ID: I18188
Name: *Walter DE GAUNT
Sex: M
Birth: 1079 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
Death: 1139
Note:
Walter de Gant, 2nd son, succeeded his father and was a person of great valour and piety, who at an advanced age, commanded a brave regiment of Flemings and Normans in the celebrated conflict with the Scots at Northallerton in Yorkshire, known in history as the Battle of the Standard, "Where," says Dugdale, "by his eloquent and prudent conduct, the whole army received such encouragement that the Scots were utterly vanquished." He married Maud, daughter of Stephen, Earl of Brittany, and had Gilbert, Robert, Geoffrey, Alice, Matilda and Agnes, who married William de Mohun.
(Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 639)


Father: Gilbert DE GAUNT b: ABT 1048 in Alost, Flanders, Belgium
Mother: *Alice DE MONTFORT b: ABT 1050 in Montfort-Sur-, Risle, France

Marriage 1 *Maud of BRITTANY b: 1090 in Brittany, France
Children
Matilda DE GAUNT
Agnes DE GAUNT b: 1114 in Axholme, Lincoln, England
*Alice DE GAUNT b: 1120 in Axholme, Lincoln, England
Robert DE GAUNT b: 1122 in Axholme, Lincoln, England
Gilbert DE GANT b: ABT 1126 in Folkingham, Lincoln, England
Geoffrey DE GAUNT b: ABT 1126 in Folkingham, Lincoln, England