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Per Wikipedia.org: see WALTER GIFFARD II, 1ST EARL OF BUCKINGHAM--Walter was married to Agnes de Ribemont, sister of Anselm de Ribemont.
Walter Giffard I, Count of Longueville was married to Ermengarde, daughter of Gerard Flaitel.

Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham.
William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester.
Rohese Giffard (d. aft. 1113), married Richard fitz Gilbert, Lord of Clare.
Lora Giffard, married Sir Robert de Hampden.

Family/Spouse: Giffard, Walter. Walter (son of Giffard, Osbern de Bolebec and de Crepon, Avelina Duceline) was born on 3 Jul 1010 in Longueville, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; was christened on 7 Apr 1013; died on 15 Jul 1084 in Brewood, Staffordshire, England; was buried after 15 Jul 1084 in St Marys and St Chad Churchyard, Brewood, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Giffard, Osberne de Arques was born in 1042 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England; died in 1086 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in 1086.
2. Giffard, Rohese was born on 13 Apr 1034 in Longueville, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 7 Jan 1113 in Clare Castle, Clare, Suffolk, England; was buried on 14 Jan 1113 in Colchester, Essex, England.

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Gerard Flaitel († c. 1047) was a Norman knight and a ' most powerful lord in Normandy at the time of the Richards' according to Orderic Vitalis.

Life
Gerard was a Norman baron with substantial estates in the Pays de Caux, the Hiemois, the Evrecin and Risle valley.[1] He was a vassal of William of Talou in Arques.[2]

In 1035, when Robert I, Duke of Normandy left on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Gerard Flaitel was one of his companions.[3] In the spring of 1035 the group left Normandy probably taking the favored route through the Danube river basin to Constantinople.[4] Duke Robert obtained permission for him and his retinue to continue on to Muslim-controlled Jerusalem.[4] In Turkey Robert paid the required mussella (pilgrim tax).[3] They arrived in time to spend Holy Week in Jerusalem.[3] On their return through Asia Minor, Duke Robert fell ill while they were in Nicaea, and died there about 2 July. As he lay dying Gerard was asked to take possession of a Holy relic Robert acquired in Jerusalem, reputedly a finger-bone of Saint Stephen, and to make a gift of it to the abbey or monastery of his choosing.[3] Gerard returned to Normandy and became a monk at the Abbey of St. Wandrille taking the relic with him.[3] He died after 1047.[5]

Family
While the name of his wife (or wives) is not known Gerard Flaitel had at least the following children:

William Flaitel, Bishop of Évreux († 1066).[6]
Ermengarde, wife of Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville.[6]
Basilla, wife of Ralph de Gacé, son of Robert, Archbishop of Rouen and secondly of Hugh de Gournay.[7]
Anscherius[8]