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.