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Birth:          ABT 1091 Gournay-en-Braym, Normandy
Death:          1181 Palestine
Cause of Death: died on Crusade

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I03352
[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, 11 Sep 2002, by Douglas Richardson:

From: Douglas Richardson (royalancestry AT msn.com)
Subject: Re: Wife of Hugh II de Gournay
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2002-09-11 22:06:28 PST

GOURNAY FAMILY

1. HUGH DE GOURNAY, of Caister, Norfolk, Mapledurham, co. Oxford, seigneur of 
Gournay-en-Brie, Gaillefontaine, etc., son and heir, born about 1091 (of full age in 
1112). During his minority, he was raised by King Henry I and his lands were 
administered by Drew de Monceaux, his step-father. He married (lst) BEATRICE DE 
VERMANDOIS, daughter of Hugh le Grand, Count of Vermandois and Valois, Count of 
Amiens and Crepy, by Alix, daughter and heiress of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois 
and Valois. They had one son, Hugh (d.y.). He joined Stephen, Count of Aumale, and 
others in 1118, in an attempt to place William Clito, son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, 
on the throne. He seised the castle of Plesssis and ravaged Norman terrritory. King 
Henry I crushed the revolt at Noyon in 1119, after which he submitted and was 
pardoned. In 1134 King Stephen granted him the manors of Wendover, co. 
Buckingham and Houghton Regis, co. Bedford. Beatrice was living 1144. In the 
period, 1147/55, he witnessed a charter for his nephew, Roger de Mowbray. In 1147 
he accompanied King Louis VII of France to the Holy Land. This crusade was 
unsuccessful and returned in 1149. He married (2nd) MILLICENT (or MELISENDE) DE 
COUCY, widow of Aleaume Fitz Adam, Governor of the Citadel of Amiens, daughter of 
Thomas de Coucy (or de Marle) (descendant of Charlemagne), seigneur of Coucy, 
Marle, de la Fere and Boves, Count of Amiens, by his 2nd wife, Melisende de Crecy, 
daughter and heiress of Guy de Montlhery, Chatelain de la Ferte. They had two sons, 
Gerard and Hugh, and one daughter, Aidieve (wife of Nicholas de Stuteville, of 
Kimberley, Norfolk). He and his 2nd wife were benefactors of the Abbey of Bec. They 
founded the Abbey of Gaillefontaine in the period, 1144/64. HUGH DE GOURNAY 
died in 1181, said to be ;very old.; His wife survived him.

Parents
DE GOURNAY Gerard (1066 - 1104)
DE WARENNE Edith (Ediva) (ABT 1076 - )

Siblings
DE GOURNAY Hugh V (ABT 1091 - 1181)
DE GOURNAY Gundred (ABT 1097 - 1155)

Marriage To DE COUCY Melesinde (1120 - AFT 1181)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE COUCY Thomas (1073 - 1131)
DE CRECY Melisende (ABT 1084 - AFT 1147)

Children by DE COUCY Melesinde 1120 - AFT 1181
DE GOURNAY Hugh VI (ABT 1148 - 24 Oct 1214)

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