Ralph de , Sire d'Alost GANT

                   Gilbert de Gant, son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, by Maud, sister ofWilliam the Conqueror, accompanied his uncle into England and,participating in the triumph of Hastings, obtained a grant of the landsof a Danish proprietor named Tour, with numerous other lordships. ThisGilbert happened to be at York, anno 1069, and had a narrow escape whenthe Danes in great force, on behalf of Edgar Etheling, entered the mouthof the Humber and, marching upon that city, committed lamentabledestruction by fire and sword, there being more than 3,000 Normans slain.Like most of the great lords of his time, Gilbert de Gant disgorged tothe church a part of the spoil which he had seized, and amongst otheracts of piety restored Bardney Abbey, co. Lincoln, which had been utterlydestroyed many years before by the Pagan Danes, Inquar and Hubba. He m,Alice, dau. of Hugh de Montfort, and had issue, Hugh, who assumed thename Montfort; Walter, his successor; Robert, Lord Chancellor of England,anno 1153; and Emma, m. to Alan, Lord Percy. This great feudal chief d.in the reign of William Rufus. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant,Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p.227, Gant, Earls of Lincoln]

NOTE: Both Burke and Brian Tompsett agree that Baldwin, [6th] Count ofFlanders, was Gilbert's father. However, I cannot find any reference toWilliam the Conqueror having a sister named Maud - the only documentedsister I find is Adelaide. Brian Tompsett shows Baldwin VI "thePeaceable," Count of Flanders and Artois, and Richilda, Countess ofHainault and Namur, as the parents of Gilbert, and that's what I'msticking with.