General Notes

GERARD DE FURNIVAL,(*) with King Richard I at the siege of Acon in the Holy Land, had GERARD DE FURNIVAL, son and heir, who married Maud, daughter and heir of William de Lovetot (ped. 121), a great baron in Nottinghamshire, who had livery of her lands 5 John; died at Jerusalem 3 Henry III

Girard de Furnival, who married Maud, daughter and heiress of William de Luvetot, a powerful Nottinghamshire baron, and had livery of her lands in the 5th year of King John, 1204. This feudal lord, being one of the barons who adhered to King John, was included in the commission to treat, on the part of the monarch, with Robert de Roos and other insurrectionary lords, and was appointed by the King to reside at Bolsover Castle, County Derby, for the better preservation of the peace in those parts. He died at Jerusalem, in the 3rd of Henry III, 1219, leaving three sons, Thomas, Gerard, and William.