Raoul de Gant

• Name	Raoul de Gant
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I7697	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	27 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Gisèle
  Children	1. Gilbert de Gant,   b. of Alost, Flanders, Belgium ,   d. Abt 1095, of Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
  Last Modified	28 May 2021
  Family ID	F3313	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1, “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “GISELBERT, Count of Vaudrevange/Wallerfangen (in Moselgau). He married an unidentified wife, ___. They had two daughters, Otgive (or Ogive) and Gisele (wife of Raoul, lord of Alost). He occurs in an act dated 996 issued by Bertha, widow of count Volkmar, concerning land in Mutford in the district of Moselgau, which land was ruled by Count Giselbert. He accompanied Emperor Heinrich II to Italy in 1004. He died of wounds received in Pavia after the coronation of, the emperor as king of Italy on 18 May 1004. Beyer Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte derjetzt die Preussischen Regierungsbezirke Coblenz und Trier 2 (1865): liv (chart). Jahr-Buch der Gessellsche für lothringische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 5(2) (1893): 40-52. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 6 (1978): 128. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): VIII.143. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 301 (Ardenne-Luxembourg ped.). Dengler-Schreiber Kunigunde and Heinrich (2008). TAG 83 (2008): 116-121. Child of Count Giselbert, by ___: i. OTGIVE (or OGIVE), married BAUDOUIN IV, Count-Marquis of Flanders [see Line B, Gen. 9].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “GILBERT DE GANT (or GAUNT), of Folkingham, Claxby, Croft, Holme Spinney, Well, and Withern, Lincolnshire, Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, Stanton (in Fen Stanton), Huntingdonshire, Rufford and Eakring, Nottinghamshire, Burley and Empingham, Rutland, Hunmanby, Yorkshire, etc., 3rd son of Raoul de Gant, lord of Alost in Flanders, Advocate of St. Peter of Ghent, c.1026-c.1056, by Gisele, daughter of Giselbert, Count of Vaudrevange/Wallerfangen (in Moselgau) [see Appendix, Line E]. He married ALICE DE MONTFORT, daughter of Hugues, seigneur of Montfort-sur-Risle, by Alice de Beaufort. They had six sons, Walter, Gilbert, Hugh (or Hugues) [seigneur of Montfort-sur-Risle], Robert [Dean of York, Chancellor of King Stephen], Henry, and Ralph, and three daughters, Emma, ___ (wife of Ives de Grantmesnil), and ___ (wife of Baldwin). He probably arrived in England in 1066. He was a commander in York in 1068, and was taken prisoner there by the Danes in 1069. He was a tenant-in-chief and one of the largest landholders in Lincolnshire in 1086. He also had considerable estates in Yorkshire and lands in other counties. He gave the advowson of the churches of Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire and Hunmanby, Yorkshire to the monks of Bardney Abbey, Lincolnshire. GILBERT DE GANT died about 1095, and was buried at Bardney Abbey, Yorkshire. Anderson Genealogical Hist. of the House of Yveg 2 (1742): 50-58. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 1 (1817): 630-632. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Holmes Chartulag of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480 (chart). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 432-436. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 350-361. C.P. 7 (1929): 672-673 (sub Lincoln); 10 (1945): 439. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 27) (1931): 44-45; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 28) (1933): 9-10 (charter of Roger de Mowbray). VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 112-119. Genealogists' Mag. 9 (1940): 1-7. Paget (1957) 242:1. TAG 34 (1958): 39-40. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 46. Fasti Parochiales 3 (Pubs. Yorkshire Arch. Soc. 129) (1967): 14, 45-46, 58, 65, 93. Nottingham Medieval Studies 22 (1978): 23-35. Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 6 (1978): 128. Haskins Soc. Jour. 1 (1989): 73-90. Dalton Conquest, Anarchy & Lordship (1994): 11. Harper-Bill Anglo-Norman Studies XXI (1999): 145-168 ("Gilbert de Ghent was a younger son of a prominent family. His mother was Gisela of Luxembourg, a sister of Ogiva, mother of Count Baldwin V. So he was related to the Flemish count as well as to Matilda, wife of William of Normandy."). Dalton Conquest, Anarchy & Lordship: Yorkshire, 1066-1154 (2002): 65. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 210. Appleby & Dalton Outlaws in Medieval & Barb, Modern England (2009): 10, 15-17, 19-20, 28, 85. Children of Gilbert de Gant, by Alice de Montfort: i. WALTER DE GANT [see next]. ii. EMMA DE GANT, married ALAN DE PERCY, of Topcliffe, Yorkshire [see PERCY 2].”