Gerbod the Fleming, of Oosterzele, 1st Earl of Chester, was a hereditary advocate of the Abbey of Saint Bertin at Saint-Omer, County of Flanders and Earl of Chester in 1070.
Ruins of Saint-Bertin Abbey at Saint-Omer
Gundred, Countess of Surrey
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Gundred or Gundreda was the Flemish-born wife of an early Norman baron, William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey. She and her husband established Lewes Priory in Sussex.
Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester
…county along with the city of Chester forming the county palatine of Chester. His brother, Frederic, was a tenant-in-chief in East Anglia and his sister Gundred married William I de Warenne, later 1st Earl of Surrey, whose caput was Castle Acre in Norfolk. Gerbod was mentioned as being a part of the reduction…
Her Tournai marble memorial, illustrated in Charles Boutell's Christian monuments in England and Wales (1854)
Two leaden cists containing the remains of Gundred and her husband; chalk lithograph by F. W. Woledge after a drawing by R. H. Nibbs, 1845