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Name: Gilbert De GANT, Baron Of Folkingham
Sex: M
Birth: 3 in Ghent, Flanders ^b
Death: Abt 1095 ^d
Burial: Bardney Abbey, Yorkshire ^u

Parents:

Father:
Ralph De GANT, Lord Of Aalst Death: Before 1056

Mother:

Gisele Of Luxembourg Death: 21 May After 1058

Family:
Marriage:

Children:

Gilbert De GANT Birth: 1 Death: Before 1095
Robert De GANT Birth: 2 Death: Abt 1157
Walter De GAUNT, Baron Of Folkingham Death: 1139 in Bardney Abbey
Hugh De MONTFORT, Baron Of Montfort Death: After 1123
Filia GANT
Emma De GANT Death: After 1140
Henry De GANT
Ralph De GANT

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Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: second son [Ref: CP VII p672(b)]; third son [Ref: ES VIII #22A, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p59],
place:: [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p210],
parents:: [Ref: Brandenburg 1995 p7, ES VIII #22A, Keats-Rohan DP p210, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p59, Sherman Ghent p26, Weis AR7 #143],
father:: [Ref: CP VII p672(b)]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

parents:: Baldwin VI Count of Flanders (#11411) & Richilda heiress of Hainault (#11412) [Ref: Watney WALLOP #433]; Baldwin VI De MONS (#11411) & Richilde of HAINAULT (#11412) [Ref: Burke DormantPeerages p423, Wurts MCBarons p426],
father:: Baldwin Count of Flanders (#11411) [Ref: Burke Peerage p1510]

Sources for death Information

date:: (1095) [Ref: ES III.4 #698]; abt 1094 [Ref: Watney WALLOP #433, Watney WALLOP #694]; abt 1095 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p471, Keats-Rohan DD p472, Keats-Rohan DP p210, Raymond Phair SGM 7/12/1999, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p59, Sanders Baronies p46, Weis AR7 #143]; after 1058 [Ref: Brandenburg 1995 p7]; occ 1075 [Ref: ES VIII #22A]

Sources for burial Information

place:: [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p59, Weis AR7 #143]

Sources with Information about marriage to Alice De MONTFORT

names:: [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p265]; Gilbert de GANT & dau Hugh de MONTFORT [Ref: Dugdale Baronage p407],
child:: [Ref: CP VII p672(b), CP X p439, Dugdale Baronage p407, Farrer EYC v2p433, Foss Judges p286, Keats-Rohan DD p471, Keats-Rohan DD p596, Keats-Rohan DP p210, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p59, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p344, Sherman Ghent p26, Watney WALLOP #433, Watney WALLOP #694, Weis AR7 #143]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

child:: Agnes, wife of William Fitznigel de Halton [Ref: Wurts MCBarons p426]; daughter (#18198) wife of Simon Earl of Huntingdon [Ref: Dugdale Baronage p407]

Research Notes:
of Folkingham, Claxby, Croft, Holme Spinney, Well, and Withern, Lincolnshire, Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, Stanton (in Fen Stanton), Huntingdonshire, Rufford and Eakring, Nottinghamshire, Burley and Empingham, Rutland, Hunmanby, Yorkshire, etc [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p59]
of Folkingham, Lincolnshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p344]

Domeday lord of Folkingham [Ref: Sanders Baronies p46]

most nobly born of the English Flemings, distantly related to the queen [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p210]

feudal Baron of Folkingham, co. Lincoln; officer in the army of William the Conqueror [Ref: Wurts MCBarons p186]

descendant of Charlemagne, through his mother. The paternal grandfather of Gilbert's mother was the son of Wigrich, a nobleman from the region of the central Moselle river, and his wife Cunegonde. Cunegonde was the granddaughter of Louis II the Stammerer, King of West Francia and great-grandson of Charlemagne. Thus Gilbert was ninth generation of descent from the first emperor of the medieval West. (in footnote: line from Charlemagne to Gilbert: Charlemagne, Louis I the Pious, Charles II the Bald, Louis II the Stammerer, Ermentrude, Cunegonde, Siegfried I, Frederick, Gisele, Gilbert) [Ref: Sherman Ghent p35]

1066: prob arrived in England [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p59, Weis AR7 #143]

1068: commander in York, taken prisoner there by the Danes in 1069 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p59, Weis AR7 #143]

1069: he and William Malet unsuccessfully defended York castle against the Danish invasion and local rebellion [Ref: Raymond Phair SGM 7/12/1999]

1075: a transaction in the Watten abbey chronicle witnessed by Gilbert, described as having come from England and as the brother of Baldwin of Ghent [Ref: Raymond Phair SGM 7/12/1999]

1086: tenant-in-chief and one of the largest landholders in co. Lincoln, Folkingham being the head of his barony [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p59, Weis AR7 #143]

held Whichford in Domesday; his son Walter founded a priory of Augustinian canons at Bridlington, in Yorkshire, and William de Mohun and Agnes his wife gave the church of Whichford to that priory in the reign of Henry the First [Ref: Lyte Dunster v1p8]

refounded the monastery of Bardney in Lincolnshire as a cell of Sainte-Foi de Conques [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p210]

Sherman wondered if the erroneous ancestry for Gilbert given in "Monasticon Anglicanum" (5:491) may have arisen when the unknown author, writing after 1307, found in an unknown source that Gilbert was described as 'nepos' of William the Conqueror and assumed it to mean 'nephew', although in this case its less frequent meaning of 'kinsman' was intended. Gilbert was the first cousin once removed of William's wife, if the assumption about Gisele's identity is correct. [Ref: Raymond Phair SGM 7/12/1999]

The identification of Gilbert's father as Ralph of Alost first appeared in A. Duchesne, "Histoire genealogique des maisons ... de Gand, ...", 1631. Among the many later writers who have given it were the following:
1. L.V.J.A. Vanderkindere, "Histoire de la formation territoriale des principautes belges au moyen age", vol.1 (1899).
2. W. Farrer, "Early Yorkshire Charters" (EYC), 2:432 (1915).
3. "Complete Peerage" (CP), 7:672n (1929).
4. M. Rubincam, Genealogists' magazine, 9:1-7 (1940).
5. F.M. Stenton, "Anglo-Saxon England", 1st ed., 1941, p.621; 3rd ed., 1971, p.629 (no source). D.C. Douglas, "William the Conqueror", 1964, p.267, only cited Stenton for it.
6. G.A. Moriarty, The American Genealogist 34:39-40 (1958).
7. R.M. Sherman, Nottingham Medieval Studies 22:23-35 (1978). (Sherman did not use Farrer, Rubincam, and Moriarty. See his paper for references to additional works discussing this family.) [Ref: Raymond Phair SGM 7/12/1999]

Pedigree of Gilbert De GANT, Baron Of Folkingham
          /-----Ralph De GANT
/-----Ralph De GANT, Lord Of Aalst
Gilbert De GANT, Baron Of Folkingham
|                                    /-----(Unk)
|                           /-----Wigeric Count in Bidgau
|                  /-----Siegfried Count Of Luxemburg
|                 |         \-----Cunegunde
|                 |                 |                           /-----Louis I The Fair Emperor Of The West
|                 |                 |                  /-----Charles II The Bald King Of Franks, Emperor
|                 |                 |                 |         \-----Judith Of Bavaria
|                 |                 |         /-----Louis II The Stammerer King Of France
|                 |                 |        |        |         /-----Eudes Count Of Orleans
|                 |                 |        |         \-----Ermentrude Of Orleans
|                 |                 |        |                  \-----Engeltrude
|                 |                  \-----Ermentrude Of France
|                 |                          |                  /-----Wulfhard
|                 |                          |         /-----Adalhard Count Of Paris
|                 |                          |        |         \-----Susanna
|                 |                           \-----Adelaide
|         /-----Frederick I Count Of Luxemburg
|        |        |                           /-----Eberhard III Count In Nordgau
|        |        |                  /-----Hugh I Count In Abracian Nordgau
|        |        |         /-----Ebergard Count In The Nordgau, Count Of Alsace
|        |        |        |         \-----Hildegarde
|        |         \-----Hedwig Of Nordgau
|        |                  \-----Bertha
\-----Gisele Of Luxembourg
         |                                                      /-----Eudes Count Of Orleans
         |                                             /-----Gebhard Count In The Nieder-Lahngau
         |                                            |         \-----Engeltrude
         |                                    /-----Eudes Count In Lahngau
         |                                   |        |         /-----Hunroch Count of Ternois
         |                                   |         \-----(Unk Dau) Of Friuli
         |                                   |                  \-----Engeltron Of Paris
         |                           /-----Gebhard Duke Of Lorraine
         |                          |        |                  /-----Guelph Count Of Andech And Bavaria
         |                          |        |         /-----Conrad I Of Burgandy, Count Of Auxerra
         |                          |        |        |         \-----Edith (Heilwig) Of Saxony, Abbess Of Chelles
         |                          |         \-----Judith
         |                          |                 |         /-----Hugh le Mefiant Count Of Tours
         |                          |                  \-----Aelis Of Tours And Alsace
         |                          |                           \-----Ava
         |                  /-----Udo Count In The Wetterau
         |                 |         \-----Ita
         |         /-----Herbert I Count In The Kinziggau
         |        |        |                                    /-----Karlman (Pepin) King Of Italy And Bavaria
         |        |        |                           /-----Bernard King Of Italy
         |        |        |                          |         \-----Therres
         |        |        |                  /-----Pepin Count Of Senlis, Peronne, & St. Quentin
         |        |        |                 |        |         /-----Caribert
         |        |        |                 |         \-----Cunigunde
         |        |        |         /-----Herbert I Count Of Vermandois
         |        |        |        |        |                  /-----Niebelung III Count Of Burgundy
         |        |        |        |        |         /-----Theoderic Count Of Vermandois
         |        |        |        |         \-----(Unk Dau) Of Vermandois
         |        |         \-----Cunegundis Of Vermandois
         |        |                 |         /-----Guerra I Count Of Morvois
         |        |                  \-----Beatrice Of Morvois
         |        |                           \-----Eve Of Roussillon
          \-----Ermentrude Of Kinziggau
                  |                                             /-----Gebhard Count In The Nieder-Lahngau
                  |                                    /-----Eudes Count In Lahngau
                  |                                   |         \-----(Unk Dau) Of Friuli
                  |                           /-----Eberhard I Count In Ortenau
                  |                          |        |         /-----Conrad I Of Burgandy, Count Of Auxerra
                  |                          |         \-----Judith
                  |                          |                  \-----Aelis Of Tours And Alsace
                  |                  /-----Eberhard II Count In Bonngau
                  |                 |        |         /-----Walaho
                  |                 |         \-----Wiltrud
                  |                 |                 |         /-----Rupert IV The Strong Count Of Tours
                  |                 |                  \-----(Unk Dau)
                  |                 |                           \-----Aelis Of Tours And Alsace
                  |         /-----Megingoz Count Of The Avalgau
                  |        |         \-----Gisela
                   \-----Irmentrude
                           |                           /-----(Unk)
                           |                  /-----Gerhard Count In Metzgau
                           |         /-----Godfrey Duke Of Lorraine, Count Palatine
                           |        |        |                  /-----Ludolph Duke Of Saxony
                           |        |        |         /-----Otto The Illustrious Duke Of Saxony
                           |        |        |        |         \-----Oda
                           |        |         \-----Udo Of Saxony
                           |        |                 |         /-----Heinrich Of Thuringia, King Of Austriasia
                           |        |                  \-----Hedwige/Hadui/Haduich
                           |        |                           \-----Ingeltrud Of Friuli
                            \-----Gerberga
                                    |                           /-----Charles II The Bald King Of Franks, Emperor
                                    |                  /-----Louis II The Stammerer King Of France
                                    |                 |         \-----Ermentrude Of Orleans
                                    |         /-----Charles III The Simple King Of Franks
                                    |        |        |         /-----Adalhard Count Of Paris
                                    |        |         \-----Adelaide
                                     \-----Ermentrude Of France
                                             |                  /-----(Unk)
                                             |         /-----Dietrich Count in Westfalen
                                             |        |         \-----Matilda
                                              \-----Frederuna
                                                       \-----Ragenhilda

Descendants of Gilbert De GANT, Baron Of Folkingham

1. Gilbert De GANT, Baron Of Folkingham m. Alice De MONTFORT

m. Alice De MONTFORT father: Hugh De Montfort, Baron Of Haughley mother: Alice Of Beaufour

2 Gilbert De GANT

3 Robert De GANT

4+ Walter De GAUNT, Baron Of Folkingham m. Maud Of Brittany

5+ Hugh De MONTFORT, Baron Of Montfort m. Adeline De BEAUMONT

6+ Filia GANT m. Ives De Grantmesnil, Baron Of Leicester

7+ Emma De GANT m. Alan De PERCY, Baron Of Topcliffe

8 Henry De GANT

9 Ralph De GANT

2nd generation

4. Walter De GAUNT, Baron Of Folkingham m. Maud Of Brittany