1st Baron of Ixworth Robert Le Blount 1029 1065 8434

1ST BARON OF IXWORTH
Robert Le Blount 1029 Sex: Male

Birth Date	1065

Father	Rodolphe I comte de Guines	Born: 0982	Died: 1036 MAY 30
Mother	Rosella de Saint Pol	Born: 0995	Died: 1062

Robert Le Blount Notes:	Robert had the command of the Conquerors ships of war, and is styled "Dux Navium Militarium". His portion of the "spolia opima" embraced thirteen manors in Suffolk, in which county he was the 1st feudal Baron of Ixworth (the place of his residence), and Lord of Orford Castle.
Notes:	Some sources bestow a naval honor on Robert, who is often styled "Sir Robert he Admiral le Blount." naming Robert as "Dux Navium Militarium." The implication is that William (or Robert) LE BLOUNT must have accompanied William the Conqueror in 1066, but there is no proof that any BLOUNT accompanied him. "Sir Robert le Blount had the command of the Conquerors ships of war and is styled "Dux Navium Militarium." His portion of the spolia opima embraced thirteen manors in Suffolk, in which county he was the 1st feudal Baron of Ixworth (the place of his residence), and Lord of Orford Castle. He m. Gundreda, youngest dau. of Henry, Earl Ferrers, and had a son and heir, Gilbert le Blount. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burkes Peerage, Ltd., London, 1884, p. 54, Blount, Barons Mountjoy and Earl of Devon]."
Notes:	Battle of Hastings William, Duke of Normandy, launched his bloody and decisive invasion of Saxon England in 1066. In that year Edward the Confessor, King of England, died without heir, appointing by his will Harold Godwinsson, son of Englandâ€™s most powerful nobleman, the Earl of Wessex, as his successor. Across the Channel, William of Normandy considered himself rightfully the next King of England, basing his claim on a promise by Edward the Confessor in the early 1050s and an oath of fealty sworn by Harold during an enforced visit to Williamâ€™s capital at Rouen following his capture by the Count of Ponthieu. Succeeding to the dukedom of Normandy as a bastard child of Duke Robert, William devoted his early adult life to enforcing his authority in a succession of ruthless campaigns, meanwhile building his dukedom into a fearsome mini-state, efficient both administratively and militarily. In the summer of 1066 William assembled an army of noblemen and adventurers from across Northern France to invade England, promising lands and titles in his new kingdom to his followers and obtaining the support of the Pope for the venture. A fleet of around 1,000 vessels, designed in the style of the old Norse â€œDragon Shipsâ€ (80 feet long; propelled by oars and a single sail), was built and assembled to convey the army across the Channel. Among the fighting knights of Northern France who joined William were Eustace, Count of Boulogne, Charles Martel, Roger de Beaumont and Roger de Montgomerie. The clergy was well represented; among them Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, Williamâ€™s half brother, and a monk RenÃ© who brought twenty fighting men and a ship, in the expectation of a bishopric in England. Robert le Blount commanded the fleet.

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Gundreda de Ferrers Sex: Female

Birth Date	1041 Ferrieres-St.-Hilaire, Eure, Normandy, France
Death Date	1086
Father	Henry de Ferrieres of FerriÃ¨res-Saint-Hilaire and Chambray	Born: 1036	Died: 1101
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Gilbert Le Blount 2nd Baron of Ixworth

b.1056
d.

Gundreda de Ferrers

Alicia de Colekirke

1 I William le Blount 3rd Baron of Ixworth b.1096

Galiena de Blount Heiress of Exning b.1150

II Robert de Insula b.1170

III Robert de Insula b.1188

Ancestors Chart

Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-
comte de Guines Rodolphe I b.0982 d.1036	comte de GuÃ®nes Ardolph de Guines I, II b.0965 d.0996	Count of GuÃ®nes Siegfried de Guines THE DANE b.0912 d.0965	duke of Frisia Godfrid duke of Frisia b.0820 Denmark d.0885 See Notes
				comte de Guines Rodolphe I b.0982 d.1036
			Princess Of Lorraine Gisela of Lotharingia b.0869 Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands d.0907	king of Lotharingia Lothair II b.0835 Carolingian Empire (Present France) d.0869 See Notes	Emperor Lothair der Franken I b.0795 Altdorf bei NÃ¼rnberg, Bayern, Deutschland d.0855 See Notes	Emperor Louis I THE PIOUS b.0778 d.0840 See Notes	King of the Franks, King of the Lombards, Emperor of the Romans Charles Charlemagne I CHARLES THE GREAT Holy Roman Emperor b.0742 Likely in present day Belgium or Germany d.0814 See Notes	King of the Franks Pepin III THE SHORT b.0714 Jupille-sur-Meuse, LiÃ¨ge, Liege, Walloon Region, Belgium d.0768 See Notes	Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel THE HAMMER b.0686 Herstal, LiÃ¨ge, Walloon Region, Belgium d.0741 See Notes	MORE>
								Queen of the Franks Bertrada Broadfoot of Laon BERTHA b.0720 d.0783 See Notes	count of Laon Charibert b.0696 d.0747	MORE>
							Hildegard Of vinzgouw b.0754 Swabia (present Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg), Germany d.0783	Count in Kraichgau and Anglachgau Gerold Of Vinzgau b.0725 Anglachgau (within present Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg), Schwaben, Frankish Empire (present Germany) d.0784 See Notes	Frankish Aristocrat b.0660 Mainz, rhineland-palatinate, germany	MORE>
								Duchess of Swabia Emma Of alemannia b.0726 Alamannia (present Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg), Frankish Empire (within present Germany) d.0783	Duke of the Alemannians Hnabi Herzog der alemannen b.0710 d.0788 See Notes	MORE>
						Princess Ermengarde of Italy de Hesbaye b.0778 Hesbaye, RÃ©gion Wallonne, Belgique (within present Belgium), Austrasia, Frankish Empire d.0818	COUNT of HESBAYE Ingeramne de Hasbaye b.0753 Hesbaye, Liege, Walloon Region, Belgium d.0818 See Notes
								Princess Ermengarde of Italy de Hesbaye b.0778 Hesbaye, RÃ©gion Wallonne, Belgique (within present Belgium), Austrasia, Frankish Empire d.0818
							Hedwig of Bavaria b.0755 d.0802	Count Isambart of Bavaria b.0690
								Hedwig of Bavaria b.0755 d.0802
					Ermengarde of Tours b.0800 d.0851	Count of Tours Hugh THE TIMID b.0775 Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France d.0837 See Notes	Luitfrid II De Sundgau b.0745 d.0802	Duke of Alsace Luitfrid b.0700 d.0742	Duke of Alsace Adalbert b.0665 d.0723	MORE>
								Ermengarde of Tours b.0800 d.0851
							Ermengarde of Tours b.0800 d.0851
						Countess of Lower Alsace Ava De tours b.0769 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France d.0839
							Countess of Lower Alsace Ava De tours b.0769 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France d.0839
				Ermentrude de Wormsgau

		Eltrude Rosella de Flandres


Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024-persons	-
Rosella de Saint Pol b.0995 St. Pol, Pas-de-Calais, France d.1062

2 persons	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 Persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-

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