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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT DE GANT (or GAUNT), of Folkingham, Barton-upon-Humber, Edenham, and Heckington, Lincolnshire, Burley, Rutland, etc., 2nd son. He married (1st) before 10 August 1152 (date of charter) ALICE PAYNELL, widow of Richard de Courcy (living c.1140-7), and daughter and heiress of William Paynell, of Hooton Pagnell, Yorkshire, Saltby, Leicestershire, Irnham, Lincolnshire, etc., by Avice (or Amice) de Rumilly, daughter of William Meschin. They had one daughter, Avice. At an unspecified date, he and his wife, Alice, exchanged lands on the north side of the way called Levigatha for lands on the south side of the way with the abbot and monks of Vaudey. At an unknown date, he confirmed the former gift of William Paynell to Kirkstall Abbey of two carucates in Keighley, Yorkshire. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the canons of Drax all that William Paynell and Avice his wife gave to them in frank almoin. He likewise granted to the canons of Drax one carucate of land which William Paynell gave them and three tofts in Saltby, Leicestershire, also giving them one carucate of land of his demesne in the same manor and two tofts adjoining. His wife, Alice, died before 1180-81. He married (2nd) GUNNOR D'AUBENEY, daughter of Ralph d'Aubeney, of Aubourn and Binbrook, Lincolnshire, by Sibyl, daughter of Thebaud de Valoines. They had two sons, Gilbert, Knt., and Stephen, and one daughter, Ellen. His wife, Gunnor, was co-heiress to her brother, Ralph d'Aubeney, by which she inherited the manors of Aubourn and Binbrook, Lincolnshire, and North Dalton, and Upper and Lower Naburn, Yorkshire. He was heir in 1185 to his niece, Alice de Gant, Countess of Huntingdon and Northampton. Sometime before 1186 he conveyed the advowson of the church of Irnham, Lincolnshire, together with one toft in Hunmanby, Yorkshire, to Bardney Abbey. Sometime before 1189 he and his wife, Gunnor, conveyed one bovate of land in the territory of Edenharn, Lincolnshire to the Abbey of St. Mary of Vaudey. Sometime before 1191, he and his nephew [nepos], Robert de Gant, witnessed a charter of Robert son of Peter Scot to Kirkstall Abbey. At an unknown date, he granted Robert de Well eight acres in Salterhaga near Skeridleby, Lincolnshire. ROBERT DE GANT died in 1191, and was buried at Vaudey Abbey, Lincolnshire. His widow, Gunnor, married (2nd) before 25 April 1197 (date of fine) (as his 2nd wife) NICHOLAS DE STUTEVILLE, of Cottingham, Yorkshire, Liddel, Cumberland, Kettleby Thorpe and Bigby, Lincolnshire, etc., 2nd son of Robert de Stuteville, of Cottingham, Yorkshire, by his wife, Helewise. On 25 April 1197 he and his wife, Gunnor, together with one of her sisters and her husband and the widower of her eldest sister, were plaintiffs in a final concord by which William d'Aubeney (their first cousin) recognized their right to the lands of Ralph d'Aubeney, namely a fee of 15 knights in Aubourn, Lincolnshire, and elsewhere in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. In 1205 he made a fine for having his inheritance of all the lands held by William de Stuteville his brother. He was one of the confederate barons who met at Stamford at Easter 1215, and was excommunicated by the Pope 16 Dec. 1215. In 1216 the sheriff of Carlisle was ordered to give William de Ireby seisin of the land which had belonged to Nicholas de Stuteville in the vale of Liddel, Cumberland. He was captured at Lincoln 20 May 1217. NICHOLAS DE STUTEVILLE died before 30 March 1218.
Anderson Genealogical Hist of the House of Yvery 2 (1742): 50-58. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 1 (1817): 630-632. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 286. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 79-80. Top. & Gen. 1(1846): 301-320. Memoirs illustrative of the Hist. & Antiqs. of the County & City of York (1848): 34-97. Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 5 (1898): 122-123. Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 426-427, 480 (chart). Lancaster & Baildon Coucher Book of the Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstall (Thoresby Soc. 8) (1904): 74 (confirmation charter of Robert de Gant; charter names his wife, Aliz Painel), 93. C.Ch.R. 3 (1908): 171-172. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 432-436, 438 (confirmation charter of Robert de Gant dated c.1170-84), 456 (notification by Robert de Gant dated 1156-57), 478 (charter of Robert de Gant dated 1191), 488 (charter of Robert de Gant dated 1156-c/1175; charter mentions his wife, Alice, and his daughter, Avice). Stenton Docs. illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 355-356 (charter of Robert de Gant dated late 12th Cent.). C.P. 7 (1929): 674, footnote a (sub Lincoln). Parker Feet of Fines for the County of York, 1246-1272 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 82) (1932): 95. Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 152-153; 9 (1952): chart opp. 1 (Stuteville ped.), 13-15. VCH Yorkshire N.R. 1 (1914): 240. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 112-119. Early Yorkshire Charters 7 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Extra Ser. 5) (1947): 4-9. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 46, 55. English Yorkshire Hundred & Quo Warranto Rolls (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 151) (1996): 214. Katharine Dalton Conquest, Anarchy & Lordship: Yorkshire, 1066-1154 (2002): 291. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 472. Lincolnshire Archives: MSS. of the Earl of Ancaster, 5ANC1/1/7 (charter of Robert de Gant) (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Nottinghamshire Archives: Savik of Rufford: Deeds & Estate Papers, DD/SR/102/35 (charter of Robert de Gant) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Child of Robert de Gant, by Alice Paynell:
i. AVICE DE GANT, married (as his 2nd wife) ROBERT FITZ ROBERT (also known as ROBERT DE WEARE) of Weare and Pawlett, Somerset, Beverstone, Elberton in Berkeley Herness, King's Weston, Northwick, Over (in .Almondbury), Purton (in Lidney), Redwick (in Henbury), Gloucestershire, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Barrow and Englishcombe, Somerset, son of Robert Fitz Harding, of Bristol. They had two sons, Maurice de Gant and Henry de Gant [Rector of the Almonry of St. Mark's Hospital, Billeswick]. Robert previously married (1st) HAWISE DE GOURNAY, daughter and heiress of Robert de Gournay, by whom he had a daughter, Eve (wife successively of Thomas de Tilly, Roger de Peauton, and Thomas son of William FitzJohn of Harptree). His wife, Avice, died in 1192. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT died in 1194. Anderson Genealogical Hist. of the House of Yvery 2 (1742): 50-58. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Memoirs illustrative of the Hist. & Antiqs. of the County & City of York (1848): 34-97. Procs. Clifton Antiquarian Club 2 (1893): 24 (Gant ped.). Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480 (chart). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). Child[ren] of Avice de Gant, by Robert Firz Robert...
Children of Robert de Gant, by Gunnor d'Aubeney:
i. GILBERT DE GANT, Knt. [see next].
ii. STEPHEN DE GANT. He witnessed a charter of his brother, Gilbert de Gant, dated before June 1210. He and brother, Gilbert de Gant, were taken prisoners at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 2 (Rolls Ser. 73) (1880): 110-111. C.Ch.R. 3 (1908): 171-172. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 205.
iii. ELLEN DE GANT, married WALTER THE CHAMBERLAIN, of Heckington and Scampton, Lincolnshire. Sometime in the early 1200's, Walter gave various tenements and lands in Heckington, Lincolnshire to the Cathedral Church of Lincoln. Foster Hist. of the Villages of Aisthorpe and Thorpe-le-Fallows (1927): 23-24, 80-85. Major Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 7 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 46) (1953): 115-119.”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WALTER DE GANT (or GAUNT), of Folkingham and Aisthorpe, Lincolnshire, Stanton (in Fen Stanton), Huntingdonshire, Rufford and Eakring, Nottinghamshire, Burley, Rutland, etc., son and heir, of age before 1113 or 1114. He married before 1120 MAUD OF BRITTANY, daughter of Stephen (or Etienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond, by his wife, Hawise [see RICHMOND 4 for her ancestry]. Her maritagm include the manor of Swaledale, Yorkshire. They had six sons, Gilbert [Earl of Lincoln], Robert, Philip, Baldwin [Canon of Bridlington], Geoffrey, and possibly Walter [Canon of Oseney, Abbot of Waltham], and three daughters, Alice, Agnes, and (wife of William Fitz Walter). He founded Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire in 1113 or 1114. He confirmed his father's gift to Bardney Abbey, Lincolnshire in 1115. He was a member of the council of King Henry I in 1121 or 1122 and Sept. 1131. He was present at the Easter court of King Stephen in 1136. He was a commander at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. WALTER DE GANT died as a monk at Bardney Abbey, Yorkshire in 1139.
Anderson Genealogical Hist. of the House of Yvery 2 (1742): 50-58. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 1 (1817): 628-629 (undated charter of Walter de Gant son and heir of Gilbert de Gant), 629-630 (undated charter of Walter de Gaunt; charter is witnessed by his "nephew" [or "kinsman"' [nepote] William, Constable of Chester), 630 (charter of Walter de Gaunt dated 1125; charter names his father, Gilbert de Gaunt; charter witnessed by Robert de Gaunt), 630-632; 6(1) (1830): 287 (charter of Maud, wife of Walter de Gaunt, names her father, Count Stephen of Brittany [consulis Stephani Brittaniae]). Ingledew Hist. & Antiqs. of North Allerton (1858): 28-29. Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480 (chart). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #48. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). VCH Yorkshire N.R. 1 (1914): 240. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 427-428 (charter of Walter de Gant dated c.1125-30), 429 (testamentary grant of Walter de Gant dated 1130-39; grant witnessed by his wife, Maud), 432-436, 449 (writ of Walter de Gant dated 1119-30), 495-496 (notification by Walter de Gant dated c.1130-1139; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert), 496 (confirmation charter of Walter de Gant dated c.1130-1139). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 350-361. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 27) (1931): 1115; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 28) (1933): 9-10. CP. 7 (1929): 672-673 (sub Lincoln); 10 (1945): 780 (chart), 786-787 (sub Richmond). VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 112-119. Paget (1957) 242:1. Clay York Minster Fasti 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 124) (1959): 35. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 46. Fasti Parochiales 3 (Pubs. Yorkshire Arch. Soc. 129) (1967): 6, 8, 45-46, 91. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 75. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 17: Coventry & Lichfield 1183-1208 (1998): 140-141. Katharine Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 472. Yorkshire Arch. Journal 75 (2003): 63-76.
Children of Walter de Gant, by Maud of Brittany:
i. GILBERT DE GANT, of Folkingham, Lincolnshire, Stanton (in Fen Stanton), Huntingdonshire, Burley, Rutland, etc., son and heir, born at Bridlington about 1120. In the period, 1139-1149, he confirmed his father's gift of land to Hausgot de Eakring. He fought on the side of King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in Feb. 1140/1, where he was taken prisoner by Ranulph, Earl of Chester. He married ROHESE DE CLARE, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert, of Clare, Suffolk, by Alice, daughter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester [see CLARE 3 for her ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alice. In 1147 he claimed the honour of Pontefract against Henry de Lacy, and, in the fighting which ensued, Pontefract Priory was burned down and Gilbert was excommunicated. He was created Earl of Lincoln c.1148. About 1148, as Earl of Lincoln, he founded Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire. In the period, 1148-53, he granted Rufford Abbey all the land which Ralph son of Rainger held of him in Cratela, Nottinghamshire less a bovate, in exchange for a carucate of land in Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire. In the period, 1148-66, his wife, Rohese confirmed to the monks of Kirkstead the donation of Ralph Fitz Gilbert of land at Scampton, Lincolnshire which her husband, Earl Gilbert, gave her in dower. In the period, c.1148-56, he gave four carucates of land in Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire to William Basset. In the period, 1148-56, he granted Herbert Fitz Adelard land at Fenton and Walcot, Lincolnshire. In the period, 1148-56, he granted Tero' Fitz Malger half of Speeton, Yorkshire. He was a benefactor to Bardney, Bridlington, Kirkstead, Rievaulx, Sempingham, and Thornton. He also gave the monks of Biham a better site for their abbey at Vaudey in Edenham, Lincolnshire. GILBERT DE GANT, Earl of Lincoln, died in 1156, requesting his burial at Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire. In the period, 1156-63, his widow, Rohese, granted land in Cradey in free alms to Rufford Priory, except for the service due to her from Hugh Fitz Ralph. She married (2nd) before 1163 ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Ilkley, Yorkshire, South Elkington, Lincolnshire, etc., Steward to William de Percy, son of Robert Fitz Fulk, of Ilkley, Yorkshire, South Elkington, Lincolnshire, etc., Steward to William de Percy, by Alice, daughter of Herbert de Saint Quintin. They had two daughters, Margaret (wife of William de Kyme) and Rohese (or Rose). About 1148 he granted Sallay Abbey, Yorkshire two bovates in Ilkley, Yorkshire and two assarts. At an unknown date, he and his wife, Countess Rohese, granted to Thomas Fitz Wigot all his father's lands in Scampton, Lincolnshire. Anderson Genealogical Hist. of the House of Yvery 2 (1742): 50-58. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 197-228 ("Gilbert de Gaunt, by deed confirmed to the said monks, 40 acres of land at Gudlacistovia in Swaffham], which Earl Alan his uncle had granted them; this Gilbert de Gaunt was Earl of Lincoln."). Dugdale Monasticon Auglicanum 1 (1817): 630-632; 6(1) (1830): 286 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln), 288. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 79-80. Top. & Gen. 1 (1846): 301-320. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Rievalle (Surtees Soc. 83) (1889): 47 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated pre-1148), 47-48 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1147-56). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 5 (1898): 122-123. Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480-482, 520-521 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1147-56; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Gant and Baldwin de Gant), 521-522 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1147-56; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Gant and Baldwin de Gant). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #48. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [11857 (Pipe Roll Soc. 35) (1913): 5 ([Elizabeth] widow of Robert Fitz Hugh de Tateshale, styled "niece of Earl Gilbert de Gant" Ineptis Comitis Gileberti de Ganti), 9 ([Elizabeth] widow of Robert Fitz Hugh styled "daughter of William Fitz Walter of Welle" [filia Willelmi filii Waken de Welle]). VCH Yorkshire N.R. 1 (1914): 240. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 429 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated c.1139-48; charter witnessed by his brothers, Geoffrey, Robert, and Baldwin), 429-430 (notification by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1150-56), 432-436, 449-50 (notification by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1158-53), 450 451 (confirmation charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-53), 454-455 (confirmation charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1155-56; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert de Gant), 469-470 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1142-47), 470-471 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1147), 471 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56), 471 (notification by Gilbert Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56), 471-472 (grant by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56), 493-494 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56). Stenton Documents illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 262 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1147-53). Stenton Transcripts of Charters reL to the Gilbertine Houses of Sixle, Ormsly, Catley, Bullington, and Alvingham (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 18) (1922): 42, 98. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 27) (1931): 41-45; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 28) (1933): 9-10. C.P. 7 (1929): 672-673 (sub Lincoln); 9 (1936): 369-372. McNulty Chartulary of the Cistercian Abby of St. Mary of Sallay in Craven 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 90) (1934): 78-79 (charter of Robert, Steward of William de Percy, dated c.1148). VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 112-119. Yorkshire Deeds 9 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 111) (1948): 162 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1148-56; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Gant, Robert de Gant, and Baldwin de Gant). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 204-205 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated c.1148-56). Paget (1957) 130:5. Davis King Stephen (1967): 138 ("Gilbert de Gant is usually stated to have been created earl of Lincoln c.1147-8, but in a charter which he gave to Bardney Abbey and addressed to Robert Bishop of Lincoln (elected 13 December, consecrated 19 December 1148), he still styles himself plain Gilbertus de Gaunt (B.M., Cotton MS, Vespasian E. xx, f. 54). In royal charters he may sometimes be confused with two other Earl Gilberts, of Pembroke and Hertford, but is is referred to as Gilbertus comes Lincolnie in a writ of Stephen for William de Huntingfield (Reg. iii. 123,414). It may be presumed that he was appointed during, or as a result of, Stephen's successful northern campaign in 1149."). Holdsworth Rufford Charters (Thoroton Soc. Rec. Ser. 30) (1974): 392 (Countess Rohese styled "sister of Earl Roger de Clare" [soror comitis Rogeri de Clara]), 408. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 17: Coventry & Lichfield 1183-1208 (1998): 140-141. Dalton Conquest, Anarchy & Lordship: Yorkshire, 1066-1154 (2002): 164-165. Katharine Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 472. Tanner Families, Friends, & Allies: Boulogne & Politics in Northern France & England (2004): 197, 206. Wilkinson Women in 13th Cent. Lincolnshire (2007): 8 ("During her marriage to Gilbert de Gant, earl of Lincoln (d. 1156) ... Rohese de Clare employed a portrait seal which bore the legent 'SIGILLUM ROHAIS UXORIS GILLEBERTI DE GANT.' When Gilbert died, Rohese married a new husband of less exalted rank. She thereafter adopted a new seal which displayed eight heraldic chevrons associated with her natal family of Clare and bore a new legent, `SIGILLUM ROHESIE COMITISSE LINCOLNIE,' celebrating the title acquired through her first marriage.").
Child of Gilbert de Gant, by Rohese de Clare:
a. ALICE DE GANT, daughter and heiress. She married SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Northampton and Huntingdon [see BEAUCHAMP 4.i], son and heir of Simon de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester [see BEAUCHAMP 4 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1138. He was a minor at his father's death in 1153, and remained in ward to the king for about five years. They had one son, Simon, who died young. Sometime before 1163 he confirmed his father's grant in Merton, Oxfordshire to the Templars. He and his wife, Alice, issued two confirmation charters to Stixwould Priory c.1155-60. In 1174 he was recognized as Earl of Huntingdon. As Simon, Earl of Huntingdon, he granted to the monks of Wardon, Bedfordshire a certain road as they had it on the day he came to the Siege of Huntingdon. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Northampton and Huntingdon, died June 1184. He was buried in St. Andrew's Priory, Northampton, to which he was a benefactor. His widow, Alice, died in 1185. She gave the mills of Folkingham, Lincolnshire to Sempinghan Priory, Lincolnshire in order that she might be buried there, but it appears she was instead buried at Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire. Anderson Genealogical Hist. of the House of Yvery 2 (1742): 50-58. Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 50. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 212,491 (Gant ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 79-80. Top. & Gen. 1 (1846): 301-320. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Rievalle (Surtees Soc. 83) (1889): 48 (undated charter of Earl Simon; charter granted with consent of his wife, Alice), 114-115 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon and Countess Alice his wife), 115 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant; charter names her father, Gilbert de Gant; charter witnessed by Simon brother of the Earl), 116 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 5 (1898): 122-123. Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480-482, 520 (undated charter of Earl Simon; charter names his "antecessor," Gilbert de Gant), 525 (charter of Countess Alice, daughter of Gilbert de Gant). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). VCH Yorkshire N.R 1 (1914): 240. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 432-436, 436-438 (confirmation charter of Countess A[lice] daughter of Gilbert Earl of Lincoln dated c.1180-5), 461-465 (confirmation charter by Countess Alice daughter of Earl Gilbert dated 1160-76), 472-473 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton dated 1156-74; charter witnessed by Simon brother of the Earl), 473-474 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated 1160-c.1175), 474 (confirmation charter of Countess A[lice] de Gant dated 1160-c.1175), 474-475 (grant by Earl Simon dated 1156-84), 492-493 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant daughter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1184-5; charter names Robert Scrope of Barton, son of Richard Scrope and Agnes her aunt [matertera]), 498 199 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated 1166-80), 499 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated c.1170-80), 502-503 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon and Countess Alice his wife dated c.1170-84; charter witnessed by his brother, Simon son of the Earl). C.P. 6 (1926): 645-646 (sub Huntingdon); 7 (1929): 673 (sub Lincoln); 9 (1936): 664 (sub Northampton). VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 112-119. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 280 (charter of Simon son of Simon Earl of Northampton dated 1153-7). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 60-61. Dalton Conquest, Anarchy & Lordship: Yorkshire, 1066-1154 (2002): 291. Nottinghamshire Archives: Savile of Rufford: Deeds & Estate Papers, DD/SR/102/59; DD/SR/102/142; DD/SR/102/143; DD/SR/102/X/11 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Child of Robert Fitz Robert, by Rohese de Clare:
a. ROHESE (or ROSE) DE CLARE, married SIMON DE KYME, of Sotby, Lincolnshire [see KYME 5].
ii. ROBERT DE GANT [see next].
iii. ALICE DE GANT, married (1st) GILBERT DE LACY (or LASCY), of Pontefract, Yorkshire (he died without issue in 1141). Sometime after 1141 his widow, Alice, granted the monks of St. John of Pontefract a carucate of land in Ingolvesmeles. She married (2nd) before 17 April 1153 (date of charter) ROGER DE MOWBRAY, Knt., of Thirsk, Yorkshire, son and heir of Nele (or Nigel) de Mowbray, by his 2nd wife, Gundred, daughter of Gerard de Gournay. He was a minor at his father's death in 1129. They had two sons, Nele (or Nigel) and Robert. He fought at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. He fought for King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, where he was taken prisoner. In 1147 he took part in the second Crusade. In the period, 1150-58, his wife, Alice, witnessed a charter of Avice de Rumilly to Drax Priory. In 1153 he executed a charter at York in favor of the Cathedral. His wife, Alice, was living 9 June 1154. In 1173 he supported Henry the Young King against his father, King Henry II. He surrendered his castle at Thirsk, Yorkshire 31 July 1174, and his made his peace with the king. Sometime during the reign of King Henry II, he granted the church of Empingham, Rutland, together with the lands and tithes, to Lincoln Cathedral. In 1186 he served in the Third Crusade. At an unknown date, he confirmed the earlier grant of his wife, Alice, of a carucate of land in Ingolvesmeles to the monks of St. John of Pontefract. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Hitdrt by the Saracens 4 July 1187, and the following year he was ransomed by the Templars. SIR ROGER DE MOWBRAY died in Palestine or on his return home in 1188. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the monks of St. Mary's, York, Byland, Rievaulx, Jervaulx, Newburgh, the canons of Kenilworth, Bridlington, Sulby, the hospital of St. Peter or St. Leonard, York, Selby, Nun Monkton, Arden, Combe Abbey, Warwickshire, the nuns of Sinningthwaite, and Burton Lazars, Leicestershire. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1(1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 309 (charter of Alice de Gant). Mundy et al. Vis. of Nottingham 1569 & 1614 (H.S.P. 4) (1871): 51 (charter of Roger de Mowbray dated before 1146; charter names his wife, A[lice], daughter of Walter de Gant and niece [neptae] of Count Alan). Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 1 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 25) (1899): 33 (charter of Henry de Lacy dated c.1147; charter names Alice, wife of Roger de Mowbray, widow of his brother, Ebert de Lacy). Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480 (chart), 527 (charter of Alice de Gant; charter names her husband, Ebert de Lacy). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). C.P. 9 (1936): 369-372 (sub Mowbray). Greenway Charters of the Honour of Mowbray, 1107-1191 (1972). Dalton Conquest, Anarchy, & Lordship: Yorkshire, 1066-1154 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life & Thought 4th ser. 27) (1994).
iv. AGNES DE GANT, married (1st) WILLIAM DE MOHUN, of Dunster, Somerset, son and heir of William de Mohun, of Dunster, Somerset, by his wife, Alice. He was an adult before 1131. They had six sons, Ralph, William, Henry, Iwan, Peter, and Richard. Her maritagium included the manor of Whichford, Warwickshire. He and his wife, Agnes, gave the advowson of the church of Whichford, Warwickshire to Bridlington Priory, which was founded by Agnes' father, Walter de Gant. William was created Earl of Somerset in 1141. This honour did not continue in the family. WILLIAM DE MOHUN was living in 1142. His widow, Agnes, married (2nd) before 1145 RICHARD LE SCROPE, of Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire. They had one son, Robert (of Flotmanby and Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire). Dugdale Monastkon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 286. Arch. Jour. 37 (1880): 57-93. Maxwell-Lyte: Hist. of Dunster 1 (1909): 5-9. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 430, 489-490. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 205-209 (Agnes, wife of Richard le Scrope, styled "aunt" [inatertera] by Alice de Gant, Countess of Northampton in charter dated 1184-5). CP. 9 (1936): 18, footnote h; 11(1949): 531-532 (sub Scrope). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 114. TG 8 (1988): 3-38.
Child of Agnes de Gant, by William de Mohun:
a. WILLIAM DE MOHUN, of Dunster, Somerset, married GODEHILDE DE TONY [see MOHUN 5].”
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