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]