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http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm GUN DRED, sister of GERBOD "the Fleming" Earl of Chester, daughter of -- - (-Castle Acre, Norfolk 27 May 1085, bur Lewes Priory). Orderic Vital is records that King William I granted "Sutregiam" to "Guillelmo de Gu arenna" who had married "Gundredam sororem Gherbodi" [1]. "Willelmus d e Warenna… Surreie comes [et] Gundrada uxor mea" founded Lewes Prior y as a cell of Cluny by charter dated 1080 [2]. This charter also name s "domine mee Matildis regine, matris uxoris mee", specifying that th e queen gave "mansionem quoque Carlentonam nomine" to Gundred. It is p resumably on this basis that some secondary works claim, it appears in correctly, that Gundred was the daughter of William I King of England . Weir asserts that the charter in question "has been proved spurious " [3], although it is not certain what other elements in the text indi cate that this is likely to be the case. Assuming the charter is genui ne, it is presumably possible that "matris" was intended in the contex t to indicate a quasi-maternal relationship, such as foster-mother o r godmother. The same relationship is referred to in the charter date d to [1080/86] under which William I King of England donated propert y in Norfolk to Lewes priory, for the souls of “…Gulielmi de Waren na et uxoris suæ Gundfredæ filiæ meæ” [4]. Gundred died in child birth. The necrology of Longpont records the death “VII Kal Jun” o f “Gondreda comitissa” [5]. [1] Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol . II, Liber IV, VII, p. 221. [2] Cluny, Tome IV, 3561, p. 689. [3] W eir (2002), p. 45. [4] Dugdale ''Monasticon'' VI.2, Covenham Priory , Lincolnshire, I, p. 993. [5] ''Obituaires de Sens'' Tome I.1, Prieu ré de Longpont, p. 524.