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Sir Gerard Furnival (died 1219) was an English landowner and soldier. [1]

Origins

Born about 1179, he was the son of Sir Gerard Furnival, who had accompanied King Richard I on the Fourth Crusade to Palestine [1] and is said to have fought there at the Siege of Acre in 1191.[ citation needed]

Career

Through marriage, in 1203 he acquired considerable lands at Hallamshire in Yorkshire and at Worksop in Nottinghamshire. [1] He joined the Fifth Crusade to Damietta in Egypt, where he is said to have died in 1219.[ citation needed]

Family

About 12 March 1201 he married Maud Lovetot, [1] a great-granddaughter of William Lovetot,[ citation needed] whose parents were William Lovetot and Maud FitzWalter. They had two sons, Thomas Furnival [1] and Gerard Furnival, who both died taking part in the Barons' Crusade in 1241.[ citation needed] His widow outlived her husband and sons, dying after 23 June 1247. [1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Vicary Gibbs; H A Doubleday, eds. (1926). The Complete Peerage. Vol. 5 (2 ed.). London. pp. 580–591.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)
  • White, Robert (1875) Worksop, The Dukery, and Sherwood Forest.
  • Nicholson, AP: Nottinghamshire History (accessed 28 January 2006).
  • James Doherty, 'The Crusading Furnivals: Family Tradition, Political Expediency and Social Pressure in Crusade Motivation', Journal of Family History (2022) [1]