Alicia de Montfort

  General Notes:

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

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Gilbert de Gaunt or Gilbert of Ghent, probably arrived in England in 1066. He was a commander in York in 1968 and was taken prisoner there by the Danes in 1069. He was tenant--in-cheif and one of the largest landholders in Lincolnshire at the time of the Domesday Survey. Folkingham was the head of his barony. he married Alice de Montfort, daughter of Lord Hugh de Montfort-sur-Risle. Gilbert and Alice were the parents of Walter de Gaunt, his son and heir.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 143:22

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Alix de Montfort-sur-Risle

"Guillaume of Jumièges records that "secundus Hugo", son of "Turstinus...de Bastenburc...[filium] Hugonem cum barba de Monteforti", had "de filia Richardi de Bellofago...unam filiam" who married "Giselbertus de Ganz"[Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Duchesne, 1619), Liber VII, XXXVIII, p. 289]."

Alicia married Gilbert de Gand 1st Earl of Lincoln, son of Raoul de Gand seigneur de Alost and Gisèla de Luxembourg, about 1065.²⁰¹ (Gilbert de Gand 1st Earl of Lincoln was born about 1048 in Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium, died about 1095 in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England ¹⁶⁰ and was buried about 1095 in Bardney, Lincolnshire, England ¹⁶⁰.)