General Notes

Gerard de Gournay, Baron of Yarmouth, was a grand Seigncur. He marriedEdith, daughter of William, Earl of Varenne in France, and 1st Earl ofWarren and Surrey, in England, so created by William, the Conqueror, withwhom he came to England in 1066. They had five children: Hugues III,Gautier, Anseau, Gonnor and Gundred. He went on the First Crusade anddied on the way home on the 8th of May, 1097. Edith, who had accompaniedhim, was taken back to Normandy by Drogon, a Chevallier and friend ofGerard, who after married her, and they had a son. Drogon had richmanoirs of his own, but Henry I, of England, under pretense of danger toGerard's children, put senechals in all their manoirs, took theirfortresses, and took Gerard's children to himself.