Hugh Seigneur de Gournay
- Born: Abt 1040, Gournay-en-Bray, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France933
- Marriage: Basilia Flaitel 933
- Died: After 1093933
- Buried: Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec, Le Bec-Hellouin, Normandy, France933
 Noted events in his life were:
• From Gen-Medieval Archives. 193
From: royalancestryATmsn.com (Douglas Richardson) 599
Subject: Gournay Family Pedigree
Date: 19 Jan 2003 17:36:28 -0800
Hugh de Gournay, seigneur of Gournay-en-Brie, Normandy, Domesday tenant of Liston, Ardley, and Fordham, Essex, son and heir. He married Basile Flaitel, widow of Raoul de Gace, Constable of Normandy, and daughter of Gerard Flaitel. Her maritagium was the castle of Ecouche, near Falaise in Normandy. They had two sons, Gerard and Hugh. In 1077, he witnessed the foundation charter of the monastery of St. Stephens at Caen by King William the Conqueror and in 1082 the foundation charter of the nunnery of Holy Trinity Caen by King William the Conqueror and his wife, Queen Maud. Hugh and his wife, Basile, retired to the Abbey of Bec in France c. 1082 with her niece, Ansfride. They were still living c. 1093, when St. Anselm was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury. A letter from Anselm to Basile has been preserved. He predeceased his wife. Both are buried at the Abbey of Bec.
[Sources cited by the author: Daniel Gurney, Record of the House of Gournay (1948), pp. 22 (chart), 46-62; Bedfordshire Historical Record Society 7 (1922): 153-157; 19 (1937): charts fol. pg. 99. Oxfordshire Record Society 7 (1925): 7-15. Paget (1957), 266: 1-4 (sub Gurnay).]
Hugh married Basilia Flaitel, daughter of Gerard de Flaitel and Unknown. 933 (Basilia Flaitel was buried in Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec, Le Bec-Hellouin, Normandy, France.)
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