Gilbert de Gand 
Gilbert was born about 1048 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium. Gilbert's father was Ralph de Gand and his mother was Gisele de Luxembourg. His paternal grandparents were Adalbert de Gand and Ermengarde de Flanders; his maternal grandparents were Frederick and Countess of Gleiberg Irmentrude. He had a brother named Comte de Gand. He was the older of the two children. He died in 1094 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England.General Notes
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]
NOTE: Both Burke and Brian Tompsett agree that Baldwin, [6th] Count of Flanders, was Gilbert's father. However, I cannot find any reference to William the Conqueror having a sister named Maud - the only documented sister I find is Adelaide. Brian Tompsett shows Baldwin VI "the Peaceable," Count of Flanders and Artois, and Richilda, Countess of Hainault and Namur, as the parents of Gilbert, and that's what I'm sticking with.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0900 in Noordwijk-Binnen, Zuid, Holland, Netherlands
- b.~ 0938 in Egmond-Binnen, Noord Holland, Netherlands d.5 JUN 988 in Abdijkirk, Egmond-Binnen, Noord Holland, Netherlands
- b.~ 0903 in Egmond-Binnen, Noord Holland, Netherlands d. in Egmond-Binnen, Noord Holland, Netherlands
- b.~ 0963 in Gand, Flandres Orientale, Belgium d.18 SEP 993 in Egmond Aan Den Hoef, Noord, Holland, Netherlands
- b.0873 in Flanders, Nord, France d.27 MAR 964
- b.0934 in Flanders, Belgium d.10 APR 990
- b.0915 in Vermandois, Neustria d.10 OCT 960 in Bruges, Aquitaine
- b.~ 0983 in Gand, Flanders, Belgium
- b.~ 0881 in Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia d.0923
- b.0918 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.28 OCT 998
- b.~ 0890 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.> 0923
- b.~ 0963 in Bruxelles, Brabant, Belgium d.14 MAY 995
- b.~ 0900 in Nordgau Region, Medieval States d.18 DEC 973
- b.~ 0927 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.13 DEC 992
- b.~ 0887 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.14 May 1005
- b.~ 1022 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium d.> 1058 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
- b.~ 0940 in Flanders, France d.1 NOV 962
- b.~ 0961 in Flanders, France d.30 MAR 987
- b.~ 0948 in Saxony, Germany d.25 May 1008
- b.~ 0986 in Flandres, France d.30 May 1035 in Flandres, France
- b.0900 in Ivrea, Italy d.6 AUG 966 in Bamburg, Germany
- b.~ 0950 in Ivrea, Italy d.26 JAN 1002/03
- b.~ 0899 in Tuscany, Italy
- b.~ 1005 in Flanders, Belgium
- b.0918 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.28 OCT 998
- b.~ 0945 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1019
- b.~ 0927 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.13 DEC 992
- b.~ 0986 in Flandres, France d.21 FEB 1029/30 in Flandres, France
- b.~ 0925 in Kinzig, Hessen, Germany d.0992
- b.~ 0948 in Gleiberg, Gremany
- b.~ 0925 in Avalgau, Germany
- b.~ 1048 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium d.1094 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 0849 in Provence, France d.0918
- b.~ 0881 in Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia d.0923
- b.~ 0873 in Provence, France
- b.0918 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.28 OCT 998
- b.~ 0863 in Provence, France d.5 AUG 882 in St. Denis, France
- b.~ 0890 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.> 0923
- b.0870
- b.~ 0945 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1019
- b.~ 0862 in Nordgau Region, Medieval State d.0940
- b.~ 0900 in Nordgau Region, Medieval States d.18 DEC 973
- b.~ 0862
- b.~ 0927 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.13 DEC 992
- b.~ 0881 in Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia d.0923
- b.~ 0887 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.14 May 1005
- b.~ 0890 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.> 0923
- b.~ 1018 in Flanders, Belgium d.> 1058 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
- b.~ 0865 in Lorraine, France d.29 JUN 910
- b.~ 0887 in Schwaben, Bavaria d.2 DEC 949
- b.~ 0870 in Saxony, Germany
- b.~ 0925 in Kinzig, Hessen, Germany d.0992
- b.0840 in Peronne, Somme, Picardie, France d.0902 in Murdered
- b.~ 0885 in Vermandois, Austrasia d.12 DEC 949
- b.~ 0850
- b.~ 0948 in Gleiberg, Gremany
- b.~ 0888 in Avalgau, Germany
- b.~ 0925 in Avalgau, Germany
- b.~ 0865
- b.~ 0895 d.~ 0995
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Gilbert and Alice were married in a religious ceremony about 1069 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. They had seven sons and five daughters, named Henry, Ralph, Walter, Geoffrey, Robert, Gilbert, Hugh IV, Felia, Emma, Matilda, Alice and Agnes.
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Children
Hugh IV de Gaunt
Hugh IV was born about 1090 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. He died about 1124.
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