Gent (noble family)

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The house of the burgraves of Ghent was a family of the Belgian and French nobility . It first appeared as the Burgrave of Ghent at the beginning of the 11th century. The loss of the burgraviate was compensated by the acquisition of the county of Guînes in 1142. Guînes in turn was lost in 1331, while the Coucy reign was acquired around the same time .

The best-known member of the family is Enguerrand VII. De Coucy (1339-1397), Earl of Bedford , Count of Soissons and son-in-law of the English King Edward III. The family died out with his daughters in 1411.

Another family was called "von Gent" and was probably closely related to the Burgraves of Ghent, although this has not yet been specified. It includes the Lords and Counts of Aalst, but above all Gilbert de Gant, 1st Earl of Lincoln and his relatives, who played an important role in England in the 12th century.

Master list (extract)

The Burgraves of Ghent

  1. Lambert I, burgrave of Ghent around 1010-1031 / 34
    1. Folkard I, 1031 / 34-1073
      1. Lambert II, 1071 Burgrave of Ghent
        1. ? Wenemar I, Burgrave of Ghent 1088/1118, ⚭ Gisèle de Guînes, daughter of Baudouin I, Count of Guînes ( House of Guînes )
          1. Arnould I († 1169), 1142 Count of Guînes, ⚭ Mahaut de Saint-Omer, daughter of Guillaume, Châtelain de Saint-Omer - descendants see below
          2. Siger I, burgrave of Ghent 1114/22
            1. Alice († before 1154), heiress of the burgraviate of Ghent, ⚭ Hugo von Encre, burgrave of Ghent 1139
          3. Wenemar II, burgrave of Ghent 1114/35

The Counts of Guînes

  1. Arnould I († 1169), 1142 Count of Guînes, ⚭ Mahaut de Saint-Omer, daughter of Guillaume, Châtelain de Saint-Omer - ancestors see above
    1. Baudouin II († 1205), 1169 Comte de Guînes, ⚭ Christine d'Ardres, heir to Arnould IV. De Marcq, Seigneur d ' Ardres , and Adélide d'Ardres
      1. Arnould II († 1220), 1177 Seigneur d'Ardres, 1203 Châtelain de Bourbourg , 1205 Comte de Guînes, ⚭ Béatrix de Bourbourg († 1214), heiress of Châtellenie Bourbourg and von Aalst , daughter of Walter
      2. Baudouin III. († 1244), 1220 Comte de Guînes, Châtelain de Bourbourg, Seigneur d'Ardres, ⚭ Mahaut de Fiennes, daughter of Guillaume, Seigneur de Fiennes et de Tingry
        1. Arnould III. († after 1282), 1244 Comte de Guînes, Châtelain de Bourbourg, Seigneur d'Ardres, ⚭ Alix de Coucy, daughter of Enguerrand III. de Coucy ( House of Boves ) and Marie de Montmirail
          1. Baudouin de Guînes († after 1293), Châtelain de Bourbourg, Seigneur d'Ardres, ⚭ Jeanne de Montmorency, daughter of Mathieu III. de Montmorency ( tribe list of the Montmorency )
            1. Jeanne († 1331), Comtesse de Guînes, ⚭ Jean de Brienne , Count of Eu (X 1302), ( House of Brienne )
          2. Enguerrand V. de Guînes († after 1321), Seigneur de Coucy, de La Fère , de Marle , d' Oisy , de Montmirail et de Condé-en-Brie , ⚭ Christine Baillol, daughter of Thomas - descendants see below
          3. Jean de Guînes († after 1323), 1311 Vice Count of Meaux , Seigneur de La Ferté-Gaucher et de La Ferté-Anicoul , de Dronay , de Boissy etc., ⚭ Jeanne de Chantilly, daughter of Guillaume
            1. Jeanne, ⚭ Gaucher VI. de Châtillon, Seigneur de Châtillon-sur-Marne († 1377), ( House of Châtillon )
        2. Adélvie, ⚭ Guillaume, Châtealin de Saint-Omer , Comte de Fauquembergues
      3. Mahaut († 1262), ⚭ Hugues V. de Châtillon , Count of Blois and Saint-Pol († 1248), ( House of Châtillon )
    2. Adelide, ⚭ Hugo, Châtelain de Lille 1156/99

The lords of Coucy

  1. Enguerrand V. de Guînes († after 1321), Seigneur de Coucy, de La Fère , de Marle , d' Oisy , de Montmirail et de Condé-en-Brie , ⚭ Christine Baillol, daughter of Thomas - ancestors see above
    1. Guillaume de Coucy († 1335), Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle, de La Fère, d'Oisy et de Montmirail, ⚭ Isabeau de Châtillon called "de Saint-Pol" († 1360), daughter of Guy III. , Count of Saint-Pol , ( House of Châtillon )
      1. Enguerrand VI. († 1346), 1335 Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle, de La Fère et d'Oisy, ⚭ Katharina von Österreich († 1349), daughter of Leopold I , Duke of Austria , ( Habsburg )
        1. Enguerrand VII. De Coucy († 1397), 1347 Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle etc., 1365 Earl of Bedford , Count of Soissons , ⚭ I Isabella of England († 1379), daughter of Edward III. , King of England , ( House Plantagenet ), ⚭ II Isabella of Lorraine († after 1409), of Florennes , Rumigny , Martigny etc., daughter of John I , Duke of Lorraine , ( House Châtenois )
          1. (I) Marie († 1405), Comtesse de Soissons, heiress of Coucy and Oisy, ⚭ Heinrich von Bar (X 1396), ( House of Scarponnois )
          2. (I) Philippe, heiress of Morholm , Wirisdale etc., ⚭ Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford († 1392)
          3. (II) Isabeau († 1411), 1408 Comtesse de Soissons, zu Ferté etc., ⚭ Philip of Burgundy , Count of Nevers and Count of Rethel (X 1415), ( House of Burgundy )
      2. Raoul († shortly after 1389), 1347 Seigneur de Montmirail, de La Ferté-Gaucher, d ' Havraincourt , d' Encre , de Bailleul et de Hornoy , ⚭ Jeanne de Harcourt, daughter of Jean V, ( Harcourt House )
        1. Enguerrand († after 1392), Seigneur de Montmirail, d'Encre et de Havraincourt
        2. Raoul († 1425), 1415 Bishop of Noyon , Bishop of Metz
        3. Guillaume, Seigneur de Montmirail 1409/11
        4. Blanche († 1437), ⚭ Hugues, Count of Roucy and Braine († 1395), ( House of Pierrepont )
        5. Marguerite († after 1419), to Romeny-sur-Marne , ⚭ Guy de Nesle, Seigneur d ' Offemont et de Mello , ( House of Clermont )
      3. Aubert († 1388), 1347 Seigneur de Dronay, ⚭ Jeanne de Villesavoir, heiress of Droisy († 1392)
        1. Marie, zu Droisy, ⚭ I Gaucher de Mailly, ⚭ II Gaucher de Châtillon, Seigneur de Buisson , attested in 1391/95, ( House of Châtillon ), ⚭ III Jean de Lissac
        2. Isabeau († 1413), ⚭ Raoul de Raingeval, 1387/90 attested
    2. Enguerrand († 1344), Vicomte de Meaux, Seigneur de Condé-en-Brie, de La Ferté-Ancoul, d'Autreches etc., ⚭ Marie de Vienne, heiress von Rumpst and Schorisse (Escornaix), widow of Wilhelm II Flanders, Lord of Dendermonde , Viscount de Châteaudun , ( House Dampierre )

The Lords of Aalst

  1. Rudolf of Gent, attested in 1052; ⚭ Gisela (from Luxembourg), attested in 1052, † May 21, daughter of Count Friedrich im Moselgau and NN (von Hammerstein) ( Wigeriche )
    1. Baldwin of Gent, † 23/24. April 1082, Lord of Waas , Drongen and Ruiselede ; ⚭ Oda, † after 1096, nun in Voorst
      1. Balduin, X June 13, 1097 at the siege of Nicaea , knights of Gent , Aalst , Drongen, Waas and Ruiselede; ⚭ Matilde, † June 9
        1. Baldwin, attested in 1129, † 24./25. October; ⚭ Lutgarde, daughter of Walter (probably Walter van Grimberghe)
          1. Beatrix, † before 1160; ⚭ Henri, Châtelain de Bourbourg , † after 1162, son of Themard, Châtelain de Bourbourg, and Livildis, buried in the Abbey of Saint-Bertin
        2. Iwan, † August 8, 1145, Count of Aalst, Gent, Waas, Donghen and Liedekerke ; ⚭ before September 22, 1139 Laurette von Flandern, † probably 1175, daughter of Dietrich von Alsace , Count of Flanders , and Swanhilde, as a widow nun in Voorst, she married in 1150, divorced in 1152, Heinrich II. , Duke of Limburg , in third marriage 1152 Raoul I. le Vaillant , Count of Vermandois ( House of France-Vermandois ), in fourth marriage before 1159, divorced in 1163, Henry the Blind , Count of Namur and Count of Luxembourg ( House of Namur )
          1. Dirk von Aalst, * 1144, † April 20, 1166; ⚭ Laurette von Hainaut, † June 9, 1181, daughter of Baldwin IV. The builder , Count of Hainaut and Count of Namur, and Alice of Namur, ( House of Flanders ), she married Bouchard IV. De Montmorency in early January 1173 , Seigneur de Montmorency ( House Montmorency )
        3. ? Daughter , ⚭ NN van Dendermonde
          1. Daniel von Dendermonde, nepos from Count Iwan von Aalst
      2. Siger, 1086/96 attested
      3. Gilbert, testified in 1088
      4. Walter, † after 1088
      5. Gertrude, † 1138 in Jerusalem , buried in Saint-Audomer in Ardres ; ⚭ Arnaud (I.) Seigneur d'Ardres, † after 1136, son of Elbert (III.), Viscount (de Marchiennes ), and Adelais de Licques, buried in Saint-Audomer in Ardres
      6. Lutgarde, nun in Voorst
      7. ? Daughter , ⚭ Engelbert (IV.) Van Peteghem, † after 1135
    2. Rudolf (Raoul), X mid-1102 in the Holy Land , chamberlain ( camerarius ) of Flanders
    3. Giselbert von Gent, attested in 1058, presumably identical to Gilbert (von Gent), † probably 1095, Lord of Folkingham (see below)

The Earls of Lincoln

  1. Gilbert, † probably 1095, landowner in Rowbury Hundred ( Berkshire ), Church Hanborough and Ewelme ( Oxfordshire ), as well as numerous in Lincolnshire , Lord of Folkingham , probably identical with Giselbert van Gent, † after 1058 (see above); ⚭ Alix de Montfort-sur-Risle, † 1139, Dame de Montfort-sur-Risle, daughter of Hugues II. De Montfort ( house Bastembourg ) and NN de Beaufour, buried in Bardney Abbey
    1. Hugo (IV.) Of Gent, † probably after 1147, Seigneur de Montfort-sur-Risle, rose up against Henry I of England in September 1123 , was disinherited and imprisoned; ⚭ probably 1120 Adeline de Beaumont, daughter of Robert de Beaumont , Earl of Meulan , Earl of Leicester , and Elisabeth von Vermandois ( Capetian )
      1. Robert de Montfort, † 1178; ⚭ Clémence de Fougères, attested in 1194, daughter of Henri, Seigneur de Fougères ( House Fougères ), and Olive de Penthièvre
        1. Hugues de Montfort, † after 1189
        2. Robert de Montfort, † before 1189
      2. Waleran de Montfort, † probably after 1147
      3. Daughter ; ⚭ Richard of Gloucester, * 1120/25, † 1175, son of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester , and Mabel FitzRobert, Countess of Gloucester, Creully inherited from his mother ( House Plantagenet )
    2. Robert , 1140–1141 and 1142–1154 Chancellor of King Stephen , Dean of York
    3. Gilbert, † before his father
    4. Walter von Gent, † 1139, restored Bardney Abbey in 1115, founded Bridlington Priory , monk at Bardney Abbey; ⚭ Mathilde de Penthièvre, daughter of Stephen of Penthièvre , Count of Tréguier , 3rd Lord Richmond ( House of Rennes ), and Havise of Blois (called Havise of Guingamp)
      1. Gilbert de Gand , * probably 1120 in Bridlington , † 1156, buried probably in Bridlington Priory, 1147/48 Earl of Lincoln ; ⚭ Rohese de Clare, daughter of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare ( Clare (family) ) and Agnes / Alicia of Chester, she married Robert FitzRobert, Dapifer , in her second marriage (probably between 1157 and 1163)
        1. Alice de Gand, † 1185, buried in Bridlington; ⚭ Simon III. de Senlis , Earl of Huntingdon and Earl of Northampton , * probably 1138, † June 1184, son of Simon II. de Senlis , Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, and Isabelle de Beaumont, buried in St Andrew's Priory in Northampton
      2. Geoffrey de Gand, † probably 1150/56
      3. Robert de Gand, † probably 1191/92, buried in Vaudey Abbey ; ⚭ (1) Alice Paynell, widow of Richard de Courcy, daughter of William Paynel de Drax and Avice de Rumilly; ⚭ (2) Gunnora de Albini Brito, daughter of Ralph de Albini Brito (d'Aubigny) and Sibylle de Valoignes, she was second married to Nicholas de Stuteville († 1217/18) ( Stuteville )
        1. (1) Avice de Gand; ⚭ Robert (de Berkeley), † probably 1195, son of Robert Fitzharding and Eva
        2. (2) Gilbert de Gand, † 1242, probably Titular Earl of Lincoln ; ⚭ NN
          1. Robert de Gaunt, † before his father
          2. Gilbert de Gaunt of Folkingham, † January 5, 1274 in Folkingham, buried in Bridlington, NN
            1. Margaret; ⚭ William de Kerdeston of Kerdiston
              1. Roger de Kerdeston, Lord Kerdestin, 1332 Member of Parliament,
            2. Gilbert de Gaunt, * probably 1249, † 1298, Lord Gaunt; ⚭ before January 26, 1274 Lora de Baliol, † 1309, daughter of Henry de Baliol of Cavers, Chamberlain of Scotland , and Lorette de Valoignes ( House of Balliol )
            3. Nichole, † 1284, buried in Hazelwood Chapel near Tadcaster ; ⚭ 1273 or earlier Piers de Maulay of Mulgrave and Doncaster , Yorkshire , * July 22, 1249, † September 6, 1308, Lord Maulay, son of Piers de Maulay,
            4. Julienne, * before 1258, † after 1311
          3. Gunnor; ⚭ Ralph de Sucheville
      4. Baldwin de Gand, probably attested in 1139/47
      5. Alice de Gand; ⚭ (1) Ilbert de Lacy, 3rd Baron of Pontefract , 3rd Lord of Bowland, captured at the Battle of Lincoln (1141) , † between February 1141 and May 1143, son of Robert de Lacy and Matilda, probably buried in Pontefract Priory ( De Lacy ); ⚭ (2) probably between February 1141 and June 20, 1143, Roger de Mowbray , † late 1187/1188, son of Nele (Nigel) d'Aubigny and Gundred de Gournay, ( Mowbray house )
      6. ? Agnes; ⚭ William de Mohun, 1st Earl of Somerset , † probably 1155, son of William de Mohun
      7. Matilda de Gand; ⚭ William de Welle of Wells and Claxby, Norfolk, son of Walter FitzRademer
    5. Henri
    6. Ralph
    7. ? Emma de Gant ,; ⚭ Alan de Percy, 2nd Baron of Topcliffe, † probably between 1130 and July 1138, son of William de Percy and Emma de Port
    8. Daughter , † after 1102 in the Holy Land ; ⚭ Ivo de Grandmesnil , † after 1102 in the Holy Land, son of Hugues de Grandmesnil and Adelise de Beaumont-sur-Oise ( Grandmesnil )
    9. Daughter ; ⚭ Baldwin

literature

Web links

  • Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Châtelains de Gand ( online )
  • Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Earls of Lincoln 1147/48 (Gand) ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Havise de Blois was a daughter of Count Theobald III. from Blois ( Blois House )
  2. ↑ Agnes / Alicia of Chester was a daughter of Ranulph le Meschin, 1st Earl of Chester , and Lucy of Bolingbroke , who in turn was the mother of William de Roumare, 1st Earl of Lincoln , the predecessor of Gilbert de Gands