Gilbert de Gaunt

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Alost, Flanders, Belgium

Lord of Alost Ralph de Gant I

Gisele de Luxembourg

Adalbert de Gant

Count Frederic I Luxembourg

Ermentrude of Gleiburg

Badouin

Isabel

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Baron of Folkingham
Gilbert de Gant, 1st cousin to William Rufus and Henry I. This Gilbert de Gant, son of Baldwin of Flanders, accompanied his uncle, William the Conqueror, into England and participated in the triumph at Hastings, obtained a grant of the lands of the Danish proprietor, named Tour, with numerous lordships. Gilbert happened to be at York anno 1069 and had a narrow escape when the Danes, in great force, on behalf of Edgar the Aetheling (Prince of the Saxons and brother of Margaret, wife of Malcolm, King of Scotland), entered the mouth of the Humber, and marching on that city committed lamentable destruction by fire and sword, there being more than 3,000 Normans slain. He married Alice de Montfort, daughter of Hugh de Montfort, son of Hugh, son of Thurstan de Bastenburg, son of Aumaurie de Montfort, son of Robert I, King of France. He died in the reign of William Rufus (1087-1100). He had Hugh, who assumed the name of de Montfort, and inherited all the possessions of his grandfather, Montfort. Walter, his successor, Robert, Lord Chancellor of England anno 1153, and Emma, married to Alan, Lord Percy.
(Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 639)

GILBERT DE GANT, the first of this surname, a younger son, Baron de Folkingham, who received the lands of Tour, a Dane; had several lordships in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire, Huntingdonshire, Northon, Rutlandshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, in the last of which, at Folkingham, he made his principal seat and head of his barony; married Alice, daughter and heiress of Hugh de Montfort.
(Fenwick Allied Ancestry, page 56)

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Adalbert de Gant
  - b.~  1004 in Gand, Flanders, Belgium
  
  Lord of Alost Ralph de Gant I
  - b.~  1009 in Flanders, Belgium d.~  1058
  
  Gilbert de Gaunt
  - b.~  1048 in Alost, Flanders, Belgium d.1094
  
  Richinius de Ardennes
  - b.0895 in Verdun, France d.0923
  
  Siegfried de Luxembourg II
  - b.0922 in Luxembourg d.15 Aug 0998
  
  Count Eberhard of Friuli ^*
  - b.0865 d.0927
  
  Kunigunde Cunegonde de France
  - b.~  0890 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.>  0927
  
  Ermentrude France ^*
  - b.0875
  
  Count Frederic I Luxembourg
  - b.0965 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1009
  
  Hugo III von Hohenburg ^*
  - b.0870 d.0940
  
  Count Eberhard von Hohenburg IV
  - b.0900 d.18 Dec 0972
  
  Hildegarde de Ferrette
  - b.0876
  
  Edith Hedwig de Longwy
  - b.0934 d.13 Dec 0992
  
  Count Wigerich  de Treves von Aachen ^*
  - b.0889 in Provins, Champagne-Ardennes, France d.0923 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
  
  Luitgarde de Treves
  - b.0915 d.0974
  
  Kunigunde Cunegonde de France ^*
  - b.~  0890 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.>  0927
  
  Gisele de Luxembourg
  - b.~  1018 in Chateau de Salm, Luxembourg, Belgium d.1058 in Chapel of St. Lawrence, Ghent
  
  Gebhard von Lahngau
  - b.0866 d.22 Jun 0910
  
  Count Otto von der Wetterau IV
  - b.0880 in Souabe d.12 Dec 0949
  
  Oda
  
  Herbert in the Moselgau
  - b.0925 d.0992
  
  Count de Vermandois Herbert Senlis de Vermandois I ^*
  - b.0848 in Vermandois, Neustria d.0900
  
  Cunigunde de Vermandois
  - b.0892 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.12 Dec 0949
  
  Beatrice Bertha de Morvois ^*
  - b.0862
  
  Ermentrude of Gleiburg
  - b.0948 in Gleiberg, Germany
  
  Ermentrude von Avalgau of Saxony
  - b.0948 in Gleiberg, Germany
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

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