Gilbert Family

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## Family heritage

### Species

* Human
* Doppelgänger
* Medium
* Vampire
* Supernatural Hunter
* Hybrid
* Tribrid

### Notable family members

* Irene † (Witch)
* The Hollow † (Witch)
* Johnathan Gilbert † (Human)
* Christopher Gilbert † (Human)
* Grayson Gilbert † (Human)
* Miranda Sommers-Gilbert † (Human)
* Jeremy Gilbert (Medium, Supernatural Hunter)
* John Gilbert † (Human)
* Isobel Flemming † (Vampire; Elena and Adrianna's Biological Mother)
* Elena Gilbert (Doppelgänger, Vampire)
* Adrianna Gilbert (Doppelgänger, Tribrid)
* Damon Salvatore (Vampire, Adrianna's Husband)
* Hope Mikaelson (Tribrid)
* Alexia Salvatore (Tribrid)

## Relationships

### Related families

* Flemming Family
* Sommers Family
* Petrova Family
* Salvatore Family
* Mikaelson Family

## Affiliation

### Property

* Gilbert House (Rebuilt)
* Gilbert Family Lake House
* Salvatore Boarding House (Formerly)

The **Gilbert Family** is one of the main Founding Families in the *An Epic Kind of Love* series. They seem to be a fairly wealthy family, possessing a house, a small building, which was originally Grayson Gilbert's Office, and a lake house. The Gilbert Family has been linked to the Lockwood, Salvatore, Forbes, and Fell families since the 1800's.

As of Book 4 of *Legacies*, Alexia Salvatore and Jeremy are the last living members of the Gilbert Family. The other surviving members, Elena, Adrianna, and Hope, are undead.

## Notable Family Members

* **Irene:** Irene was born some time during 1st Century BCE (100 BC), presumably in Ancient Greece. She was a very powerful witch that was able to practice both dark and light magic without any consequences from Nature. She was the best friend and mentor of Silas and a close friend of Amara's. Before dying, she cast a very powerful binding spell that bound the supernatural abilities/powers of the second-born descendants of her bloodline. This spell remained unbroken for 2000 years.
* **Inadu (The Hollow):** Inadu was a powerful 6th century Native American witch who wanted more power but her people were afraid of her, including her own mother. She was powerful enough to curse her mother and her people into the form of the animal they used to hunt her down, wolves, after her own death. Inadu is the origin of the Werewolf Curse and the Seven Werewolf Bloodlines.
* **Johnathan Gilbert:** Johnathan lived in Mystic Falls in the year 1864 and was part of the Founders' Council. Johnathan wrote a number of stories in journals about his life, including the existence of vampires. His descendants Jeremy, John, Elena, and Adrianna have also read his journals. He had two rings made that would protect the wearer from death by the supernatural - although the rings won't work on the supernatural even if they are essentially human (Doppelgängers) - and they were originally owned by John and Grayson Gilbert. After their deaths, Alaric Saltzman was the owner of one and Jeremy Gilbert was the owner of the other.
* **Christopher Gilbert:** He was a member of the Gilbert family. Nothing is known about him and he was only mentioned once by Stefan.
* **Samantha Gilbert:** Samantha was a young woman about 25 years old. She was smart and a beautiful brunette. She was one of the town's founding family members and appeared in flashbacks. She was killed by Damon Salvatore in 1912, but she wore a Gilbert Ring, so she was revived. But in 1922, she confessed to committing a series of unsolved murders - similar to Alaric Saltzman in the present day who was corrupted by the darkness brought on by his ring - and was locked in an asylum, where she died while attempting to give herself a lobotomy and bled to death on the floor in her cell.
* **Grayson Gilbert:** Grayson was Jeremy's biological father and Elena and Adrianna's biological uncle and adoptive father. He was the doctor who helped Isobel Flemming give birth. Later, he and his wife Miranda adopted the twins. He was involved in a car accident on May 23, 2009 and drowned after going over Wickery Bridge. He was a member of the Town Council along with his wife. Grayson was also a member of the Augustine Society.
* **Miranda Sommers-Gilbert:** Miranda was Jeremy's biological mother and Elena and Adrianna's adoptive mother and aunt by marriage. She drowned after going over Wickery Bridge along with her husband on May 23, 2009. She was the older sister of Jenna Sommers and a resident of Mystic Falls, Virginia. She was a member of the Town Council.
* **John Gilbert:** John was Elena and Adrianna's adoptive uncle, Jeremy's biological uncle, and Elena and Adrianna's biological father. In his teenage years, John learned about the vampires that has once threatened Mystic Falls from his brother, Grayson, whom he held in high regard and looked up to greatly. Later on, he met and fell in love with Isobel Flemming. Isobel told John that she was pregnant and John brought her to his brother who was a doctor, so that she could give birth to her daughters, Elena and Adrianna. Isobel left the twins in the good hands of Grayson and Miranda, who didn't know that John was actually Elena's biological father.
* **Elena Gilbert:** Elena was born in Mystic Falls, Virginia. Elena was adopted by Grayson Gilbert, her biological uncle, and his wife Miranda, her adoptive mother and aunt by marriage. Her actual mother was Isobel Flemming, who was a descendant of the Petrova bloodline, including Katerina Petrova and Tatia. She is also the daughter of John Gilbert, Grayson's younger brother. She was turned into a vampire by Damon's blood when she died driving off Wickery Bridge. Though she never wanted to be a vampire, she became adjusted to her new life and is currently the headmistress of the Mikaelson-Salvatore Institute.
* **Adrianna Gilbert:** Adrianna is a tribrid that was born in Mystic Falls, Virginia, to Isobel Flemming and John Gilbert. Immediately after her birth, Adrianna and her twin sister, Elena, were adopted by the biological uncle, Grayson Gilbert, and his wife. She is a descendant of the Petrova bloodline and is the second-born of Irene's bloodline. In Book 2, Adrianna was turned into a vampire by Katherine Pierce's blood. She adjusted well to being a vampire and, later in the series, is revealed to be the world's first tribrid. Through a loophole, she became pregnant with her first child with Niklaus Mikaelson. She becomes the Original Tribrid shortly after giving birth to her daughter. Later, she gives birth to her second child fathered by her husband, Damon.
* **Jeremy Gilbert:** Jeremy is a medium and Supernatural Hunter who lived in Mystic Falls. He is the biological son of Grayson and Miranda Gilbert and the biological nephew of Jenna Sommers and John Gilbert. Like the rest of the Gilberts, Jeremy is a descendant of Labonair/Irene's bloodline. He was a member of The Five until he was killed by Silas in Book 4 of Part 1 of the series. He was resurrected by Bonnie at the end of Book 4.
* **Hope Mikaelson:** Hope is the tribrid daughter of Adrianna and Klaus Mikaelson and the older half-sister of Alexia Salvatore. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Due to her unique heritage, she is the world's first naturally born werewolf-witch-vampire hybrid. She inherited all three supernatural genes from both of her parents, though her tremendous amount of magical ability is derived from her father's side, due to her being a first-born of Dahlia and Esther's Family Bloodline. Hope is a descendant of the Labonair and Petrova Bloodlines. Hope became a fully activated tribrid in Book 4 of *Legacies* and currently attends the Mikaelson-Salvatore Institute with her sister and her friends.
* **Alexia Salvatore:** Alexia is the daughter of Adrianna and Damon and the half-sister of Hope. She is a tribrid like her sister and her mother, though she is not an activated one. She is the world's second naturally born tribrid of all three species and the third overall. Alexia is a descendant of the first Immortals, Silas and Amara, as well as a second-born of the Labonair/ Irene's bloodline, giving her a tremendous amount of magical ability. Due to this, she is extremely powerful, rivaled only by her mother and her sister. Alexia is by birthright a member of the Crescent Wolf Pack and is the last living member of both the Salvatore and Petrova families.

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## Relatives

* **Isobel Flemming:** Isobel was Elena and Adrianna's biological mother. She was married to Alaric Saltzman, Elena and Adrianna's stepfather and Elena, Adrianna, and Jeremy's guardian. She became a vampire after being turned by Damon Salvatore in 2007. Isobel gave birth to the twins when she was 16, with the help of Grayson Gilbert, John Gilbert's older brother. Grayson and his wife Miranda then chose to adopt them. She later kills herself after being compelled by Klaus, by ripping off her Lapis Lazuli necklace and burning in the sun.

* **Jenna Sommers:** Jenna was Miranda's younger sister and Jeremy, Elena, and Adrianna's legal guardian until her death. She was the sister-in-law to Grayson Gilbert. She was Jeremy's biological aunt and Elena and Adrianna's adoptive aunt. Jenna was killed by Klaus as part of a sacrifice ritual needed to break the hybrid curse placed on Klaus. She knew nothing of the supernatural or vampires until she was killed by Klaus and turned into a vampire shortly before her death.
* **Damon Salvatore:** Damon is Adrianna's husband and the father of Alexia. He is a 192 year old vampire. He currently lives in Mystic Falls with his wife.
* **Niklaus Mikaelson:** Klaus is the father of Hope. He is currently married to Caroline Forbes and is the step-father of Josie and Lizzie Forbes. He is currently the Original Hybrid and lives in New Orleans with his wife, where they are both considered the King and Queen of the city.

## Family Tree

Note: Dashed lines indicate a span of unknown time between generations of family members. Free floating members of the family have yet to be identified as to how they are connected within the family tree, but they have been confirmed to be from the Gilbert family.
## Name

* **Gilbert** is a name of Norman-French origin, itself from Germanic *Gisilberht* or *Gisalberht*. Original spellings included *Giselbert*, *Guilbert*, and *Gilebert*. The first element, Gil-, comes from Germanic *gīsil*, meaning "shaft of an arrow" or *gisal* "pledge, hostage", while the second element, -*bert* comes from Germanic -*behrt*, short form of *beraht*, meaning "bright" or "famous".
* Other spellings and variations of the name Gilbert including Gib, Gibb, Gil, Gilberto, Gilburt, Giselbert, Giselberto, Giselbertus, Guilbert, Gilbirt, Gilbyrt, Gilbart, Gilibeirt, Giliburt, Gilibert, Gilibirt, Gilleabart, Guilbert, Guilbirt, Guilburt.

## Trivia

* Four of the most powerful witches in existence, Irene, Adrianna, Hope, and Alexia, are from the Gilbert bloodline.
* The first known member of the Gilbert Family bloodline is Irene.
* Just like Katherine, Elena and Adrianna have lost their entire family except for Jeremy.
* When Jeremy died, Elena turned her humanity off and Adrianna went after Katherine.
* Every member of the Gilbert family has died at least once
* Although technically cousins, the twins and Jeremy have a sister-brother relationship and refer to each other as so.