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Birth:          BEF 1180 Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
Death:          1242 

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Supported barons against King John. constituted Earl of Lincoln by King Louis of 
France.

Gilbert de Gant, then in minority at the death of his father about 1193, and in ward to 
William de Stutevill. In the last year of King John's reign [1216], this Gilbert adhering 
to the barons, was constituted Earl of Lincoln, by Lewis of France, at that time in 
London, and at the head of the baronial party, and was despatched into 
Nottinghamshire to oppose the royalists. Shortly after which, assisted by Robert de 
Ropesle, he reduced the city of Lincoln, but at the subsequent battle, the baronial 
force being totally broken, he was taken prisoner and never after assumed the title of 
Earl of Lincoln, which dignity was then conferred upon Randall de Meschines, 
surnamed Blundaville, Earl of Chester. This ex-earl d. in 1241, leaving issue, Gilbert 
and Julian. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, 
Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 227, Gant, Earls of Lincoln]

Parents
DE GAUNT Robert (ABT 1122 - 1191)
D'AUBIGNY Gunnora (ABT 1160 - AFT 1198)

Siblings
DE GAUNT Gilbert (BEF 1180 - 1242)

Marriage To D'AUBIGNY [D'ALBINI] Alice (ABT 1182 - )
    m.  

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Children by D'AUBIGNY [D'ALBINI] Alice ABT 1182 - 
DE GAUNT Gilbert (ABT 1205 - 5 Jan 1274)

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