Raoul de Gand seigneur de Alost

  General Notes:

K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, Vol. II, Father of Gislebert de Gand, p. 210

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁸
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

Raoul married Gisèla de Luxembourg, daughter of Fredick I comté de Luxembourg and Ermentrude of Gleiberg. (Gisèla de Luxembourg was born in Flanders, Belgium, died after 1058 in Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium ¹⁶⁰ and was buried after 1058 in St. Lawrence of Ghent. Flemish Region, Beligium ¹⁶⁰.)