Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

Lambert II of Lens

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• • 27th Great-grandfather of Bill Gates — 30th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 860235310 
  • Father:
  • Eustace I of Boulogne 
  • Mother:
  • Mathilde of Louvain   
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  • Death Date:
  • 1054 
  • Death Location:
  • Phalempin, Nord, France 
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  • Adelaide of Normandy
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  Judith of Lens (Ahnentafel No:430117655 )

  • Notes: 

  • Count of Lens in Artois

    aka Lambert of Boulogne

    Lambert II of Lens died in battle at Phalempin in 1054. (aka Battle of Lille)

• Sources for Lambert II of Lens

  • ¹ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1989, Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 4.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, pp. 196, 365, 410, 548, 554.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, pp. 226, 329, 403.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. I, pp. 208-210, 266, 271.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, pp. 151, 471.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 562-569.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 919.
  • ⁸ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 126.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Lambert II, Count of Lens", _Count_of_Lens, (accessed 02/23/2010).
  • ¹⁰ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942), 428.

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