Count Gilbert (Crispin) de Brienne (Giselbert Crispin) 
Gilbert, known as Crispin, was born in 0989 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France.1 Crispin's father was Count Godfrey de Brienne and his mother was <Unknown>. His paternal grandparents were Duke of Normandy Richard (San Peur, The Fearless) Normandy I and Gonnor de Crepon. He had a brother named de Brienne. He died due to murder / assassination at the age of 51 in 1040 in Eschafour, Normandy, France.1 General Notes
Gislebert, surnamed Crispin, Earl of Brion, in Normandy, whose eldest son [was] Richard FitzGilbert. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 118, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
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Gilbert, Count of Brionne
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Gilbert/Giselbert "Crispin", Count of Brionne and Eu, (ca. 1002-1040), the great progenitor of the illustrious house of Clare, of the Barons Fitz Walter, and the Earls of Gloucester and Hertford was the son of an illegitimate child of Richard the Fearless and inherited Brionne, becoming one of the most powerful landowners in Normandy. He married Gunnora d'Aunou, He had children by his wife and a mistress.
(prob) Esilia Crispin, (b. ca. 1028), (d. ca. 1072). m. William Malet, Seigneur of Graville, (ca. 1042).
Sir Richard Fitz Gilbert (b. ca. 1035).
Baldwin de Clare.
When Robert I, Duke of Normandy died in 1035 his illegitimate son William inherited his father's title. Several leading Normans, including Gilbert of Brionne, Osbern the Seneschal and Alan of Brittany, became William's guardians.
A number of Norman barons including Raoul de Gacé would not accept an illegitimate son as their leader. In 1040 an attempt was made to kill William but the plot failed. Gilbert however was murdered while he was peaceably riding near Eschafour. It is believed two of his killers were Ralph of Wacy and Robert de Vitot. This appears to have been an act of vengeance for wrongs inflicted upon the orphan children of Giroie by Gilbert, and it is not clear what Raoul de Gacé had to do in the business. Fearing they might meet their father's fate, his sons Richard and his brother Baldwin were conveyed by their friends to the court of Baldwin, Count of Flanders.
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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.0852 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.0890 in Orkney, Scotland
- b.0872 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.0931 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Normandie, Neustria
- b.0858 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.0900 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in Picardy, France
- b.0847 in Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France d.0886 in Viking attack at Bayeaux, Normandy, France
- b.0872 in Evreux, Neustria
- b.0855
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Faecamp, Normandie d.20 Nov 0996 in Faecamp, Normandie
- b.0839 in Vermandois, Aisne, Picardy, France d.0893 in Senlis, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.0880 in Senlis, Oise, Picardy, France d.23 Feb 0942 in St. Quentin, Flanders
<Unknown>
- b.0911 in Bretagne
- b.0860 d.15 Jun 0923
- b.0897 in Vermandois, Neustria, France d.Mar 0930 in Vermandois, Neustria, France
- b.0879 in Bourges, Berry, France
- b.0953 in Normandy, France d.1015 in France
- b.0858 in Sjaelland Island, Denmark d.0899
- b.0880 d.0931 in Denmark
- b.0864 in Wessex, England
- b.0921 in Crepon, Normandy, France d.1002 in Longueville-sur-Scie, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.0871 in Farndon, Cheshire d.17 Jul 0924 in Farndon-on-Dee
- b.0896 in Denmark d.0935
- b.0878 in Damerham, Wiltshire, England d.0920 in Wessex, England
- b.0945 in Normandie d.1031 in Normandy, France
- b.0875 in Uppsala, Sweden d.0950
- b.0895 in Uppsala, Sweden d.0985
<Unknown>
- b.0923 in Uppsala, Sweden d.1002
- b.0870 in Sula, Sweden
- b.0900 in Sula, Sweden
<Unknown>
- b.0989 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1040 in Eschafour, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
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Details of Crispin's family with Constance d'Eu
Details of Crispin's family with Gunnora d'Aunou
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I006708
Further source/citation:
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Further source/citation:
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