Gilbert de Gaunt, Earl of Lincoln

Medlands to the contrary, dating for him as son of Gunnora de Albini Brito Does. Not. Work.

Supported barons against King John. constituted Earl of Lincoln by King Louis of France.

Gilbert de Gant, then in minority at the death of his father about 1193, and in ward to William de Stutevill. In the last year of King John's reign [1216], this Gilbert adhering to the barons, was constituted Earl of Lincoln, by Lewis of France, at that time in London, and at the head of the baronial party, and was despatched into Nottinghamshire to oppose the royalists. Shortly after which, assisted by Robert de Ropesle, he reduced the city of Lincoln, but at the subsequent battle, the baronial force being totally broken, he was taken prisoner and never after assumed the title of Earl of Lincoln, which dignity was then conferred upon Randall de Meschines, surnamed Blundaville, Earl of Chester. This ex-earl d. in 1241, leaving issue, Gilbert and Julian. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 227, Gant, Earls of Lincoln]

Family

Richardson does not claim to know his wife's name, but mentions 4 children:

1. Robert
2. Gilbert (1st Lord Gaunt)
3. Juliane m. Geoffrey de Armenters
4. Gunnor m. Ralph de Secheville of Thorpe Satchville, Lincolnshire. (They had no issue.)

Notes

http://knight-france.com/geneal/names/1321.htm

Source <A topographical and historical account of Wainfleet and the wapentake of ...> Par Edmund Oldfield:

"... Robert de Gaunt, who was also a benefactor to the Abbey of Bardney. He died in 1192, leaving issue by his first wife Alice, the daughter of William Paganel, one daughter the wife of Robert Fitz Harding, by whom she had issue an only son Maurice, who assumed the name of Gaunt. Dying without issue in 1230, the estates reverted to his uncle Gilbert de Gaunt, son of the above Robert by his second wife Gunnora, the neice of Hugh de Guornay.
This Gilbert surnamed the good, confirmed by charter the donations of his ancestors, adding the mansion house in Thorpe in the parish of Skendleby, and the services of Godfrey, the son of Bond and his successors. He died in 1242 and was succeeded by his son and heir Gilbert .the fourth of that name;"

References

• http://knight-france.com/geneal/names/1321.htm
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gand-23