William "Stronghand" d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel
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This family derived its name from Aubigny, near Periers, in the Cotentin. The pedigree commences with Grimoult du Plessis, the traitor of Valognes and Val-Des-Dunes, who died in a dungeon in 1047. William d'Aubigny, first of the name, married the sister of Grimoult and had issue Roger, who married Amicia, sister of Geoffry, bishop of Coutances, and of Roger de Montbray (i.e. Mowbray). The latter had issue, William d'Aubigny II, pincerna to Henry I, who married Maud Bigot, daughter of Roger Bigot, and died 1139; 2, Richard, abbot of St-Albans; 3, Nigel, whose son took the name of Mowbray on inheriting the estates of that family; 4, Humphrey, and finally, Ralph. William d'Aubigny II had issue William III, who married Adeliza, widow of king Henry I of England, in whose right he became the first earl of Arundel of this family, which died out in the male line with Hugh d'Aubigny, the fourth earl, in 1243, when the earldom passed to his sister, Isabel Fitz Alan.
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Castle Rising Castle
Castle Rising Castle - Photo © Andy Peacock, Oct 2005
Nigel d'Aubigny, the third son of Roger, became one of the greatest landowners in England and is the only member of the family recorded in Domesday, having received grants of several lordships in Buckingham, Leicester, Bedford and Warwick, as he succeeded to the estates of his father and grandfather. He is reputed to have possessed 120 manors in Normandy and as many in England, including the great domain of the earl of Mowbray, which came to him through his wife, confiscated from his cousin, Robert de Mowbray, earl of Northumberland, given by Henry I, on the condition that their eldest son would take the name of Mowbray. He lived to a very great age, and died in 1138. Roger made a donation to the abbey of Lessay in 1084 and died about this time, for he is not entered in Domesday. --(Falaise Roll)
Castle Rising Castle is a ruined castle situated in the village of Castle Rising in the English county of Norfolk . It was built in about 1150 by William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel , who also owned Arundel Castle. Much of its square keep, surrounded by a defensive mount, is intact, and it is now in the care of English Heritage. During the Anarchy the castle was the site of a mint producing pennies for King Stephen . Between 1330 and 1358 , it was the residence of the disgraced former queen, Isabella of France , who may have died here. The castle is in remarkably good condition despite being over 850 years old. One of the most striking features is the earthwork surrounding the moat. The built up soil is now covered in grass for aesthetic reasons, but the grass features many delicate wild flowers and butterflies in spring or summer. There is a gravel path at the top of the built-up area, which enables the visitor to walk right round the building, getting not only a good view of the castle, but also of the town of Castle Rising and its neighbours. --Wiki
Nigel d'Aubigny
Nigel d'Aubigny (Neel d'Aubigny or Nigel de Albini, died 1129), was a Norman Lord and English baron who was the son of Roger d’Aubigny and Amice or Avice. His father was an avid supporter of Henry I of England, and his brother William d'Aubigny Pincerna was the king's Butler and father of the 1st Earl of Arundel. Nigel was born at Thirsk Castle in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, Kingdom of England. He was the founder of the noble House of Mowbray.
Life
He is described as "one of the most favoured of Henry’s 'new men'".[1] While he entered the king's service as a household knight and brother of the king's butler, William d'Aubigny, in the years following the Battle of Tinchebrai in 1106 Nigel was rewarded by Henry with marriage to an heiress who brought him lordship in Normandy and with the lands of several men, primarily that of Robert de Stuteville.[2] The Mowbray honour became one of the wealthiest estates in Norman England. From 1107 to about 1118, Nigel served as a royal official in Yorkshire and Northumberland. In the last decade of his life he was frequently traveling with Henry I, most likely as one of the king's trusted military and administrative advisors He died in Normandy, possibly at the abbey of Bec.[3]
Family
He married twice. His first marriage was in 1107 to Matilda de L'Aigle, daughter of Richer, lord of L'Aigle, who had divorced the disgraced and imprisoned Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria. She brought to the marriage with Nigel her ex-husband's lordship of Montbray (Mowbray) in western Normandy. Following a decade of childless marriage and her powerful brother's death, Nigel divorced her and in 1118 remarried to Gundred de Gournay (died 1155), daughter of Gerard de Gournay. They had one son, Roger.
Grimoult of Plessis was his uncle.[4]
Notes
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Frank Barlow, William Rufus (1983) p.145.
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King, E. (1974). King Stephen and the Anglo-Norman Aristocracy. History, 59(195): 180-194.
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Greenway, pp. xvii-xviii.
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Cantru, Camille. "La participation du Bocage Normand à la conquête de l'Angleterre" (in French).
1010
William d'Aubigny
Seigneur of St. Martin-Aubigny
wahrscheinlich um 1010 in der Normanie geboren. Verheiratet seit 1033 mit
≡ Adeliza of Louvain (en)
≡ Adeliza von Löwen (de)
wahrscheinlich um 1014 geboren
Adeliza of Louvain
Adeliza of Leuven (1103-1151), also called Adela and Aleidis, was Queen consort of the Kingdom of England from 1121 to 1135, the second wife of King Henry I of England. She was the daughter of Godfrey I of Leuven, Duke of Lower Lotharingia, Landgrave of Brabant and Count of Leuven and Brussels.
She married King Henry I on 2 February 1121 when she is thought to have been aged somewhere between fifteen and eighteen. Her husband was fifty three. It is believed that Henry's only reason for marrying again was his desire for a male heir. Despite holding the record for the largest number of illegitimate children of any British monarch, William Adelin was Henry's only legitimate male heir and had predeceased his father on 25 November 1120. Adeliza was reputably quite pretty and her father was Duke of Lower Lotharingia. These were the likely reasons she was chosen. However, no children were born during the almost 15 years of the marriage.
Adeliza, unlike the other Anglo-Norman queens, played little part in the public life of the realm during her tenure as queen consort. Whether this is because of personal inclination, or because Henry preferred to keep her nearby in hopes of her conceiving, is unknown and probably unknowable. She did, however, leave a mark as a patron of literature and several works, including a bestiary, were dedicated to her. She is said to have commissioned a verse biography of King Henry; if she did it is no longer extant.
When her husband died on 1 December, 1135, Adeliza retired for a while to the monastery of Wilton, near Salisbury. As she was still young she came out of mourning some time before 1139 and married William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, who had been one of Henry's chief advisors. She brought with her a queen's dowry, including the great castle of Arundel, and
Stephen of England created d'Albini Earl of Arundel and Earl of Lincoln. Although her husband was a staunch supporter of King Stephen during the Anglo-Norman civil war, her own personal inclination may have been toward the cause of her step-daughter Empress Matilda. When the Empress sailed for England in 1139, it was to her step-mother that she appealed for shelter, and she landed near Arundel and was received as a guest of the former queen.
Seven of Adeliza and William's children were to survive to adulthood. Among them William d'Aubigny, 2nd Earl of Arundel, father to William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel who was one of the twenty-five guarantors of the Magna Carta. Among the descendants of this marriage came two girls destined to become tragic Queen consorts: Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. Adeliza also became an active patron of the church during her second marriage, giving property to Reading Abbey in honor of her former husband and to several other, smaller foundations.
Adeliza spent her final years in the abbey of Affligem (Landgraviat of Brabant, German Empire), where she died on April 23, 1151. She was buried in the abbey church next to her father, duke Godfrey I of Leuven.
One of Adeliza's brothers, Jocelin (Gosuinus), came to England and married Agnes de Percy, heiress of the Percy family. Adeliza also gave a dowry to one of her cousins when she married in England. Although it is clear that the former queen and Josecelin were very close, he may actually have been an illegitimate son of Adeliza's father and thus her half-brother. His children took their name from their mother's lineage, and their descendants include the medieval Earls of Northumberland.
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Adeliza of Louvain
Adeliza war eine Tochter von Gottfried VI. (Niederlothringen). Gottfried VI. (genannt Gottfried der Bärtige) (* um 1063; † 25. Januar 1139) war Graf von Löwen (in dieser Eigenschaft Graf Gottfried I.), Graf von Brüssel, Landgraf von Brabant, Markgraf von Antwerpen und Herzog von Niederlothringen.
Gottfried VI. heiratete um 1105 Ida von Namur und Chiny († 1117/25), die Tochter von Graf Otto II. (Haus Chiny). Mit ihr hatte er mindestens fünf Kinder:
- Adelheid von Löwen (1103–1151), (Adelicia), diese heiratete zuerst König Heinrich I. von England, und nach dessen Tod 1139 William d'Aubigny, 1. Earl of Arundel
- Gottfried II. von Löwen (um 1107–1142), ? Lutgardis von Sulzbach
- Clarissa († 1140)
- Heinrich († 1141), Mönch
- Ida († 1162), ? Arnold I. von Kleve
Nach dem Tod seiner ersten Gattin heiratete er in zweiter Ehe Clementia, Tochter Wilhelms I. von Burgund, Witwe Roberts II. von Flandern. Die Ehe blieb kinderlos.
Er hatte außerdem einen unehelichen Sohn:
Joscelin von Löwen, ? Agnes de Percy (Haus Percy)
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Gemeinfrei | Erstellt: 12. Jahrhundert date QS:P,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
"A noblewoman kneeling in front of Christ - most likely Adeliza of Louvain, widow of Henry I of England."
Adelheid stammte väterlicher- und mütterlicherseits von Karl dem Großen ab. Ihr Vater war ein Verbündeter des Kaisers Heinrich V. Adelheids Geburtsjahr ist nicht überliefert, sondern wird auf etwa 1103 geschätzt, da sie von den Quellen zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Heirat mit König Heinrich I. von England am 24.01.1121 in Schloß Windsor als puella (Mädchen) (heute würde man Tennager sagen) bezeichnet wird und nach 1135 noch sieben Kinder gebar.
Sie war zudem noch eine außerordentlich schöne Frau.[4] Die Troubadoure besangen sie als "The Fair Maid of Brabant."[5] Dennoch war sie nie Königin, sondern von 1121 - 1135 Queen Consort von England.
Die junge Königin begleitete ihren Gemahl in der Folge anscheinend häufig auf dessen Reisen – so etwa 1125, 1129 und wahrscheinlich auch 1131 in die Normandie –, wohl um die Chancen zur Zeugung eines Kindes zu erhöhen.[7] Trotz dieses Umstands und der zweifellos gegebenen Zeugungsfähigkeit beider Ehepartner blieb die fast 15 Jahre andauernde Ehe kinderlos. So blieb dem König nur Matilde aus seiner ersten Ehe; es zeigte sich aber kein Thronfolger.
Adelheid war kulturell gebildet, zeigte eine besondere Vorliebe für Literatur und tat sich am englischen Hof als Patronin französischer Lyrik hervor. So förderte sie den anglonormannischen Dichter Philippe de Thaon, der ihr sein aus dem Lateinischen übersetztes Bestiaire (Bestiarium) widmete.
Sie hatte als Morgengabe reichhaltige Güter erhalten, darunter auch Schloß Arundel.
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WILLIAM DE ALBINI. [THE CONQUEROR AND HIS COMPANIONS. by J. R. PLANCHE, TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, LONDON. 1874.]
That one or more of the family of Aubigny (Latinised into De Albinio, and better known in England as De Albini) "came over with the Conqueror," and fought at Hastings, there can be no question; but Wace, who does not specify the individual, but simply calls him "li boteillier d'Aubignie," has been accused of an anachronism by Mr. Taylor, who considers the office of Pincerna, or butler, to have been first conferred upon the grandson of William by Henry I circa 1100, when for his services to that monarch he was enfeoffed of the barony of Buckenham to hold in grand-sergeantry by the butlery, an office now discharged at coronations by the Duke of Norfolk, his descendants possessing a part of the barony. The companion of the Conqueror he believes to have been William, the first of that name we know of, or his son Roger, father of the second William, and Nigel de Albini, of whom we have previously spoken (p.30).
M. Le Prévost votes for Roger, who made a donation to the Abbey of L'Essai in 1084. There is no reason why he should not also have been in the battle.
In the absence of conclusive evidence I have headed this chapter with William de Albini, the earliest known of that name, which he derived from the commune of Aubigny, near Periers, in the Cotentin, and with whom the family pedigree commences.
This William married a sister of Grimoult du Plessis, the traitor of Valognes and Val-ès-Dunes, who died in his dungeon in 1047 (vol. i., pp. 25 and 31), and Wace may after all be right in styling him "Le Botellier," as it is probable that he held that office in the household of the Duke of Normandy. By his wife, the sister of Grimoult (I have not yet lighted on her name), he had a son, the Roger d'Aubigny aforesaid, who married Amicia, or Avitia, sister of Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutances, and of Roger de Montbrai, and is supposed by M. Le Prévost to have been with his brothers-in-law in the battle.
Roger d'Aubigny, or De Albini, had issue by his wife Avitia de Montbrai, five sons: William, known as William de Albini "Pincerna" (i.e., Butler), ancestor of the Earls of Sussex, who married Maud, daughter of Roger le Bigod, and died 1139. Richard, Abbot of St. Albans, Nigel, Humphrey, and Ruafon, or Ralph. Nigel, the third son, was heir of Robert de Montbrai, or Mowbray, his first cousin, whose wife he married during the lifetime of her husband by licence of Pope Paschal, and for some time treated her with respect out of regard for her noble parents; but on the death of her brother Gilbert de l'Aigle, having no issue by her, he craftily sought for a divorce on the ground of that very kinship which he exerted so much influence to induce the Pope to overlook, and then married Gundred, daughter of Gerrard de Gournay, by whom he had Roger, who assumed the name of Mowbray, and transmitted it to his descendants, Dukes of Norfolk and Earls Marshal of England; and Henri, ancestor of the line of Albini of Cainho.
To return to the first William, it is clear that his grandsons were mere infants even if born in 1066, and therefore I believe that it was the William, then Pincerna, and probably also Roger, his son, who were companions of the Conqueror in his expedition; Roger's eldest brother William being in disgrace in Normandy at the time, and not restored to favour, or allowed to enter England before the reign of Rufus, or it may have been Henry I.
Of William de Albini, third son and successor of William II, and Maud le Bigod, a romantic story has been invented to account for the lion rampant subsequently borne by his descendants.
Having captivated the heart of the Queen Dowager of France by his gallant conduct in a tournament at Paris, she offered to marry him, an honour which he respectfully declined, having already given his word and faith to a lady in England, another Queen Dowager, no less a personage than Adeliza, widow of King Henry I of England. His refusal so angered the French Queen, that she laid a plot with her attendants to destroy him by inducing him to enter a cave in her garden, where a lion had been placed for that purpose; but the undaunted Earl, rolling his mantle round his arm, thrust his hand into the lion's mouth, tore out its tongue, and sent it to the Queen by one of her maids. "In token of which noble and valiant act," says Brooke, in his "Catalogue of Nobility," "this William assumed to bear for his arms a lion gold in a field gules, which his successors ever since continued."
As this third William de Albini died as late as 1176, it is possible he might have assumed armorial bearings, but the lion was more probably first borne by his son, the second Earl of Arundel of the line of Aubigny, in token of his descent from Adeliza, widow of Henry l, in whose reign we have the earliest evidence of golden lions being adopted as a personal decoration, if not strictly an heraldic bearing.
WILLIAM DE ALBINI. [THE CONQUEROR AND HIS COMPANIONS. by J. R. PLANCHE, TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, LONDON. 1874.]
Dass einer oder mehrere aus der Familie von Aubigny (latinisiert als De Albinio und in England besser bekannt als De Albini) "mit dem Eroberer herüberkamen" und bei Hastings kämpften, steht außer Frage; aber Wace, der das Individuum nicht spezifiziert, sondern ihn einfach "li boteillier d'Aubignie" nennt, wurde von Mr. Taylor eines Anachronismus bezichtigt. Taylor, der der Ansicht ist, dass das Amt des Pincerna oder Butlers dem Enkel Wilhelms zum ersten Mal von Heinrich I. um das Jahr 1100 verliehen wurde, als er für seine Dienste für diesen Monarchen mit der Baronie Buckenham belehnt wurde, um das Amt des Großsergeanten bei der Butlerie zu bekleiden, ein Amt, das heute bei Krönungen vom Herzog von Norfolk ausgeübt wird, wobei seine Nachkommen einen Teil der Baronie besitzen. Er glaubt, dass der Begleiter des Eroberers William war, der erste dieses Namens, von dem wir wissen, oder sein Sohn Roger, der Vater des zweiten William, und Nigel de Albini, von dem wir bereits gesprochen haben (S.30).
M. Le Prévost stimmt für Roger, der 1084 eine Schenkung an die Abtei von L'Essai machte. Es gibt keinen Grund, warum er nicht auch an der Schlacht teilgenommen haben sollte.
In Ermangelung schlüssiger Beweise habe ich dieses Kapitel mit William de Albini überschrieben, dem frühesten bekannten Vertreter dieses Namens, der aus der Gemeinde Aubigny in der Nähe von Periers im Cotentin stammt und mit dem der Stammbaum der Familie beginnt.
Dieser Wilhelm heiratete eine Schwester von Grimoult du Plessis, dem Verräter von Valognes und Val-ès-Dunes, der 1047 in seinem Kerker starb (Bd. i., S. 25 und 31), und Wace hat vielleicht doch recht, wenn er ihn "Le Botellier" nennt, denn es ist wahrscheinlich, dass er dieses Amt im Haushalt des Herzogs der Normandie innehatte. Mit seiner Frau, der Schwester von Grimoult (ich habe ihren Namen noch nicht erhellt), hatte er einen Sohn, den erwähnten Roger d'Aubigny, der Amicia oder Avitia, die Schwester von Geoffrey, dem Bischof von Coutances, und von Roger de Montbrai, heiratete und von M. Le Prévost angenommen wird, dass er mit seinen Schwägern in der Schlacht war.
Roger d'Aubigny, oder De Albini, hatte von seiner Frau Avitia de Montbrai fünf Söhne: William, bekannt als William de Albini "Pincerna" (d.h. Butler), Vorfahre der Grafen von Sussex, der Maud, Tochter von Roger le Bigod, heiratete und 1139 starb. Richard, Abt von St. Albans, Nigel, Humphrey und Ruafon, oder Ralph. Nigel, der dritte Sohn, war der Erbe von Robert de Montbrai oder Mowbray, seinem Vetter ersten Grades, dessen Frau er zu Lebzeiten ihres Mannes mit Erlaubnis von Papst Paschal heiratete und sie aus Rücksicht auf ihre adligen Eltern eine Zeit lang mit Respekt behandelte; Aber nach dem Tod ihres Bruders Gilbert de l'Aigle, der keine Nachkommen von ihr hatte, strebte er listig eine Scheidung an, mit der Begründung eben jener Verwandtschaft, auf die er so viel Einfluss ausübte, um den Papst zu veranlassen, sie zu übersehen, und heiratete dann Gundred, die Tochter von Gerrard de Gournay, von der er Roger hatte, der den Namen Mowbray annahm und ihn an seine Nachkommen, Herzöge von Norfolk und Earls Marshal von England, weitergab; und Henri, Stammvater der Linie der Albini von Kainho.
Um auf den ersten William zurückzukommen, ist es klar, dass seine Enkel nur Kleinkinder waren, selbst wenn sie 1066 geboren wurden, und daher glaube ich, dass es der William, dann Pincerna, und wahrscheinlich auch Roger, sein Sohn, waren, die Begleiter des Eroberers in seiner Expedition waren; Rogers ältester Bruder William war zu der Zeit in der Normandie in Ungnade gefallen und wurde nicht wieder in die Gunst zurückgebracht oder durfte England vor der Herrschaft von Rufus betreten, oder es könnte Heinrich I. gewesen sein.
Von William de Albini, dem dritten Sohn und Nachfolger von William II. und Maud le Bigod, wurde eine romantische Geschichte erfunden, um den Löwen zu erklären, den seine Nachkommen später trugen.
Nachdem er das Herz der Königinwitwe von Frankreich durch sein galantes Verhalten in einem Turnier in Paris erobert hatte, bot sie ihm an, ihn zu heiraten, eine Ehre, die er respektvoll ablehnte, da er bereits einer Dame in England sein Wort und seine Treue gegeben hatte, einer anderen Königinwitwe, keiner geringeren Persönlichkeit als Adeliza, der Witwe von König Heinrich I. von England. Seine Weigerung erzürnte die französische Königin so sehr, dass sie mit ihren Dienern ein Komplott schmiedete, um ihn zu vernichten, indem sie ihn dazu brachte, in eine Höhle in ihrem Garten zu gehen, wo ein Löwe zu diesem Zweck platziert worden war; aber der unerschrockene Graf rollte seinen Mantel um seinen Arm, stieß seine Hand in das Maul des Löwen, riss ihm die Zunge heraus und schickte sie durch eine ihrer Mägde zur Königin. "Zum Zeichen dieser edlen und tapferen Tat", so Brooke in seinem "Catalogue of Nobility", "nahm dieser William an, als Wappen einen goldenen Löwen in einem goldenen Feld zu tragen, was seine Nachfolger seitdem beibehielten."
Da dieser dritte William de Albini erst 1176 starb, ist es möglich, dass er ein Wappen annahm, aber der Löwe wurde wahrscheinlich zuerst von seinem Sohn, dem zweiten Earl of Arundel aus der Linie von Aubigny, getragen, als Zeichen seiner Abstammung von Adeliza, der Witwe von Heinrich I., in dessen Regierungszeit wir den frühesten Beweis dafür haben, dass goldene Löwen als persönliche Dekoration, wenn nicht sogar als heraldisches Zeichen angenommen wurden.
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William "Strong Hand" d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel and Sussex 1st Earl of Lincoln
Auch bekannt als: "Albini", "d'Aubeny", "de Albini", "d'Aubigny", "William the strong hand", "William d'Albini", "William de Albini", "William de Albini II", "William de Albini and William de Albini II", ""Strong Hand""
Titel: Strong Hand, First Earl of Arundel, EARL OF SUSSEX AND ARUNDEL, EARL OF SUSSEX AND ARUM DEL, KNOWN AS THE LION SLAYER, 1st Degree E. Arundel, Comte, Baron, Grand Bouteiller
Geburtsdatum: 1100
Geburtsort: Saint-Sauveur-la-Pommeraye, Basse-Normandie, France or Buckenham, Norfolk, England
Sterbedatum: 12 Oktober 1176 (75-76 Jahre alt)
Grab:Waverley Abbey, Surrey, England (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Eltern: William "Pincerna" d'Aubigny und Maud Bigod
Geschwister: Oliver d' Aubigny, of Bokenham; Olivia d'Aubigny of Arundel, I; Nele d'Aubigny und Roland d'Aubigny
Kinder: Agnes d'Aubigny of Arundel; William IV d'Aubigny 2nd Earl of Arundel & Sussex; Cecily D'Aubigny; Rayner Reyner d'Aubigny of Arundel; Henry d'Aubigny of Arundel und 4 andere
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¬ WILLIAM DE ALBINI in der Battle Abbey roll
William de Albini, surnamed Pincerna, son of Roger de Albini, and elder brother of Nigel de Albini, whose posterity, under the name of Mowbray, attained such eminence in after ages, accompanied the Duke of Normandy to England, and acquired extensive estates by royal grants in the county of Norfolk and elsewhere; of which was the lordships of Bokenham, to be holden by the service of being butler to the kings of England on the day of their coronation.
William de Albini, a munificent benefactor to the church, founded the abbey of Wymundham, in Norfolk, and bestowed his lands in Stavell, on the church of St. Etienne, at Caen, in Normandy.
His son and heir, William de Albini, was surnamed "
William with the Strong Hand
," from a gallant achievement performed by him at a tournament at Paris: and quaintly related by Dugdale in his Baronage. He subsequently obtained the hand of the Queen Adeliza, relict of King Henry I, and daughter of GODFREY, DUKE OF LORRAINE, which Adeliza had the CASTLE Of ARUNDEL in dowry from the deceased monarch, and thus her new lord became its feudal earl.
With this potent noble's grandson, HUGH DE ALBINI
, fourth Earl, who died s.p. in 1243, this branch of the great house of Albini expired, while its large possessions devolved upon the earl's sisters as coheiresses; thus Mabel, the eldest, married to Robert de Tateshall, had the castle and manor of Buckenham; Isabel, the second, married to John Fitzalan, Baron of Clun and Oswestry, had the castle and manor of Arundel, which conveyed the earldom to her husband; Nicola, the third, married to Roger de Somery, had the manor of Barwe, in Leicestershire; and Cecilie, the fourth, married to Roger de Montalt, had the castle of Rising, in Norfolk.
--(Battle Abbey roll)