Gerard Flaitel

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Flaitel

Gerard was a Norman baron with substantial estates in the Pays de Caux, the Hiemois, the Evrecin and Risle valley.

In 1035, when Robert I, Duke of Normandy left on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Gerard Flaitel was one of his companions. Duke Robert obtained permission for him and his retinue to continue on to Muslim-controlled Jerusalem. In Turkey Robert paid the required mussella (pilgrim tax). They arrived in time to spend Holy Week in Jerusalem. On their return through Asia Minor, Duke Robert fell ill while they were in Nicaea, and died there about 2 July. As he lay dying Gerard was asked to take possession of a Holy relic Duke Robert acquired in Jerusalem, reputedly a finger-bone of Saint Stephen, and to make a gift of it to the abbey or monastery of his choosing.

Gerard returned to Normandy and became a monk at the Abbey of St. Wandrille taking the relic with him. He died after 1047.

While the name of his wife (or wives) is not known Gerard Flaitel had the following children:

1. William Flaitel, Bishop of Évreux (d. 1066)

2. Ermengarde, wife of Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville

3. Basilla, wife of Ralph de Gacé, son of Robert, Archbishop of Rouen; and second marriage to Hugh de Gournay.

4. Anscherius

Gerard married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Giffard,_Lord_of_Longueville

Walter was married to Ermengarde, daughter of Gerard Flaitel. Walter and Ermengarde were the parents of:

1. Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham.

2. William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester.

3. Rohese Giffard (d. aft. 1113), married Richard fitz Gilbert, Lord of Clare.

4. Lora Giffard, married Sir Robert de Hampden.

Buried:
Grave location, biography, and church photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=159905323

Ermentrude married Walter de Giffard, 3rd Count of Longueville. Walter (son of Osborne de Bolbec, 2nd Count of Longueville and Aveline) was born ca 1010, Longueville, Normandy, France; died ca 1085, Staffordshire, England; was buried , St Mary and St Chad Churchyard, Brewood, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohese_Giffard

Sometimes called Rose or Rohais, she was a Norman noblewoman in the late 11th and early 12th century.

Giffard was the daughter of Walter Giffard. Her maternal grandfather was Gerard Fleitel. Walter Giffard was the lord of Longueville-sur-Scie in upper Normandy.

Giffard was the wife of Richard fitzGilbert, the son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne. Domesday Book records him as the eighth richest landowner in England, with lands centered on two locations ? lands in Kent and Surrey grouped around Tonbridge and lands in Essex and Suffolk grouped around Clare.

Their children were Roger, Gilbert, Walter, Robert, Richard,Godfrey, Rohese (or Rohais), and Adelisa. Roger received the Norman lands after Richard FitzGilbert's death, Gilbert received his father's English lands, Walter was given a Welsh lordship by King Henry I of England, and Robert was given lands around London by King Henry I. Richard became a monk at Bec Abbey and was later abbot of Ely Abbey. The last son, Godfrey, is known only from his burial at Clare. Rohais married Eudo Dapifer and Adelisa married Walter Tire.

Giffard occurs in Domesday Book as a landowner in her own right. Richard died between 1085 and 1087, as his son Gilbert witnesses a charter of King William II of England in that year. Rohese survived him and was still alive in 1113, when she gave a gift to St Neot's Priory which had been founded as a dependent priory of Bec on Rohese's own manor of Eynesbury. Rohese's descendants eventually were the heirs to the lands held by her father, receiving half the estates of Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire in the reign of King Richard I of England (r. 1189-1199).

Buried:
Grave location, biography, and graveyard photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=159273740

Rohese married Richard Fitz Gilbert, 1st Lord of Clare. Richard was born ca 1035, Brionne, Normandy, France; died 1090, Huntingdonshire, England; was buried , St. Neots Priory, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Fitz_Richard

Gilbert, born before 1066, was the second son and an heir of Richard Fitz Gilbert of Clare and Rohese Giffard. He succeeded to his father's possessions in England in 1088 when his father retired to a monastery;his brother, Roger Fitz Richard, inherited his father's lands in Normandy. That same year he, along with his brother Roger, fortified his castle at Tonbridge against the forces of King William Rufus. But his castle was stormed, Gilbert was wounded and taken prisoner. However he and his brother were in attendance on King William Rufus at his death in August 1100. He was with Henry I at his Christmas court at Westminster in 1101.

In 1110, King Henry I took Cardigan from Owain ap Cadwgan and gave the Lordship of Cardigan, including Cardigan Castle to Gilbert Fitz Richard. Gilbert founded the Clunic priory at Stoke-by-Clare, Suffolk. He died in or before 1117.

About 1088, Gilbert married Adeliza/Alice de Claremont, daughter of Hugh, Count of Clermont, and Margaret de Roucy. Gilbert and Adeliza had at least eight children:

1. Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1136.

2. Gilbert Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1148, 1st Earl of Pembroke.

3. Baldwin Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1154, m. Adeline de Rollos.

4. Adelize/Alice de Clare, d. 1163, m. (ca. 1105), Aubrey II de Vere, son of Aubrey I de Vere and Beatrice. She had 9 children and in her widowhood was a paid pensioner at St. Osyth's, Chich, Essex.

5. Hervey de Clare, Lord of Montmorency.

6. Walter de Clare, d. 1149.

7. Margaret de Clare, d. 1185, m. (ca. 1108), Sir William de Montfitchet, Lord of Stansted Mountfitchet.

8. Rohese de Clare, d. 1149, m. (ca. 1130), Baderon of Monmouth

Buried:
Grave location, biography, and historical drawing of the priory:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=159792533

Gilbert married Adeliza de Clermont. Adeliza (daughter of Hugh de Breteuilde, 4th Count of Clermont and Marguerite de Ramerupt, Dame de Roucy) was born ca 1058, Northamptonshire, England; died ca 1125, England. [Group Sheet]