Ancestry of Elizabeth de Gournai

The ancestry of Elizabeth de Gournai is very interesting and is included here purely for historical interest:

Pepin of Landen born before the year 608. He had:

Grimold, he had:

Pepin of Heristal, he had:

Charles Martel, King of France…A.D. 69 (8). He had:

Pepin the Short, died A.D. 768. He had:

Charlemagne, Emperor of the West, was born 2 April 742 at Aix-le-Chappelle. He died in the year 814. His son was Louis I, known as Louis the Pious, King of France.

Louis I (The Pious), King of France. He had:

Charles II (The Bald), King of France. His daughter, Judith, married Count Baldwin I (of the Iron Arm). They had:

Baldwin II, Count of Flanders. They had:

Arnolph the Great, Count of Flanders. He had:

Baldwin III, Count of Flanders. He had:

Arnolph III, Fifth Count of Flanders. He had:

Baldwin IV, Sixth Count of Flanders. He had:

Baldwin V, Seventh Count of Flanders, married Princess Adela, daughter of King Robert the Pious, son of Hugh Capet, King of France. They had daughter, Matilda, who married William the Conqueror of England and seventh Duke of Normandy in A.D. 1053. Queen Matilda was also descended from Alfred the Great and father of William who was first cousin of Edward the Confessor. Their daughter was:

Princess Gundred, who married William de Warren, created Earl of Surrey. He was a Norman Baron of Danish descent who accompanied William the Conqueror on his expedition to England and took and important part in the Battle of Hastings, fought 14 October 1066. For his valor that day, he was rewarded with lands in Sussex, Surrey, Norfolk and Suffolk. He married the above princess, who was the fourth daughter of William the Conqueror and Matilda, and became the progenitor of the Earl of Warren and Surrey. At Lewis, near Newhaven, he was buried and here “The Great Earl” and Princess Gundred founded a “glorious Priory to the Glory of God.” They had:

Edith de Warren, who married Gerard, Baron de Gournai. He was the son of Hugh de Gournai and Basilia, daughter of Gerard Flaital and sister of William, bishop of Evreaux. He, with his father, fought in the battles of Mortimer and Hastings. His father became a monk in the Benedictine Abbey of (Rec…). Gerard de Gournai died in Palestine in 1096. Their son was:

Hugh, Baron de Gournai, who married Lady Julia Dumpmartin, sister of Reginald, Count de Boulogne. He lost his Norman estates through political troubles and took refuge in England. He is buried in Langley Abbey, Norfolk. He was Lord of Beverston. He had:

Anselm de Gournai, Lord of Beverston. He had:

Robert de Gournai, Lord of Beverston. He had:

Anselm de Gournai, Lord of Beverston. He had:

John de Gournai, Lord of Beverston, who married Lady Olivia, daughter of Henry Lovel, Baron of C…Cary. They had:

Elizabeth de Gournai, who married John Ap Adam.