♂Gilon de Sully

Gilon de Sully was a French nobleman and the twenty-seventh great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Agnes de Sully.

He is said to have been Sire de Sully-sur-Loire, the lord of the town of Sully on the Loire, and Agnes, his younger daughter, is said to have been his sole heir. Agnes married Guillaume de Champagne, Sire de Sully, a son of Stephen, Count of Blois. Their daughter Margaret de Sully became the third wife of Henry, Count of Eu, and the mother of John of Eu. Neither Gilon’s dates nor the name of his wife are known.

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Sources

Gilon is named in the Complete Peerage (2nd edition, vol. 5, 1926, under Eu, p. 156), in the account of Henry, Count of Eu: Henry “m., 3rdly, Margaret, da. of Guillaume de Champagne, Sire de Sully (br. of King Stephen, and 1st s. of Etienne, Count of Champagne, Brie, Blois, and Chartres) by Agnes, yr. da. and sole h. of Gilon de Sully, Sire de Sully-sur-Loire”. The peerage is a compiled work and is the only source that names him; it gives his title and his daughter but no dates, place of birth or death, wife or other children.

The line to Nancy Jane Blanchard

The line runs from Gilon through his daughter Agnes de Sully and her daughter Margaret de Sully to Margaret’s son John of Eu; see the pages for Agnes and Margaret.