Gilbert de Gaunt seigneur de Folquingham

  General Notes:

~Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166, Keats-Rohan, pgs. 210, 471

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁰⁹
Ralf, Advocate of St. Peter's and Seigneur d'Alost, coccus in 1034 together with his wife, Gisela, in a charter making a gift to St. Peter's [Arnold Faison, Cartulaire de Gand, Livres des Donations faites a l'Abbaye de St. Pierre de Gand, 1905, p. 115; Vanderkindere, vol. I, p. 113-114]. Ralf again occurs in charters down to 1052 [Van Lokeren, Chartes de Saint Pierre, no. 129]. The oldest son of Ralf, Baldwin, succeed to the Seigneurie of Alost and became Advoacate of St. Peter's. He first appears in 1065 [Prou, Actes de Philippe 1st, no. xxii]. The second son, Ralf the Chamberlain, was living in 1095 {Van Lokeren, ib, p. 197, no. 7]. The youngest son, Gilbert was without a doubt, the Dommesday tenant. So Gilbert de Gant, the Domesday tenant, was the son of Ralf, Seigneur d'Alost, Advocate of St. Peter's and his wife Gisela, probably the daughter of Frederick I, Count of Luxembourg. Ralf, Seigneur d'Alost was most likely the son of Ralf the Advocate of 995/5 and the grandson of Baldwin the Advocate of 962. Also, Gilbert's son, Water de Gant, lord of Folkingham, named one of his sons Baldwin [CP, rev. ed, Vol. VII, p. 672]

In view of the great holdings of Gilbert at the time of the Domeday Survey, and the fact that in 1065, he was a young man and a third son, it is tempting to suppose the he was one of the Flemish adventurers, who accompanied William the Conqueror in 1066.

~The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 115, Jul 1962 "The Parentage of Gilbert de Gant," pp. 209-211

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Gilbert de Gaunt or Gilbert of Ghent, probably arrived in England in 1066. He was a commander in York in 1968 and was taken prisoner there by the Danes in 1069. He was tenant--in-cheif and one of the largest landholders in Lincolnshire at the time of the Domesday Survey. Folkingham was the head of his barony. he married Alice de Montfort, daughter of Lord Hugh de Montfort-sur-Risle. Gilbert and Alice were the parents of Walter de Gaunt, his son and heir.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots . . ., 8th Edition, 143:22

• Web Reference: Who were the parents of Gilbert de Gant?. ¹⁹³

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹

Gilbert, father of Walter, and husband of Aldaliza de Montfort is said to have been the son of Ralph de Gant, lord of Alost, circa 1038-56. Gilbert was in charge at the battle of York in 1068, and was taken prisoner there by the Danes in 1609. He was tenant-in-chief and one of the largest land owners in Lincolnshire in 1086. He also had considerable estates in Yorkshire and lands in other conties. Gilbert died circa 1095 and was buried at Bardney. Of his sons, Hugh succeeded to his mother's estates in Normandy and took Montfort as his surname. His son Robert became Chancellor to King Stephen and dean of York. Gilbert also had sons, Henry and Ralph.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Lincoln), Vol. VII, p. 672, footnote (b)

Gilbert married Alice de Montfort, daughter of Hugh II de Montfort and Alice de Beaufou, about 1065. (Alice de Montfort was born about 1050 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France ¹⁶⁰.)