Hugh de Gournay

  General Notes:

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 152:27, 255A:29, 262:31¹⁶⁰, Juliane de Dammartin, daughter of Albri de Luzarches, Chamberlain of France, comté de Dammartin and Mahilda of Clermont, Pnthieu & Dammartin. married Hugh V. de Gournay and they were the parents of Milicent de Gournay who married William Cantelou; and Juliane de Gournay who married William Bardof.

The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries, "Gournay Pedigree," p. 504¹⁰⁷³, Hugh de Gournay, son of Hugh de Gournay and his second wife, Melisende de Coucy, married Juliana, and died 1214/5

  Noted events in his life were:

• From Gen-Medieval Archives: Gournay Family Pedigree. ¹⁹³
From: royalancestryATmsn.com (Douglas Richardson)
Subject: Gournay Family Pedigree
Date: 19 Jan 2003 17:36:28 -0800

Hugh de Gournay, of Wendover, co. Buckingham, Houghton, co. Bedford, Caister and Cantley, Norfolk, Mapledurham, co. Oxford, etc., seigneur of Gournay-en-Brie, benefactor of Bellosane, Clairruissel and Fescamp Abbeys and the priory of St. Laurent en Lions, Normandy, and Missenden Abbey, co. Buckingham, son and heir, born say 1150/55 (adult by 1180). He married before 1193 Juliane de Dammartin (descendant of Charlemagne), daughter of Aubri II de Dammartin, Count of Dammartin, seigneur of Lillebonne-en-Normandie, by Mahaut (or Mabile), daughter of Renaud II, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis. They had two sons, Gerard and Hugh, and one daughter, Millicent. In 1190 he was granted the manor of Houghton Regis, co. Bedford. In 1191 he accompanied King Richard on the 3rd Crusade. At the capture of Acre, he commanded 100 knights. In 1193, he swung over temporarily to King Philip's side and his manors of Houghton and Bledlow were taken. In 1202 the manor of Wendover was re-granted to him. In 1202 he joined the French side and Wendover was granted to Ralph de Tilley. In 1206 he was pardoned at the instance of Otho the Emperor, and permitted to return to England. He was sheriff of cos. Buckingham and Bedford in 1214, being then weighed down with sickness. Hugh de Gournay died 25 October 1214 at Rouen in Normandy after donning the garb of a Templar and discarding it by apostasy.

[Sources Cited: Daniel Gurney, Record of the House of Gournay (1848), pp. 22 (chart), 128-183. Bedfordshire Historical Record Society 7 (1922): 153-157; 19 (1937): charts fol. pg. 99. Oxfordshire Record Society 7 (1925): 7-15. J. G. Jenkins, Cartulary of Missenden Abbey 1 (1938): 164-165, 188, 208-209, 244-245; 3 (1962): 13-16. Paget (1957), 266: 1-4 (sub Gurnay).]

• Background Information: ⁷⁸⁰
Hugh Gournay, son of Hugh Gournay, Senior and his wife Millicent de Marla, of the house of Coucy, was wife Richard Coeur de Lion in Palestine; and in the division of the spoil at the taking of Acre was the commissioner in behalf of the English king. He vacillated between King John and Philip Augustus, so that his estates, both in Normandy and England became forfeited. Hugh had large portions of his English territory restored to him.

Hugh married Julia, sister of Renaud de Dampmartin, Earl of Boulogne, and died in 1214. His eldest son, Gerard, died soon after; Hugh, the other son, survived him, and this Hugh and his wife Maud left issue of an only daughter named Julie who carried the English inheritance of these Barons of Gournay to William Lord Bardolf, of Wormegay in Norfolk, and his descentents. Hugh de Gournay and Julia de Dampmartin also had a daughter named Millicent who married as her first husband, Almeric, comté d'Evreux and Gloucester; and, as her second husband, William de Cantelupe.

~ The Record of the House of Gournay, p. 18, 22

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Hugues V de Gournay was the son of Hugues IV seigneur de Gournay and his second wife Mélisende de Coucy. He married Juliane de Dammartin, possible daughter of Aubry II comté de Dammartin and his wife Mathilde de Clermont-en-Beauvaisis.

"Hugo de Gornaco" founded Bellosanne Abbey by charter dated 1198 [Gurney (1845), p. 156, quoting Gallia Christiana, Vol. XI, p. 29]. "Hugo de Gornaco" donated property to Fécamp, for the souls of "Juliane uxoris mee et puerorum meorum", by charter dated 1202 [Gurney (1858), Supplement, 63, p. 756].

Hugh married Juliana de Dammartin, daughter of Alberic II comté de Dammartin comté de Dammartin and Matilda de Clermont.¹⁰⁷³ (Juliana de Dammartin was born about 1165 and died after 1202 ¹⁰⁷³.)