Luce de Gast (or Luces de Gast) born c. 1190, was lord of the castle of Gast, near
Salisbury
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'' casts doubt on all aspects of the identification.
It has been suggested that 'Gast' is
Gastard
Gastard is a village in Wiltshire, England, four miles south west of Chippenham, part of the civil parish of the nearby town of Corsham.
The village has a pub called the Harp and Crown.
History and church
Remains of an early field system at G ...
in
Wiltshire
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[Mary Bateson, ''Mediaeval England: English feudal society from the Norman conquest to the middle of the fourteenth century'' (1904), p. 175: "Gastard near Corsham, Wilts, may perhaps be the place in question".]
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1190 births
Year of death unknown
English male poets
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