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Birth:          BEF 1044 Gournay-en-Bray, Normandy
Death:          AFT 1092 Holy Lands
Burial:         Abbey of Bec, Normandy

Notes
fabpedigree.com/s037/f751094.htm
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I04644
[From "The Origin of Some Anglo-Norman Families"] concerning origin of Gournay 
family:

Gournay-en-Bray - This was a fortified town. The family is so well known that it is 
sufficient to refer to the documents in Daniel Gurney, "Record of the House of 
Goournai".

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The following is excerpted from a post to SGM, 20 Jan 2003, by Douglas Richardson:

From: Douglas Richardson (royalancestry AT msn.com)
Subject: Gournay Family Pedigree [Corrected Post]
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2003-01-20 07:48:21 PST

GOURNAY FAMILY

1. HUGH DE GOURNAY, seigneur of Gournay-en-Brie, Normandy, Domesday tenant of 
Liston, Ardley, and Fordham, Essex, son and heir. He married BASILE FLAITEL, widow 
of Raoul de Gace, Constable of Normandy, and daughter of Gerard Flaitel. Her 
maritagium was the castle of Ecouche, near Falaise in Normandy. They had two sons, 
Gerard and Hugh. In 1077, he witnessed the foundation charter of the monastery of 
St. Stephens at Caen by King William the Conqueror and in 1082 the foundation 
charter of the nunnery of Holy Trinity Caen by King William the Conqueror and his 
wife, Queen Maud. Hugh and his wife, Basile, retired to the Abbey of Bec in France c. 
1082 with her niece, Ansfride. They were still living c. 1093, when St. Anselm was 
consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury. A letter from Anselm to Basile has been 
preserved. He predeceased his wife. Both are buried at the Abbey of Bec.

Parents
DE GOURNAY Hugh III (ABT 1015 - 1074)
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Siblings
DE GOURNAY Hugh IV (BEF 1044 - AFT 1092)

Marriage To DE FLEITEL Basilia (ABT 1044 - AFT 1093)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE FLEITEL Gerhard (ABT  985 - )
D'EVEREUX Herleve (ABT  995 - )

Children by DE FLEITEL Basilia ABT 1044 - AFT 1093
DE GOURNAY Gerard (1066 - 1104)

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