Gilbert de Gaunt 
Gilbert was born in 1048 in Alost, Flanders, Belgium.1 Gilbert's father was Lord of Alost Ralph de Gant I and his mother was Gisele de Luxembourg. His paternal grandparents were Adalbert de Gant II and <Unknown>; his maternal grandparents were Count Frederic de Luxembourg I and Ermentrude of Gleiburg. He had a brother and a sister, named Badouin and Isabel. He died at the age of 46 in 1094.1 General Notes
Baron of Folkingham
Gilbert de Gant, 1st cousin to William Rufus and Henry I. This Gilbert de Gant, son of Baldwin of Flanders, accompanied his uncle, William the Conqueror, into England and participated in the triumph at Hastings, obtained a grant of the lands of the Danish proprietor, named Tour, with numerous lordships. Gilbert happened to be at York anno 1069 and had a narrow escape when the Danes, in great force, on behalf of Edgar the Aetheling (Prince of the Saxons and brother of Margaret, wife of Malcolm, King of Scotland), entered the mouth of the Humber, and marching on that city committed lamentable destruction by fire and sword, there being more than 3,000 Normans slain. He married Alice de Montfort, daughter of Hugh de Montfort, son of Hugh, son of Thurstan de Bastenburg, son of Aumaurie de Montfort, son of Robert I, King of France. He died in the reign of William Rufus (1087-1100). He had Hugh, who assumed the name of de Montfort, and inherited all the possessions of his grandfather, Montfort. Walter, his successor, Robert, Lord Chancellor of England anno 1153, and Emma, married to Alan, Lord Percy.
(Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 639)
GILBERT DE GANT, the first of this surname, a younger son, Baron de Folkingham, who received the lands of Tour, a Dane; had several lordships in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire, Huntingdonshire, Northon, Rutlandshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, in the last of which, at Folkingham, he made his principal seat and head of his barony; married Alice, daughter and heiress of Hugh de Montfort.
(Fenwick Allied Ancestry, page 56)
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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.0875
- b.0905
<Unknown>
- b.0940
<Unknown>
- b.1004 in Gand, Flanders, Belgium
<Unknown>
- b.1009 in Flanders, Belgium d.1047 in Alost, Flanders, Belgium
<Unknown>
- b.1048 in Alost, Flanders, Belgium d.1094
- b.0895 in Verdun, France d.0923
<Unknown>
- b.0922 in Luxembourg d.15 Aug 0998
- b.0865 d.0927
- b.0890 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.0927
- b.0875
- b.0965 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1009
- b.0870 d.0940
- b.0900 d.18 Dec 0972
- b.0876 in Ferrette, Haut Rhin, Alsace, France d.0900
- b.0934 d.13 Dec 0992
- b.0889 in Provins, Champagne-Ardennes, France d.0923 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
- b.0915 d.0974
- b.0890 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.0927
- b.1018 in Chateau de Salm, Luxembourg, Belgium d.1058 in Chapel of St. Lawrence, Ghent
- b.0866 d.24 Jun 0910 in Lechfeld
- b.0880 in Souabe d.12 Dec 0949
- b.0925 d.0992
- b.0848 in Vermandois, Neustria d.06 Nov 0907
- b.0892 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.12 Dec 0949
- b.0862
- b.0948 in Gleiberg, Germany
- b.0948 in Gleiberg, Germany
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Details of Gilbert's family with Alice de Montfort
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I67251&style=TABLE
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I13598, Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, Fenwick Allied Ancestry
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I13598, Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, Fenwick Allied Ancestry
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