Gerard de Furnival

Sir Gerard Furnival (died 1219) was an English landowner and soldier.

[1] Born about 1179, he was the son of Sir Gerard Furnival, who had accompanied King Richard I on the Third Crusade to Palestine[1] and is said to have fought there at the Siege of Acre in 1191.

[citation needed] Through marriage around 1199, he acquired considerable lands at Hallamshire in Yorkshire and at Worksop in Nottinghamshire.

Both Thomas and Gerard died taking part in the Barons' Crusade in 1241.

[citation needed] His widow outlived her husband and two of her sons, dying at some point after 1258.