Lord Gilbert de Gaunt of Flanders 
Gilbert was born in Alost, Flanders, Belgium. Gilbert's father was Seigneur Ralph de Gand I and his mother was Gisele de Luxembourg. His paternal grandparents are Adalbert de Gand and Ermengarde de Flanders; his maternal grandfather was Frederic I of Luxembourg and his maternal grandmother is Ermentrude of Gleiberg. He had two brothers and a sister, named Baudouin, Gilbert and Isabel. He died in 1095 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England.General Notes
Comte de Gand
Lord 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]
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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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.ABT 0900/0920 in Gand, Flanders, Belgium d.0983
- b.~ 0956 in Gand, Flanders, Belgium
- b.~ 0941 in Flandres d.29 Sep 0964
- b.~ 0984 in Gand, Flanders, Belgium
- b.0870 in Noordwijk-Binnen, Zuid Holland, Netherlands d.6 Oct 0929/0939
- b.~ 0961 in Zuid Holland, Netherland
- b.0939
- b.~ 1004 in Gand, Flanders, Belgium
- b.ABT 0879/0890 in Aachen, Rhineland, (Prussia) Germany d.0923
- b.~ 0915 d.26 Oct 0998
- b.0880/0886 d.0923
- b.~ 0987 in Cleves, Germany
- b.~ 0900 in Nordgau, Alsace, France d.18 Dec 0972/0973 in Germany
- b.0939 in Nordgau, Alsace, France
- b.ABT 0910/0915 in Vexin, France
- b.ABT 1009/1022 in Gand, Flanders, Belgium d.> 1058
- b.~ 0933 in Flandres, France d.01 Nov 0962
- b.0949/0961 in Flandres, France d.30 Mar 0987
- b.~ 0978 in Saxony, Germany d.25 May 1008
- b.0980 in Flandres, France d.30 May 1036/1039 in Flandres, France
- b.0900 d.06 Jul 0966 in Bamberg
- b.~ 0945 in Luxembourg d.26 Jan 1003 in Gent, Flanders
- b.~ 0924 in Tuscany, France d.> 0996 in Bamberg
- b.~ 1005 in Flanders, Belgium
- b.~ 0918 in Luxembourg d.28 Oct 0998
- b.ABT 0945/0965 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1019
- b.0939 in Nordgau, Alsace, France d.13 Dec 0992
- b.~ 0986 in Flandres, France d.21 Feb 1030 in Flandres, France
- b.0914/0925 in Kinzig, Hessen, Germany d.0992
- b.0948 in Gleiberg, Germany
- b.0918/0950 in Avalgau, Germany
- b.1027/1034 in Alost, Flanders, Belgium d.1095 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 0918 in Luxembourg d.28 Oct 0998
- b.ABT 0945/0965 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1019
- b.ABT 0885/0895 in Ferrette, France d.0940
- b.~ 0900 in Nordgau, Alsace, France d.18 Dec 0972/0973 in Germany
- b.ABT 0870/0876 in Nordgau Region, Medieval States
- b.0939 in Nordgau, Alsace, France d.13 Dec 0992
- b.0880/0886 in Aachen, Prussia d.0919
- b.ABT 0910/0915 in Vexin, France
- b.0880/0886 d.0923
- b.ABT 1009/1028 in Flanders, Belgium d.1058
- b.ABT 0866/0870 in Schwaben, Bavaria d.22 Jun 0910
- b.0880 in Schwaben, Bavaria d.02 Dec 0949
- b.0860/0865 in Schwaben, Bavaria
- b.0914/0925 in Kinzig, Hessen, Germany d.0992
- b.ABT 0848/0850 in Vermandois, Neustria d.6 Nov 0902/0920
- b.~ 0882 in Vermandois, Neustria d.12 Dec 0949
- b.~ 0852 in France
- b.0948 in Gleiberg, Germany
- b.ABT 0900/0903 d.0973
- b.0888/0925 in Avalgau, Germany d.0939
- b.~ 0906
- b.0918/0950 in Avalgau, Germany
- b.ABT 0900/0909 in Lorraine, France
- b.0926 d.0995
- b.ABT 0910/0912 in Orléans, Loiret, France
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Gilbert and Alice were married in a religious ceremony in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. They had two sons named Walter and Hugh.
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Children
Sir Hugh de Montfort-sur-Risle IV
Hugh was born in Folkingham, Warwickshire, England. He died after 1123.
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