Gilbert de Gaunt , French Earl of Lincoln 
Gilbert de was born before 1180 in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. Gilbert de's father was Robert de Gand , Lord of Folkingham and his mother was Gunnor d' Aubigny. His paternal grandfather was Walter de Walter de , Lord of Folkingham/, Sir/Gand; his maternal grandparents were Ralph d' Aubigny and Sibyl de Valognes. He had two half-brothers named Nicholas de and William de.General Notes
Supported barons against King John. constituted Earl of Lincoln by King Louis of France.
Gilbert de Gant, then in minority at the death of his father about 1193, and in ward to William de Stutevill. In the last year of King John's reign [1216], this Gilbert adhering to the barons, was constituted Earl of Lincoln, by Lewis of France, at that time in London, and at the head of the baronial party, and was despatched into Nottinghamshire to oppose the royalists. Shortly after which, assisted by Robert de Ropesle, he reduced the city of Lincoln, but at the subsequent battle, the baronial force being totally broken, he was taken prisoner and never after assumed the title of Earl of Lincoln, which dignity was then conferred upon Randall de Meschines, surnamed Blundaville, Earl of Chester. This ex-earl d. in 1241, leaving issue, Gilbert and Julian. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 227, Gant, Earls of Lincoln]
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- b.~ 1048 in Ghent, Flanders now Belgium d.~ 1095 in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1080 in Fordington, Lincolnshire, England d.1139
- b.1050 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1122 in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.1191 in Irnham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
- b.< 1180 in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.BEF 22 JAN 1241/42
- b.~ 1120 in Belvoir, Leicestershire, England d.1191 in Acre, Palestine
- b.~ 1160 in Belvoir, Leicestershire, England d.> 1193
- b.~ 1053 in Valognes, Contentin, France d.~ 1087 in of Essex & Hertfordshire, England
- b.~ 1080 in Valognes, Contentin, France
- b.~ 1060 in Ryes near Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1106 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England d.< 1175
- b.1080 in England
- b.~ 1130 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England d.~ 1218
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