Gamel Fitz Gerneber de Eland

• Preferred Name: Gamel Fitz Gerneber de Eland^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1087 in England with note: Standardized
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: with note: Description: Thane
  
• FSID: 9QQC-LK1
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Gamel-Fitz-Gerneber/6000000006870485628?through=6000000006870549427
  
• Birth: 1050 in Thornhill, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.6599 LONG: E1.6327 with note: Standardized
  
• Notes:

  === Gamel Info ===
  !He was also living in 1086.
  
  " Gamel Info
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  A land holder in the Calder Valley (Auth. Domesday Book).
  
  Ancient rune stones, a link with the balladic legend 'Robyn Hode' and a rich tapestry of wealthy land owning Yorkshire families, set against the background of early English history. The Thornhills may have descended from Gerneber an Anglo-Danish land-holder b. abt. 1025. Gerneber's son was Gamel b. ca. 1050. This Gamel appears often as a land holder of the Calder Valley in the Domesday Book. In fact Gamel [Gamal] was a Yorkshire magnate of the time of Earl Tostig [1055-1065]. Thornhill boasts a runic inscription known as the Thornhill Runes which attests to the pre-Christian culture of the Anglo-Danish settlers. Later in the 1300's this family held the neighbouring sub-manor of Thornhill to the sub-manor of Midgley. The Arms of Midgley and Thornhill are very similar in their early form only differing in their tinctures.7
  
  Thornhill Arms Early Midgley Arms
  Gules two bars gemelle and a chief Or. Sable two bars gemelle and a chief Or.
  
  Gamel had four sons, Leising or Leisingus [had a son, Henry de Eland], Ulf, b. abt. 1075, Orm [Lord of Welbure] andGamelbar, all of whom appear in the D.B. All these names are particularly Danish, which indicates their hold over the Anglian lands after the Danes settled to farming. Orm is known from an inscription on the Kirkdale sundial in North Yorkshire where his estate lay. Leisingus managed the Eland Estates for Ilbert de Laci of Pontefract. Leising held the Manor of Rochdale but resided at Eland Hall.
  
  Ulf had a son Essulf born ca.1100 who died after 1189. Essulf had four sons who were given the second name or surname, Thornhill. In 1100 a law was passed in England that every person must have a second name, here the topographical name derived from the place of birth, Thornhill and Tong was chosen by Essulf. The manor of Shelf, north-east of Halifax was granted to the Thornhill family. This occurred after the 2nd Earl Warrene's [d. 1138] tenure of the Wakefield Manor, for he had been previously granted the Shelf Manor.
  
  The children of Essulf :
  1. Elias de Thornhill b. 1124 d. 1195
  2. Jordan de Thornhill b.1124/5 d. 1195 married 1148 to Ethelrida b. 1125 d. 1174 they had 8 children.
  3. Richard de Tong b. ca.1125

1. Ulf fitz Gamel of Thornhill , b. ABT 1075 in Thornhill, Yorkshire, England     d. 1166 in Hazelwood, Derbyshire, England

1. Title: Baildon and the Baildons; a history of a Yorkshire manor and family
   Author: pages 15-34 gives great detail of the Ancient Thornhill line etc...page 26 has Jordan, and his wife was Isabel de Warenne...
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/baildonbaildonsh02bail#page/44/mode/2up;