Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln (c. 1126 - 1156) was the son of Walter de Gant and Maud of Brittany. The title of Earl of Lincoln was created in the Peerage of England in 1572 for Edward Clinton, Lord Clinton, who served as Lord High Admiral under Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. The title was from the 18th century until the 1980s held by the Duke of Newcastle...

He was made Earl of Lincoln by King Stephen, despite William de Roumare (Romayre) still enjoying the Earldom. He was also known as comte de Lincolne Gislebert II de Gand. The title of Earl of Lincoln was created in the Peerage of England in 1572 for Edward Clinton, Lord Clinton, who served as Lord High Admiral under Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. The title was from the 18th century until the 1980s held by the Duke of Newcastle... Stephen (1096 - October 25, 1154), the last Norman King of England, reigned from 1135 to 1154, when he was succeeded by his cousin (or, as the gossip of the time had it, his natural son) Henry II, the first of the Angevin or Plantagenet Kings. ... An Earl as a member of the British peerage ranks below a Marquess and above a Viscount. ...

He married Rohese de Clare, daughter of Richard fitz Gilbert, Lord of Clare and Adeliza de Meschines; He was taken prisoner, while still in his youth, with King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in 1142. He later married Hawyse de Romare, daughter of William de Romare, first Earl of Lincoln. He was compelled by Ranulph, Earl of Chester, to marry his niece, the Lady Hawise Romare, daughter and heir of William de Romare, Earl of Lincoln, in whose right he eventually became Earl of Lincoln. He founded, as Earl of Lincoln, Rufford Abbey c. 1148 in Nottinghamshire, England. Fourth Earl of Lincoln in England, in 1147. There were two Battles of Lincoln, both occurring during the Middle Ages at the city of Lincoln in England. ... The Earldom of Chester is one of the few palatine earldoms in England. ... Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. ... Jump to: navigation, search England is the worst place known to mankind ...