Seigneur Gerard de Gournay 
Gerard was born in 1040 in Gournay, France.1 Gerard's father was Hugh de Gournay III and his mother was Basilie Basita Flaitel. His paternal grandparents were Hugh de Gournay II and <Unknown>; his maternal grandparents were Gerald de Flaitel and Herleva D'Evereaux. He had a sister named Judith. He was the younger of the two children. He had a half-brother named Richard.General Notes
Baron of Yarmouth
Gerard de Gournay, Baron of Yarmouth, was a grand Seigncur. He married Edith, daughter of William, Earl of Varenne in France, and 1st Earl of Warren and Surrey, in England, so created by William, the Conqueror, with whom he came to England in 1066. They had five children: Hugues III, Gautier, Anseau, Gonnor and Gundred. He went on the First Crusade and died on the way home on the 8th of May, 1097. Edith, who had accompanied him, was taken back to Normandy by Drogon, a Chevallier and friend of Gerard, who after married her, and they had a son. Drogon had rich manoirs of his own, but Henry I, of England, under pretense of danger to Gerard's children, put senechals in all their manoirs, took their fortresses, and took Gerard's children to himself. Of the above children their daughter, Gundred de Gournay, married Nigel d'Albini, and Gonner.
(Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 469)
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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.0900 in Gournay, France
- b.0920 in Gournay, France
<Unknown>
- b.0940 in Gournay, France
<Unknown>
- b.0960 in Gournay, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
- b.0985 in Gournay-sur-Marne, Normandy, France d.1074 in Gournay-sur-Marne, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
- b.1040 in Gournay, France
- b.0960 in Evereux, Normandie, France
- b.0985 in Longueville, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
- b.1000 in Normandy, France d.16 Jan 1098
- b.0900 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in Picardy, France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Faecamp, Normandie d.20 Nov 0996 in Faecamp, Normandie
- b.0911 in Bretagne
- b.0965 in Normandie d.1037
- b.0921 in Crepon, Normandy, France d.1002 in Longueville-sur-Scie, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.0945 in Normandie d.1031 in Normandy, France
- b.0923 in Uppsala, Sweden d.1002
- b.1003
- b.0900 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in Picardy, France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Faecamp, Normandie d.20 Nov 0996 in Faecamp, Normandie
- b.0911 in Bretagne
- b.0968 in Normandy, France d.21 Feb 1034 in Evreux, Rouen, Seine-et-Maritime, France
- b.0921 in Crepon, Normandy, France d.1002 in Longueville-sur-Scie, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.0945 in Normandie d.1031 in Normandy, France
- b.0923 in Uppsala, Sweden d.1002
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Details of Gerard's family with Edith de Warenne
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=tamer&id=I5607&style=TABLE
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=tamer&id=I5607&style=TABLE, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I18369
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=tamer&id=I5607&style=TABLE, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I18369
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