Gilbert De Gant 
Gilbert was born about 1048 in Folkingham, Lincoln, England. Gilbert's father was I Rodolph and his mother was Gisèle De Luxembourg. His paternal grandparents were Burggraaf Van Ghent Adalbert and Ermengaerd Van Flanders; his maternal grandparents were I Frédéric and Irmintrud Von Gleiburg. He was an only child. He died in 1095 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. He was buried about 1095 in Bardney, Lincoln, England.General Notes
1st Earl of Lincoln, feudal Baron of Folkingham Gilbert de Gant, son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, by Maud, sister of William the Conqueror, accompanied his uncle into England and, participating in the triumph of Hastings, obtained a grant of the lands of a Danish proprietor named Tour, with numerous other lordships. This Gilbert happened to be at York, anno 1069, and had a narrow escape when the Danes in great force, on behalf of Edgar Etheling, entered the mouth of the Humber and, marching upon that city, committed lamentable destruction by fire and sword, there being more than 3,000 Normans slain. Like most of the great lords of his time, Gilbert de Gant disgorged to the church a part of the spoil which he had seized, and amongst other acts of piety restored Bardney Abbey, co. Lincoln, which had been utterly destroyed many years before by the Pagan Danes, Inquar and Hubba. He m, Alice, dau. of Hugh de Montfort, and had issue, Hugh, who assumed the name Montfort; Walter, his successor; Robert, Lord Chancellor of England, anno 1153; and Emma, m. to Alan, Lord Percy. This great feudal chief d. in the reign of William Rufus. [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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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0903
- d.5 Jun 988
- b.~ 0880
- b.~ 0963 in Ghent d.18 Sep 993
- b.Bet 885 and 890 d.27 Mar 964
- b.0934 d.10 Apr 990
- b.~ 0915 d.Bet 958 and 960
- d.1032
- d.15 Aug 988
- b.~ 0922 d.28 Oct 998
- b.~ 0963 d.14 May 1005
- b.~ 0915 d.18 Dec 966
- d.13 Dec 992
- d.14 May 1005
- d.> 1056
- b.~ 0940 in Flanders d.0962
- b.Dec 0961 d.30 Mar 987
- d.25 May 1008
- b.~ 0980 in Flanders
- b.~ 0900 d.6 Jul 966 in Bamberg, Geermany
- b.~ 0955 d.26 Jan 1001-1002
- b.~ 0900 in Arles, Aquitaine, France d.> 0966 in Bamberg, Geermany
- b.Bet 984 and 995
- b.~ 1048 in Folkingham, Lincoln, England d.1095 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 0890 d.0923
- d.15 Aug 988
- b.~ 0890 d.> 0923
- b.~ 0922 d.28 Oct 998
- b.~ 0965 d.06 Oct 1019
- d.0940
- b.~ 0915 d.18 Dec 966
- b.~ 0862
- d.13 Dec 992
- b.~ 0881 d.< 0919
- d.14 May 1005
- b.~ 0890 d.> 0923
- d. in Saint-Peter's Abbey, Ghent, Gelderland, Belgium
- d.29 Jun 910
- b.~ 0895 d.2 Dec 949
- b.0840 d.~ 0902
- b.~ 0895 d.> 0943
- b.~ 0862
- d.0998
- b.~ 0925
- d.~ 0995
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Children
Walter De Gant
Walter was born about 1087 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. He died in 1139 in Bardney, Lincolnshire, England.
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