Gilbert de , Lord of Folkingham GANT
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by FrederickLewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr.,, 143-22
Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles MosleyEditor-in-Chief, 1999, 2118
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Gilbert de Gant, son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, by Maud, sister ofWilliam the Conqueror, accompanied his uncle into England and,participating in the triumph of Hastings, obtained a grant of the landsof a Danish proprietor named Tour, with numerous other lordships. ThisGilbert happened to be at York, anno 1069, and had a narrow escape whenthe Danes in great force, on behalf of Edgar Etheling, entered the mouthof the Humber and, marching upon that city, committed lamentabledestruction by fire and sword, there being more than 3,000 Normans slain.Like most of the great lords of his time, Gilbert de Gant disgorged tothe church a part of the spoil which he had seized, and amongst otheracts of piety restored Bardney Abbey, co. Lincoln, which had been utterlydestroyed many years before by the Pagan Danes, Inquar and Hubba. He m,Alice, dau. of Hugh de Montfort, and had issue, Hugh, who assumed thename Montfort; Walter, his successor; Robert, Lord Chancellor of England,anno 1153; and Emma, m. to Alan, Lord Percy. This great feudal chief d.in the reign of William Rufus. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant,Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p.227, Gant, Earls of Lincoln] NOTE: Both Burke and Brian Tompsett agree that Baldwin, [6th] Count ofFlanders, was Gilbert's father. However, I cannot find any reference toWilliam the Conqueror having a sister named Maud - the only documentedsister I find is Adelaide. Brian Tompsett shows Baldwin VI "thePeaceable," Count of Flanders and Artois, and Richilda, Countess ofHainault and Namur, as the parents of Gilbert, and that's what I'msticking with.
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by FrederickLewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr.,, 143-22
Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles MosleyEditor-in-Chief, 1999, 2118
GEDCOM File : ~AT1255.ged
Emma, daughter of Gilbert de Gant. [Burke's Peerage]
Hugh de Montfort, who, on account of his mother being so great anheiress, assumed the name of Montfort, inherited all the possessions ofhis grandfather and was called Hugh the fourth. This Hugh, having m.Adeline, dau. of Robert, Earl of Mellent, joined with Waleran, herbrother, and all those who endeavoured to advance William, son of RobertCurthose, against King Henry I in 1124, and entering Normandy for thatpurpose, he was made prisoner, with the said Waleran, and confined forthe fourteen years ensuing. The time of his death is not ascertained buthe left issue, Robert; Thurstan; Adeline, m. to William de Britolio; Ada,m. to Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester. He was s. by his elder son,Robert de Montfort. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited andExtinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, p. 377,Montfort, Barons Montfort]
Sir Walter de Lindissi or Lind(e)say (almost certainly 3rd son of Gilbertde Ghent) probably accompanied David, Earl of Huntingdon, subsequentlyKing David I, in his anglicising of the Lowlands in the early 12thcentury; he was witness 1116 to an inquisition concerning the see ofGlasgow. [Burke's Peerage]
He married Alice Countess de Montfort 1071 at Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England . Alice Countess de Montfort was born at Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France 1050 daughter of Hugh II Count de Montfort and Alice de Beauffou .
They were the parents of 6
children:
Felia de Gant
born Abt 1070.
Emma de Gant
born Abt 1075.
Hugh de , Sir Montfort
born Abt 1078.
Walter de , Sir Lindsay
born Abt 1080.
Walter de , Lord of Folkingham Gaunt
born 1087.
Agnes de Gant
born Abt 1092.
Gilbert de , Lord of Folkingham Gant died Abt 1095 at Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England .