William d'Aubigny

- 1221

• Name	William d'Aubigny
  Gender	Male
  Died	1 Feb 1221	Cainell, near Rome   [1, 2, 3]
  Alternate death	Mar 1221	near Rome   [4, 5]
  Alternate death	Bef 30 Mar 1221	Cainell, near Rome   [3, 6]
  Buried	Wymondham Priory, Norfolk, England   [1, 3, 6]
  Person ID	I6881	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2019

  
  

  Father	William d'Aubigny,   d. 24 Dec 1193
  Mother	Maud de St. Hilary,   b. of Field Dalling, Norfolk, England ,   d. 24 Dec 1193
  Family ID	F1887	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mabel of Chester
  Children	+ 1. Isabel d'Aubigny,   d. Bef 1240 + 2. Nichole d'Aubigny,   b. of Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, England ,   d. Abt 1240 + 3. Maud d'Aubigny,   d. Between 1238 and 1243 + 4. Cecily d'Aubigny,   d. Aft 1260
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2018
  Family ID	F5212	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Earl of Arundel; Earl of Sussex. Chief Butler of England; Privy Councillor; Judge in the King's Court 1198, 1200, 1218. A King's man at Runnymede. Went on Crusade in 1218; was present at the siege of Damietta. "In the beginning he was one of King John's favourites, but he joined the baronial party opposing the King in 1216 after the sealing of the Magna Carta. According to the Barnwell Chronicle, when the barons met in London in 1216 to plan the division of England among them, they assigned to d'Aubigny the government of Lincolnshire. In 1217 he switched his support back to the young Henry III." [Leo van de Pas] From Complete Peerage I:236-38: William (d'Aubigny), Earl of Sussex, and Earl of Arundel, s. & h. He was a favorite of King John, whose concession of the Kingdom to the Pope, 15 May 1213, he witnessed, and whom he accompanied to Runnymede, 15 June 1215. (d) When, however, King John abandoned Winchester, 14 June 1216, to Louis (afterwards Louis VIII) of France, he joined that Prince, but (consistently taking the winning side) returned to his allegiance 14 July 1217, after the Royalist victory at Lincoln. Shortly afterwards he acted as Justiciar, the young King, Henry III, having restored to him his forfeited possessions. He m. Mabel, 2nd da. of Hugh (le Meschin, surnamed Kevelioc), Earl of Chester, by Bertrade, da. of Simon, Count of Evreux in Normandy. She, in her issue, was (1232) one of the four coheirs to her br. Ranulph (surnamed Blundeville), Earl of Chester. He embarked in the crusade of 1218, and was at the taking of Damietta in Nov. 12 19, but d. at Cainell, near Rome, ("quoddam oppidulum Kainel nomine") shortly before 30 Mar. 1221 (when the news reached England) and was bur. at Wynmondham Priory. (d) His namesake of Belvoir became one of the sureties for the King's observance of Magna Charta as 'William d'Aubigny, Sheriff of Warwick and Leicester.'

  
  

• Sources

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