Gerard de Cournay

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1099 or before.

Place of Death: on crusade.

Keats-Rohan (p. 492) states that Gerard died before Jerusalem was taken in 1099. Gurney (p. 69) states that he died on the journey, on the “8th of the ides of May”, but does not give the year. Cawley states that he died after 1104. Cooke (p. 8) gives about 1104.

Relationships

Father: Hugues de Gournay.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 492), by Power, by Gurney (p. 63), and by Cooke (p. 8), who states that Hugues was the son of another Hugues, who was the son or grandson of a third Hugues.

Mother: Basilie, daughter of Gerard Flaitel.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 492), by Power, by Gurney (p. 63), and by Cooke (p. 8).

Spouse: Edith de Warenne.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 492), by Power, by Gurney (p. 63-4), and by Cooke (p. 8).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Hugues (died 1180) married (1) Beatrix de Vermandois; married (2) Melisende de Coucy.

Gundred married Nigel de Mowbray.

References

Cawley, Charles. Gerard de Gournay, in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cooke, A.H. The Early History of Mapledurham (Oxford Record Society, 1925).

Gurney, David. The Record of the House of Gournay: Compiled from Original Documents (1845).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Power, Daniel. The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. (Cambridge University Press, 2004).