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Walter and Maud lived at Bridlington, Yorkshire.
During the civil war (1135 AD to 1152 AD) Walter supported Stephen, whose wife,
Matilda, Countess of Boulogne, was his kinswoman (Gilbert de Ghent’s great-aunt,
Adele, married the father of Count Eustace I of Boulogne). Walter participated in the
Battle of the Standard. He supported the very moving appeal made by Robert de
Bruce to David, King of Scotland, “not to bring war between men who were kinsmen
and comrades”. Bruce had a son on the opposing (Scottish) side, and so did Walter
de Ghent – for Walter de Lindsay II was by now established with his family at Ercildon.
Walter de Ghent died 1139 AD.
The Scottish estates passed to Walter de Lindsay II, who was by then married to a
kinswoman of the Scottish Queen.
The children of Walter de Ghent’s marriage to Maud of Brittany enjoyed the English
estates without conflict of allegiance. The possession of the Lincolnshire parishes of
Fordington and Ulseby by Sir William Lindsay of Lamberton at the st art of the 13th
century shows that at least some of the Ghent heritage passed to the Lindsays of
Molesworth, who were also the Lindsays of Ercildon.

England
Gilbert de Ghent III, Lord of Lindsay, Earl of Lincoln (son of Walter de Ghent and
Maud of Brittany), was born in 1120 AD and died in 1156 AD. He married Rohese de
Clare. His daughter, Alice de Ghent, married Simon de Senlis III, a grandson of
Queen Maud of Scotland, and a distant relative.
Gilbert de Ghent VI, of Folkingham (no longer calling himself Earl of Lincoln) died
without male heirs in 1297 AD. Gilbert married Lora de Baliol, a kinswoman of King
John Baliol.
Robert de Ghent I (son of Gilbert de Ghent and Alice de Montfort sur Risle) was
Chancellor to King Stephen. He died in 1153 AD.
Robert de Ghent II (son of Walter de Ghent and Maud of Brittany) married twice. His
first wife was Alice, his second, Gunmor. He had one son, Gilbert de Ghent IV, who
was a minor when Robert died.
Ralph de Ghent III (son of Gilbert de Ghent and Alice de Montfort sur Risle) married
Ethelreda, the granddaughter of Gospatrick, Earl of Northumberland. It is not known if
Ralph had any immediate heirs; descendants of the great Gospatrick all took Saxon or
Scandinavian names. William de Lindsay of Scotland eventually claimed the estates.
Ragenfridus de Lindsay (youngest son of Ralf, Lord of Alost and Gisela of
Luxembourg) appears to have accompanied Gilbert to England. He may also have
been known as Angodus de Lindsay. Angodus de Lindsay may have left sons, but
they would have been called by the name of his chief manor, which is unknown to us.

Scotland
Henry de Ghent was also known as Henry Erskine in Scotland. He took the Alost
arms, reversed, to Scotland: argent, a pale sable. Henry Erskine’s device came
closest to the original Alost pattern out of those families that took the colours to
Scotland.

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