Gilbert of Ghent
Gilbert of Ghent (towards 1120 - 1156), Count de Lincoln, was a partisan of the king Etienne of England in the civil war for the throne of England, which opposed it to Mathilde Emperesse.
He was the son of Walter de Gant and Maud of Brittany, girl of Etienne Ier de Penthièvre. He was thus a nephew of Alain the Black.
He was made count de Lincoln by the king Etienne of England, although Guillaume de Roumare actually had the county. He nevertheless was known by this title as its mention in the charters of the time proves it: “ count de Lincolne Gislebert II of Ghent ”. It was made prisoner with the king with the battles of Lincoln in 1141.
Ranulf de Gernon, powerful the Count de Chester, would have it force to marry his/her niece, rams Hawise (Agnes) of Roumare, girl and heiress of Guillaume de Roumare . It is of swears uxoris (in right of its wife) which it would have entered in possession of the county of Lincoln. He became titular count de Lincoln in 1147.
He founded, as a count de Lincoln, the abbey of Rufford towards 1148 in the Nottinghamshire.
Family and descent
He married Rohaise de Clare, girl of Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, Lord de Clare and Count d' Hertford, and of Adelaide of Meschines.In second weddings, he would have married Hawise (Agnes) of Roumare
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