Gilbert of Bourbon-Montpensier (1443 – 15 October 1496, Pozzuoli), Count of Montpensier, was a member of the House of Bourbon.

[1] He was appointed to the Order of Saint Michael by King Charles VIII of France in October 1483.

The creation for the Berry and Bourbon branches was made of lands that were confiscated from the count of Auvergne by Philip II of France.

[citation needed] On 24 February 1482 Gilbert married Clara Gonzaga (1 July 1464 – 2 June 1503),[1] daughter of Federico I of Gonzaga of Mantua; they had the following issue: Gilbert was made the Viceroy of Naples in 1495 after king Charles VIII of France occupied the city in the Italian War of 1494–1495.

[4] In July 1496, Montpensier was captured at the Siege of Atella with the remaining French forces,[5] he and his men were held in a malarial marshland near Pozzuoli, where he later died.