ID: I18369
Name: *Gerald DE GOURNAY
Sex: M
Birth: 1062 in Aubigny, Calvados, Normandie, France
Note:
Baron of Yarmouth
Gerard de Gournay, Baron of Yarmouth, was a grand Seigncur. He married Edith, daughter of William, Earl of Varenne in France, and 1st Earl of Warren and Surrey, in England, so created by William, the Conqueror, with whom he came to England in 1066. They had five children: Hugues III, Gautier, Anseau, Gonnor and Gundred. He went on the First Crusade and died on the way home on the 8th of May, 1097. Edith, who had accompanied him, was taken back to Normandy by Drogon, a Chevallier and friend of Gerard, who after married her, and they had a son. Drogon had rich manoirs of his own, but Henry I, of England, under pretense of danger to Gerard's children, put senechals in all their manoirs, took their fortresses, and took Gerard's children to himself. Of the above children their daughter, Gundred de Gournay, married Nigel d'Albini, and Gonner.
(Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 469)


Father: *Hugh II DE GOURNAI b: 1026 in Gournay-en-Bray, Seine-Maritime, France
Mother: Balille DE FLAITEL b: 1030

Marriage 1 *Edith DE WARREN b: ABT 1060 in Sussex, England
Children
*Gonnor DE GOURNAY b: ABT 1080 in Gournay, Normandy, France
*Gundreda DE GOURNAY b: 1095 in Aubigny, Calvados, Normandie, France