Medieval English families on the internet: G

Gand (Ghent)

• Who were the parents of Gilbert de Gant? (Raymond W. Phair)
  Discussion of the parentage of the 11th-century Flemish immigrant

Gerbod

• Notes on the family of Gerbod, Earl of Chester, and of Gundred, wife of William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey (this site)
  Transcripts of documents and discussion
• A Brief Outline of the lives of Gundrad, and William Earl de Warenne... by the Rev. John Scobell (1845) and Observations on the Parentage of Gundreda The Daughter of William Duke of Normandy And Wife of William de Warenne, by Sir George Duckett, (reprinted with additions from the Cumberland and Westmorland Society's Translations, vol.3, 1878) (Tom Burch and Ronnie Warren, Old Books on CD) [formerly at http://www.oldbooksoncd.com/gundrad_book.htm and http://www.oldbooksoncd.com/gundreda_book.htm; not available, 14 May 2006; see the Internet Archive's copies of Scobell and Duckett, from February 2005]
  Two 19th-century texts discussing Gundred's ancestry and epitaph; note that the old belief that Gundred was William the Conqueror's daughter has since been shown conclusively to be false

Giffard

• Walter Giffard (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
• Walter Tirel and His Wife (Pat Patterson)
  Excerpts from J.H. Round, Feudal England (1895), discussing the families of Tirel, Clare and Giffard
  N.B. The whole of Round's Feudal England is now available as a PDF file (17.6 MB) at the McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
• Notes on the will of Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester (this site)
  A list of nearly 50 names from the will of Godfrey Giffard, dated 1301. Godfrey was a son of Hugh Giffard of Boyton, Wiltshire, and Sibyl his wife, daughter and coheir of Walter de Cormeilles.

Gilpin

• Pedigrees of Gilpin of Carlisle (Carole A.M. Johnson)
  Scanned pedigrees from J.W. Clay, ed., Familiæ Minorum Gentium.

Glanville

• Records of the Anglo-Norman House of Glanville from A.D. 1050 to 1880 by W.U.S. Glanville-Richards (1882; transcribed by Jay Glanville)
  [NB This work is known to be sometimes unreliable, and should be used with care]

Glemham

• Glemham, Phelip, Erpingham, Reppes (Matthew Hovius, WorldConnect Project)
  Notes and discussion on the Glemhams of Suffolk, 14th and 15th centuries.

Goostrey

• The evidences for the arms of Goostrey (Martin S.J. Goldstraw, Cheshire Heraldry)
  Includes information on the Goostreys of Goostrey, Cheshire, 13th-15th centuries, and associated families

Gournay

• Hugh de Gournay (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Grandmesnil

• Hugh de Grentmesnil (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Greenwood

• Greenwood Genealogies, 1154-1914 (Frederick Greenwood)
  Includes medieval pedigrees and medieval references to the family, including abstracts of Tudor wills (Yorkshire)

Gresley

• The Alleged Gresley-Swinnerton Marriage: A Closer Examination (Nathaniel L. Taylor; PDF file)
  Discussion of the identity of Alice, wife of Sir John Gresley of Drakelowe, Derbyshire, and of the wife of Sir Thomas Swinnerton (d. 1361).

Grey

• Greys Court (Michael W. Cook)
  Includes an account of the Greys of Rotherfield, from the 11th to the 14th centuries
• Grays and Greys - a chronology (Brian Burton, Thurrock Local History Society)
  An account of the Greys of Thurrock, Essex, and Codnor, Derbyshire, 12th-15th centuries

Gumbleton

• Gumbleton Family History (Steve West)
  Includes a list of references to Early Gumbletons, and lists of IPMs and Printed biographies & genealogies

Gunhouse/Gunnays

• The Gunnays Family of Hayton, Yorkshire (Peter Freeman) and Origins of the Name [Gunhouse] (Glenn Gunhouse)
  Detailed notes, 13th-16th centuries

Guy

• The Guy Lineage (Guy Etchells)
  Narrative pedigree, Leicestershire, 16th century and later, with links to transcripts of wills