Baron Gerald de Gournay 
Gerald was born in 1066 in Normandy, France. Gerald's father was Hugh II de Gournay and his mother was Basilia de Flaitel. His paternal grandfather was Hughes de Gournay; his maternal grandparents were Gerard deFlaitel and Herleve D'Evreux. He had a brother named Gerard. He was the younger of the two children. He had two half-brothers named Richard and Richard.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.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0953 d.1039
- b.0982
- b.1005
- b.1028 d.1110
- b.1066 in Normandy, France
- b.1000
- b.1024 d.1107
- b.~ 0900 in Of, , Normandie, Neustria d.17 Dec 0942 in , , , France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Fecamp,Normandy,France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp,Normandy,France
- b.~ 0911 in ,,Bretagne d.< 0940
- b.~ 0965 in Evreux,Normandy,France d.1037
- b.0910 in Blauzahan,Germany d.01 Nov 0986 in Jomsborg,Denmark
- b.~ 0936 in Normandie d.1031 in France
- b.0919 in denmark d.1000
- b.1003 in Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.0968 in Normandy,France d.Bet. 990 - 1062
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Children
Hugh deGournay
Hugh was born in 1110 in Gournay, France. He died at the age of 70 in 1180 in Holy Lands.
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