Gilbert de Venables

Gilbert de VENABLES [Parents] 1, 2 was born 1023 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France. He died 1087 in Venables, Normandie, France.

He had the following children:

     		M 	i 	Gilbert de VENABLES was born 1060.

Sources:

Ormerod, George, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (London: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, 1819.), 3:198, Family History Library, 942.71 H2or.

2Boyer, Carl, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell (Santa Clarita, California: C. Boyer, 2001.), p. 253, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.2 A141-2.

Spouse: Margery De HATTON. Gilbert De VENABLES and Margery De HATTON were married about 1144 in . Children were: Hamon DE LEIGH, Maud De VENABLES, Michael De VENABLES, Robert De VENABLES, Gilbert De VENABLES, Sir Knight, Baron Of Kynd Hugh De VENABLES, Hamon De LEGH, Amabilia De VENABLES, William De VENABLES.

The ancient Castle of Kinderton was located along the Dane, two fields’ breadth from the old Roman works of Condate-a part of the moat is all that is left of it. The Castle has been taken down as well as the later Kinderton Hall. Kinderton Lodge is in another part of the Manor.

Of his ancestry, Sir Peter Leycester wrote:

… This Gilbert de Venables who came to England at the time of the Norman Conquest …it is plain from ancient deeds …was younger brother to Stephen, Earl of Blois.

The First Three Barons of Kinderton