Gant, Baron of Folkingham Gilbert de
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Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Gant, Baron of Folkingham Gilbert de (son of Gant, Raoul de SireD'aloet). Notes:
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[Line from "The Plantagenet Ancestry," W.H.Turton (Balt.: Gen. Pub. Co., 1968), p. 88, 100:] Gilbert "accompanied his uncle [William the Conqueror] into England, and participating in the triumph of Hastings, obtained a grant of the lands of a Danish
proprietor, named Tour, with numerous other lordships. This Gilbert happened to be in York, anno 1069, and had a narrow escape, when the Danes, in great force on behalf of Edgar Etheling, entered the mouth of the Humber, and marching upon that city,
committed lamentable destruction by fire and sword, there being more than 3,000 Normans slain. Like most of the great lords of his time, Gilbert de Gant disgorged a part of the spoil which he had siezed to the churches, and amongst other acts of piety
restored Bardney Abbey, co. Lincoln, which had been utterly destroyed many years before by the pagan Danes, Inquar and Hubba." - Burke's "Dormant and Extinct Peerages," 1883, p. 227. Gilbert is "son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, by Maud, sister of
William the Conqueror".
[An alternate ancestry is given elsewhere in this database. Also see "Falaise Roll" (Baltimore: Gen. Pub. Co., 1994), p. 30.]Gilbert married de Montfort, Alice (or Jeanne) on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
2. Gant, Raoul de SireD'aloet (son of Adalbert Count of Gand and Flanders, Ermengarde of). Children:
Generation: 3
4. Adalbert Count of Gand (son of Arnulf, Count of Holland II and Cleves, Luitgarde of). Notes:
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"Falaise Roll" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994), p. 30, opines
that he is second son if Wickman, created Count of Gand in 940 by Emperor
Otho, his nephew. This Wickman is second son of Bruno, Duke of Saxony.
Bruno descends from Witiking, duke of Angria, who opposed Charlemange ca.
780.married Flanders, Ermengarde of on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Flanders, Ermengarde of (daughter of Baldwin, Count of Flanders (the Forester) IV and Luxembourg, Ogive of). Children:
Generation: 4
8. Arnulf, Count of Holland II (son of Dirk, Count of Holland II and Hildegard of Flanders); died on 18 Sep 993. Notes:
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Arnulf was killed while fighting the West Frisians and was succeeded by his
12-year-old son Dirk III.II married Cleves, Luitgarde of on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Cleves, Luitgarde of Children:
10. Baldwin, Count of Flanders (the Forester) IV was born in 980 (son of Arnulf, II Ct. of Flanders and Rosele); died on 30 May 1036. Notes:
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Baldwin IV "fought successively both against the Capetian king of France
and the emperor Henry II" who was forced to grant him "in fief
Valenciennes, the burggraveship of Ghent, the land of Waes and Zeeland.
The count of Flanders thus became a feudatory of the empire as well as of
the French crown. The French fiefs are known in Flemish history as Crown
Flanders, the German fiefs as Imperial Flanders." {Encycl. Brit., 1956,
9:356} His nickname is "Handsome Beard". He m. (2) a daughter of Richard
II, Duke of Normandy. He reigned 988-1035.IV married Luxembourg, Ogive of in 1012. Ogive (daughter of Frederick, Count of Luxembourg I and Gueldre, Irmintrud of) was born in 995; died on 21 Feb 1030. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
11. Luxembourg, Ogive of was born in 995 (daughter of Frederick, Count of Luxembourg I and Gueldre, Irmintrud of); died on 21 Feb 1030. Notes:
Married:
his first wifeChildren:
- 5. Flanders, Ermengarde of
- Baldwin, Count of Flanders V was born in 1012; died on 1 Sep 1067 in Lille.