NINTH GENERATION

247. GILBERT of Brionne died in 1040. Known as "Crispin"; Count of Brionne. Murdered by the sone of Giroie.

GILBERT of Brionne had the following children:

child317 i. Baldwin FITZGILBERT died in 1090. Seigneur de Meules and du Sap in Normandy; Lord of Okehampton, Devon. After the murder of his father he and his brother Richard took refuge at the Court of the Count of Flanders. Duke William afterwards retored, to Baldwin, Meules and Sap. He also received from the Conqueror some 160 lordships in Devon Hemington, Porlock, and Apley in Somerset and Iwerne in Dorset. Okehampton was the capital seat of his barony. Sheriff of Devon 1080-1086. (From Complete Peerage, Vol IV:308-09)
child+318 ii. Richard FITZGILBERT de Clare.

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