Gerard Flaitel

Gerard Flaitel († c. 1047) was a Norman knight and a 'most powerful lord in Normandy at the time of the Richards' according to Orderic Vitalis.

Gerard was a Norman baron with substantial estates in the Pays de Caux, the Hiemois, the Evrecin and Risle valley.

[3] In the spring of 1035 the group left Normandy probably taking the favored route through the Danube river basin to Constantinople.

[3] On their return through Asia Minor, Duke Robert fell ill while they were in Nicaea, and died there about 2 July.

As he lay dying, Gerard was asked to take possession of a Holy relic which Robert had acquired in Jerusalem, reputedly a finger-bone of Saint Stephen, and to make a gift of it to the abbey or monastery of his choosing.