M., "Les Barons de Creully: Etudes Historiques", (St.-Ange Duvant, for La Societe Academique, Bayeux, 1854) William of Poitiers, "Gesta Guillelmi Ducis Normannorum", (written between 1071-1077) Giles, J.A., "William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum, Chronicles of the Kings of England" (Bell & Daldy, London, 1866)

  1. ↑ The heraldic era did not commence until about 1200
  2. ↑ George Thomas Clark, "The Land of Morgan, Being a Contribution Towards the History of the Lordship of Glamorgan", (Whiting & Co., Lim., London, 1883)
  3. ↑ M. Pezet, "Les Barons de Creully: Etudes Historiques", (St.-Ange Duvant, for La Societe Academique, Bayeux, 1854)
  4. ↑ Arthur Collins, "A Supplement to the Four Volumes of the Peerage of England", Volume 1, (W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Wotton, R. Manby, and H.S. Cox, and E. Withers, London, 1750)
  5. ↑ George Thomas Clark, "The Land of Morgan, Being a Contribution Towards the History of the Lordship of Glamorgan", (Whiting & Co., Lim., London, 1883)
  6. ↑ William of Poitiers, "Gesta Guillelmi Ducis Normannorum", (Between 1071-1077)
  7. ↑ George Thomas Clark, "The Land of Morgan, Being a Contribution Towards the History of the Lordship of Glamorgan", (Whiting & Co., Lim., London, 1883)
  8. ↑ Round, p.155: "Hamon Dentatus of whom hardly anything is known"
  9. ↑ Keats-Rohan Domesday People p. 242
  10. ↑ George Thomas Clark, "The Land of Morgan, Being a Contribution Towards the History of the Lordship of Glamorgan", (Whiting & Co., Lim., London, 1883)
  11. ↑ David C. Douglas, William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England, (University of California Press, 1964), 50.
  12. ↑ George Thomas Clark, "The Land of Morgan, Being a Contribution Towards the History of the Lordship of Glamorgan", (Whiting & Co., Lim., London, 1883)
  13. ↑ Giles, J.A., "William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum, Chronicles of the Kings of England" (Bell & Daldy, London, 1866)
  14. ↑ Hollister Henry I pp. 363-364
  15. ↑ Barlow William Rufus pp. 188-189
  16. ↑ Round, p.156
  17. ↑ Granville, Roger, History of the Granville Family, p.'
  18. 1 2 Round, p.155
  19. ↑ Round, p.154
  20. ↑ Recited in Round, p.140
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