Hugh de Gournay
- Born: Abt 1148, Caister, Norfolk, England
- Marriage: Juliana de Dammartin
- Died: 25 Oct 1214, Rouen, Normandy, France about age 66
 Noted events in his life were:
• From Gen-Medieval Archives: Gournay Family Pedigree. 193
From: royalancestryATmsn.com (Douglas Richardson) 599
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).]
Hugh married Juliana de Dammartin, daughter of Alberic II Comte de Dammartin and Matilda de Clermont. (Juliana de Dammartin was born about 1165.)
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