Earl Gilbert de Gaunt of Lincoln 
Gilbert was born in 1180 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. Gilbert's father was Lord Robert de Gaunt of Folkingham and his mother is Gunner de Aubigny. His paternal grandfather was Walter de Gaunt of Lincoln and his paternal grandmother is Matilda de Bretagne; his maternal grandparents were Ralph de Aubigny I and Sibyl de Valognes. He was an only child. He died at the age of 61 in 1241.General Notes
French Earl of Lincoln
Gilbert was under age and in ward to William DE Stutesville whenhe succeeded his father in 1193. In the last of King John'sreign 1216, this gilbert adhering to the barons, was constitutedEarl of Lincoln by Louis of France, and head of the BaronialParty, and was despatched into Nottingham to oppode theRoyalist. At the subsequent battle the the Barional force wasbroken and he was take prisioner.
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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.~ 1004 in Gand, Flanders, Belgium
- b.ABT 1009/1022 in Gand, Flanders, Belgium d.> 1058
- b.~ 1005 in Flanders, Belgium
- b.~ 1048 in Alost, Flanders, Belgium d.1094
- b.ABT 0945/0965 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1019
- b.ABT 1009/1028 in Flanders, Belgium d.1058
- b.0948 in Gleiberg, Germany
- b.ABT 1087/1092 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England d.1139 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 0975 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France d.1037 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1020 in Montfort, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1000 in Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1050 in Montfort-Sur-, Risle, France
- b.~ 0984 in Beauffou, Normandy, France d.1081
- b.~ 1015 in Beauffou, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0984
- b.1122 in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.1191 in Irnham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
- b.0972 in Bretagne, Rennes, France d.1008 in Rome, Italy
- b.0999 in Penthievre, Morbihan, Bretagne, France d.7 Jan 1078/1079
- b.0977 in Bretagne, Rennes, France d.21 Feb 1033
- b.ABT 1064/1065 in Penthievre, Morbihan, Bretagne, France d.1135 in St Marys, York, Yorkshire, England
- b.ABT 0995/1010 in Corwall, England d.1058/1064
- b.1018/1025 in Cornouaille, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
- b.~ 1010 in Nantes, Brittany, France d.1064
- b.~ 1092 in Brittany, France
- b.ABT 1064/1072 in Brittany, France d.21 Feb 1133/1134 in Richmond upon Thames, Middlesex, England
- b.1180 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England d.1241
- b.< 0970 in Tosni, Eure, France d.1045 in Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
- b.1014/1025 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England d.04 Aug 1088 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 0970 in Bayeux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1085 in St Aubin d'Aubigne, Ille-et-Vilaine, St Malo, Bretagne, France d.< 1156 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 0990 in Plessis, Normandy, France d.1047 in a dungeon
- b.~ 1014 in Plessis, Normandy, France
- b.1120/1126 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England d.1191 in Acre, Palestine
- b.~ 1035 in Avranches, Normandy, France d.1071
- b.~ 1060 in Saveur, Normandy, France Or Norfolk Co., England d.15 Sep 1107 in Egersham, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1040 in St Saveur, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1090 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1030 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England d.Aug 1088
- b.~ 1064 in St Saveur, Normandy, France d.> 1135
- b.~ 1035 in Leicestershire, England d.< 1088
- b.1160 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1060 in Valognes, Contentin, France d.~ 1088
- b.~ 1080 in Valognes, Contentin, France
- b.~ 1060 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1106 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England d.< 1175
- b.1080 in England
- b.1129/1138 in South Petherton, Somerset, England d.> 1212
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They had a son named Gilbert.
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Children
Governor Gilbert de Gant of Scarborough Castle
Gilbert was born in 1205 in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. He died in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.
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