Matilda de Bretagne

• Preferred Name: Matilda de Bretagne^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Burial: AFT 21 APR 1135 in Bardney, Lincolnshire, England at LATI: N3.2183 LONG: E0.3079
  
• FSID: G3DF-378
  
• Birth: ABT 1090 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France at LATI: N8.108 LONG: E1.6767
  
• AFN: with note: Description: MQD7-K9
  
• Death: 21 APR 1135 in Rouen, Haute-Normandie, France at LATI: N9.5 LONG: E0
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “WALTER DE GANT (or GAUNT), of Folkingham and Aisthorpe, Lincolnshire, Stanton (in Fen Stanton), Huntingdonshire, Rufford and Eakring, Nottinghamshire, Burley, Rutland, etc., son and heir, of age before 1113 or 1114. He married before 1120 MAUD OF BRITTANY, daughter of Stephen (or Etienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond, by his wife, Hawise [see RICHMOND 4 for her ancestry]. Her maritagm include the manor of Swaledale, Yorkshire.
  
  They had six sons, Gilbert [Earl of Lincoln], Robert, Philip, Baldwin [Canon of Bridlington], Geoffrey, and possibly Walter [Canon of Oseney, Abbot of Waltham], and three daughters, Alice, Agnes, and (wife of William Fitz Walter). He founded Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire in 1113 or 1114.
  He confirmed his father's gift to Bardney Abbey, Lincolnshire in 1115. He was a member of the council of King Henry I in 1121 or 1122 and Sept. 1131. He was present at the Easter court of King Stephen in 1136. He was a commander at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. WALTER DE GANT died as a monk at Bardney Abbey, Yorkshire in 1139.
  
  Children of Walter de Gant, by Maud of Brittany:
  i. GILBERT DE GANT, of Folkingham, Lincolnshire, Stanton (in Fen Stanton), Huntingdonshire, Burley, Rutland, etc., son and heir, born at Bridlington about 1120. In the period, 1139-1149, he confirmed his father's gift of land to Hausgot de Eakring. He fought on the side of King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in Feb. 1140/1, where he was taken prisoner by Ranulph, Earl of Chester. He married ROHESE DE CLARE, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert, of Clare, Suffolk, by Alice, daughter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester [see CLARE 3 for her ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alice. In 1147 he claimed the honour of Pontefract against Henry de Lacy, and, in the fighting which ensued, Pontefract Priory was burned down and Gilbert was excommunicated. He was created Earl of Lincoln c.1148. About 1148, as Earl of Lincoln, he founded Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire. In the period, 1148-53, he granted Rufford Abbey all the land which Ralph son of Rainger held of him in Cratela, Nottinghamshire less a bovate, in exchange for a carucate of land in Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire. In the period, 1148-66, his wife, Rohese confirmed to the monks of Kirkstead the donation of Ralph Fitz Gilbert of land at Scampton, Lincolnshire which her husband, Earl Gilbert, gave her in dower. In the period, c.1148-56, he gave four carucates of land in Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire to William Basset. In the period, 1148-56, he granted Herbert Fitz Adelard land at Fenton and Walcot, Lincolnshire. In the period, 1148-56, he granted Tero' Fitz Malger half of Speeton, Yorkshire. He was a benefactor to Bardney, Bridlington, Kirkstead, Rievaulx, Sempingham, and Thornton. He also gave the monks of Biham a better site for their abbey at Vaudey in Edenham, Lincolnshire. GILBERT DE GANT, Earl of Lincoln, died in 1156, requesting his burial at Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire. In the period, 1156-63, his widow, Rohese, granted land in Cradey in free alms to Rufford Priory, except for the service due to her from Hugh Fitz Ralph. She married (2nd) before 1163 ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Ilkley, Yorkshire, South Elkington, Lincolnshire, etc., Steward to William de Percy, son of Robert Fitz Fulk, of Ilkley, Yorkshire, South Elkington, Lincolnshire, etc., Steward to William de Percy, by Alice, daughter of Herbert de Saint Quintin. They had two daughters, Margaret (wife of William de Kyme) and Rohese (or Rose). About 1148 he granted Sallay Abbey, Yorkshire two bovates in Ilkley, Yorkshire and two assarts. At an unknown date, he and his wife, Countess Rohese, granted to Thomas Fitz Wigot all his father's lands in Scampton, Lincolnshire.
  
  Notes and sources moved to "collaborate-notes"
  
  My Maternal 26th. Great English Grandfather, Walter de Gant, Lord of Folkingham, Earl of Lincolnshire
  Name: Walter de Gant, aka Gaunt or Gand, Lord of Folkingham, Earl of Lincolnshire
  Birth: about 1080 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
  Married: before 1106 in Lincolnshire, England to Mathilde de Pe
  
  My Maternal 25th. Great French Grandmother, Mathilde de Penthievre, of Brittany
  Name: Mathilde de Penthièvre, of Brittany, daughter of Étienne de Penthièvre, Comte de Bretagne, et d'Havoisee de Guingamp, and Havoise de Guingamp, Comtesse de Guingamp et de Sourdeval
  Birth: 1090 in
  
  === Medieval Lands Biography ===
  From Medieval Lands (downloaded 16 August 2018, dvmansur): MATHILDE de Penthièvre . A manuscript genealogy of the Gant family records that “Walterus”, son of “Giselbertus de Gaunt”, married “Matildam filiam comitis Stephani Britanniæ”, bringing “Swaldale” as dowry[413]. “Matildis filia consulis Stephani Britanniæ, uxor Walteri de Gaunt” donated property to Bridlington Priory by undated charter[414]. m WALTER de Gand, son of GILBERT de Gand & his wife Alice [Emma] de Montfort-sur-Risle (-1139, bur Bardney Abbey). He became a monk at Bardney.
  
  === !#21> Complete Peerage-v7-p672,-v9-p372, ===
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  === !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
  !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition L 143-24, 156-24
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.20, 22, 28, 31, 34; THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.82, 188; ROYAL ANCESTORS OF MAGNA CHARTA BARONS, P.50; THE COMPLETE PEERAGE (GS NUMBER 942 D24C) VOL 9 P.369-373;
  
  === Notes and sources from Royal Ancestry ===
  Anderson Genealogical Hist. of the House of Yvery 2 (1742): 50-58. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 1 (1817): 628-629 (undated charter of Walter de Gant son and heir of Gilbert de Gant), 629-630 (undated charter of Walter de Gaunt; charter is witnessed by his "nephew" [or "kinsman"' [nepote] William, Constable of Chester), 630 (charter of Walter de Gaunt dated 1125; charter names his father, Gilbert de Gaunt; charter witnessed by Robert de Gaunt), 630-632; 6(1) (1830): 287 (charter of Maud, wife of Walter de Gaunt, names her father, Count Stephen of Brittany [consulis Stephani Brittaniae]). Ingledew Hist. & Antiqs. of North Allerton (1858): 28-29. Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480 (chart). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #48. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). VCH Yorkshire N.R. 1 (1914): 240. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 427-428 (charter of Walter de Gant dated c.1125-30), 429 (testamentary grant of Walter de Gant dated 1130-39; grant witnessed by his wife, Maud), 432-436, 449 (writ of Walter de Gant dated 1119-30), 495-496 (notification by Walter de Gant dated c.1130-1139; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert), 496 (confirmation charter of Walter de Gant dated c.1130-1139). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 350-361. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 27) (1931): 1115; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 28) (1933): 9-10. CP. 7 (1929): 672-673 (sub Lincoln); 10 (1945): 780 (chart), 786-787 (sub Richmond). VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 112-119. Paget (1957) 242:1. Clay York Minster Fasti 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 124) (1959): 35. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 46. Fasti Parochiales 3 (Pubs. Yorkshire Arch. Soc. 129) (1967): 6, 8, 45-46, 91. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 75. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 17: Coventry & Lichfield 1183-1208 (1998): 140-141. Katharine Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 472. Yorkshire Arch. Journal 75 (2003): 63-76.
  
  Anderson Genealogical Hist. of the House of Yvery 2 (1742): 50-58. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 197-228 ("Gilbert de Gaunt, by deed confirmed to the said monks, 40 acres of land at Gudlacistovia in Swaffham], which Earl Alan his uncle had granted them; this Gilbert de Gaunt was Earl of Lincoln."). Dugdale Monasticon Auglicanum 1 (1817): 630-632; 6(1) (1830): 286 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln), 288. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 79-80. Top. & Gen. 1 (1846): 301-320. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Rievalle (Surtees Soc. 83) (1889): 47 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated pre-1148), 47-48 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1147-56). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 5 (1898): 122-123. Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480-482, 520-521 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1147-56; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Gant and Baldwin de Gant), 521-522 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1147-56; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Gant and Baldwin de Gant). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #48. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [11857 (Pipe Roll Soc. 35) (1913): 5 ([Elizabeth] widow of Robert Fitz Hugh de Tateshale, styled "niece of Earl Gilbert de Gant" Ineptis Comitis Gileberti de Ganti), 9 ([Elizabeth] widow of Robert Fitz Hugh styled "daughter of William Fitz Walter of Welle" [filia Willelmi filii Waken de Welle]). VCH Yorkshire N.R. 1 (1914): 240. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 429 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated c.1139-48; charter witnessed by his brothers, Geoffrey, Robert, and Baldwin), 429-430 (notification by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1150-56), 432-436, 449-50 (notification by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1158-53), 450 451 (confirmation charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-53), 454-455 (confirmation charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1155-56; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert de Gant), 469-470 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1142-47), 470-471 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1147), 471 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56), 471 (notification by Gilbert Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56), 471-472 (grant by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56), 493-494 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56). Stenton Documents illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 262 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1147-53). Stenton Transcripts of Charters reL to the Gilbertine Houses of Sixle, Ormsly, Catley, Bullington, and Alvingham (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 18) (1922): 42, 98. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 27) (1931): 41-45; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 28) (1933): 9-10. C.P. 7 (1929): 672-673 (sub Lincoln); 9 (1936): 369-372. McNulty Chartulary of the Cistercian Abby of St. Mary of Sallay in Craven 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 90) (1934): 78-79 (charter of Robert, Steward of William de Percy, dated c.1148). VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 112-119. Yorkshire Deeds 9 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 111) (1948): 162 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1148-56; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Gant, Robert de Gant, and Baldwin de Gant). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 204-205 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated c.1148-56). Paget (1957) 130:5. Davis King Stephen (1967): 138 ("Gilbert de Gant is usually stated to have been created earl of Lincoln c.1147-8, but in a charter which he gave to Bardney Abbey and addressed to Robert Bishop of Lincoln (elected 13 December, consecrated 19 December 1148), he still styles himself plain Gilbertus de Gaunt (B.M., Cotton MS, Vespasian E. xx, f. 54). In royal charters he may sometimes be confused with two other E

• m. BEF 1106 in Lincolnshire, England

1. Alice Gaunt, b. ABT 1109 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England     d. 24 APR 1197 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
2. Agnes de Gaunt, b. ABT 1110 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England     d. 1176 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
3. Robert Gaunt Lord of Aalst Folkingham and Bridlington, b. 1122 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England     d. 1191 in Lincolnshire, England
4. Gilbert de Gaunt 1st Earl of Lincoln, b. 1126 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England     d. 1156 in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England
5. William de Lindsay, b. 1106 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England     d. ABT 1147 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England

1. Title: Mathilde de Penthievre, Married Walter de Gant, Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_de_Gant;
   
2. Title: Find a Grave
   Author: Mahaut “Maud, Matilda” De Bretagne De Gaunt Birth: 1092 West Yorkshire, England Death: 21 Apr 1135 (aged 42–43) France Burial: Bardney Abbey, Bardney, West Lindsey District, Lincolnshire, England Memorial #: 167682631 Bio: Immediate Family: Daughter of Etienne I, comte de Penthièvre, Earl of Richmond and Havoise de Blois, dite "de Guingamp" Wife of Walter de Gaunt, Earl of Lincoln Mother of William de Lindsay, of Ercildun; Isabel (Elizabeth) de Gaunt; Daughter of Walter of Walter de Welle; Alice de Mowbray; Robert de Gant, Lord of Folkingham and 4 others Sister of Geoffroi II, comte de Bretagne; Marguerite De Kergolay; Olive de Penthievre de Bretagne; Théophanie de Penthièvre; Henri I de Bretagne, comte de Tréguier; Agnorie de Penthièvre; Alan IV, 1st Earl of Cornwall and Richmond and Daughter II of Stephen Half sister of Unknown Half-sister of Alan Count of Brittany Children of Walter de Gaunt and Mahaut de Bretagne Birth of William de Lindsay, of Ercildun Fordington, Lancast
   Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167682631/mahaut-de_gaunt#clipboard;
   
3. Title: Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
   Author: Citations [S2647] Unknown author, Wallop Family, p. 139. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 59-60. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 480. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 479.
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p354.htm#i10628;
   Note: Maud (Matilda) of Brittany1,2,3 Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 F, #10629 Father Etienne, Count of Brittany & Penthievre, Lord of Richmond2,4 d. 21 Apr 1135 Mother Hawise de Guincamp2,4 d. a 1135 Charts Some Descendants of Charlemagne Maud (Matilda) of Brittany married Walter de Gant, Baron of Folkingham, son of Gilbert de Gant, Lord Folkingham and Alice de Montfort, before 1120; They had 6 sons (Gilbert, Ewarl of Lincoln; Robert; Philip; Baldwin, Canon of Bridlington; Geoffrey; & possibly Wlater, Canon of Oseney, Abbot of Waltham) & 3 daughters (Alice, wife of Ilbert de Lacy, & of Sir Roger de Mowbray; Agnes, wife of William de Mohun, & of Richard le Scrope; & (unnamed), wife of William FitzWalter).2,3 Family Walter de Gant, Baron of Folkingham b. b 1092, d. 1139 Children Agnes de Gant+2 Robert de Gant+2 d. 1191 Alice de Gant+ Gilbert de Gant, 4th Earl of Lincoln+2 b. c 1120, d. 1156
   
4. Title: The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom by Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun03pauluoft#page/n13/mode/2up;
   Note: page 1-2 gives early history from Sir Walter de Lindsay down to William...page 6 etc...gives info on david and his family, page 7 info on Alicia who married Henry de Pinkeney. Page 3 gives info about Alienora de Limesi and her parents, Gerard de Limesi and Amicia de Bidun, on page 8-9 gives details of this person Margaret and her Husband David and there children...
   
5. Title: Wikipedia - Father - Étienne Ier de Penthièvre
   Publication: Name: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Ier_de_Penthi%C3%A8vre#Mariage_et_descendance;
   
6. Title: Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Frederick Lewis Weis, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co
   Author: Frederick Lewis Weiss, AR 156:24-34
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=XLqEWwa7fT8C&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=Sir+John+de+Bures,+I+20+June+1271+%E2%80%93+22+December+1350&source=bl&ots=pJxbQDyPzN&sig=ACfU3U0OVKtFKTonMpP21EGb9sA_JKlvcg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixz9exup_kAhVng-AKHZElD-oQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=sir%20John%20de%20Bures%2C%20d.%20bodington&f=false;
   
7. Title: The Medieval Lands Project, "MATHILDE de Penthièvre"
   Author: fmg.ac
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/brittcope.htm#MaudPenthievreMWalterGand;
   Note: MATHILDE de Penthièvre . A manuscript genealogy of the Gant family records that “Walterus”, son of “Giselbertus de Gaunt”, married “Matildam filiam comitis Stephani Britanniæ”, bringing “Swaldale” as dowry[413]. “Matildis filia consulis Stephani Britanniæ, uxor Walteri de Gaunt” donated property to Bridlington Priory by undated charter[414]. m WALTER de Gand, son of GILBERT de Gand & his wife Alice [Emma] de Montfort-sur-Risle (-1139, bur Bardney Abbey). He became a monk at Bardney.