Gilbert de Brionne

Gilbert de Brionne († v. 1040) was Count of Have and perhaps of Brionne.

Biography

Wire of Godefroi de Brionne († a. 1023), grandson of the duke Richard I {{er}} of Normandy, it is one of the Richardides. He succeeds his half-brother Guillaume with the head of the Comté of Have on a dubious date. According to the historian Pierre Bauduin, it is the duke Robert Splendid the which names Gilbert count, with the beginning of the year 1030. What would explain why it leads an operation in Vimeu against its neighbor Enguerrand I {{er}} of Ponthieu during the same time. However Robert de Torigni place the transfer of the county of Have little time before the death of Gilbert about 1040.

Moreover, Gilbert was perhaps count de Brionne. Orderic Vital attests it but the history of this county appears osbcure. What is in any case certain, it is that since 1032, Gilbert is entitled count without the historians being able to determine his territorial spring.

Enemy of the Family Giroie, it clings with her for the control of the Pays of Ouche. With died of Giroie Old the, it tries to remove Montreuil-l' Argillé with its heirs.

Named tutor of Guillaume Bastard the (later the Conqueror ), after the assassination of the duke Alain III of Brittany, Gilbert is assassinated about 1040 by Robert, wire of Giroie on the instigation of Raoul de Gacé , .

Descent

He had at least two wire with his wife, whose identity is unknown:

Richard de Bienfaite (in English: Richard Fitz Gilbert) , lord of Bienfaite and Orbec, then Lord de Clare and of Tonbridge, is the founder of powerful the Anglo-Norman family of Clare
Baudouin of Grinding stones (in English: Baldwin Fitz Gilbert) , lord of Grinding stones and the Sap.

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