GILBERT DE VENABLES.

From Venables, canton of Gaillon, arrondissement of Louviers, near Evreux, Normandy, which was the ancient seat of the barony of Le Veneurs, so named for their hereditary office of veneur or venator (huntsman) to the dukes of Normandy. They appear as far back as the 10th century in charters of the Gallia Christiana. Walter Le Veneur fought at the battle of the Fords in 960 between Lothaire, king of France, and Richard I, duke of Normandy. Gilbert Venator, or de Venables, held the barony of Kinderton, Cheshire, in 1086 (Domesday), where he was a palatine baron of Hugh Lupus. From him descended the barons of Kinderton and many other families in England, as well as a French line.

--(This name appears on the Falaise Roll).