William de Albini

• Preferred Name: William de Albini^{[1] [2]}
  
• Alternate Name: William de Meschin
  
• Alternate Name: William Albini
  
• Alternate Name: William the Breton
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Belvoir
  
• FSID: GFGQ-HS3
  
• Birth: ABT 1120 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.8951 LONG: E0.7823 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: BEF 1169 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.8951 LONG: E0.7823 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  «b»Biography
  Per the Medieval Lands project by Charles Cawley:«/b»
  
  WILLIAM [II] de Albini Brito (-1168). "…Willelmu[us] de Albinioc, Cecilia uxor eius, filii eius Willelmus, Rogerius, Matildis filia eius" are listed in the Liber Vitæ of Thorney abbey, another entry in the same folio reading "Willm de Albenico, Cecilia uxor ei[us], Willm, Rodbt, Roger filii ei[us], Matildis, Basilia filie ei[us]…". "Willielmus de Albeneio Brito…et Ceciliam uxorem meam et Willielmum filium meum" donated land to Thorney monastery, Cambridgeshire by undated charter, witnessed by "Rogero et Roberto filiis meis et Warino Ridel et Olivero et Iwan et Gaufrido nepotibus meis et Roberto Brito…". "Willielmus de Albenei Brito" donated "terram de Pipewell…de feodo de Bellovidere" to Thorney monastery, Cambridgeshire, with the consent of "Ceciliæ uxoris meæ et Willelmi filii mei", by undated charter, witnessed by "…tres nepotes mei, Oliverus filius Galfridi et Iwanus et Gaufridus de Cabivin…". "Willielmus de Albineio" donated "ecclesiam de Redmelina" to Belvoir monastery, Lincolnshire, with the consent of "Willielmi filii et hæredis mei et Matildis uxoris meæ et Ceciliæ matris meæ, necnon et Radulphi de Albinei fratris mei", by undated charter. Military fee certifications in the Red Book of the Exchequer, in 1166, record the knights´ fees held by "Willelmi de Albenny Britonis quam pater suus tenuit" in Leicestershire. m MATILDA de Senlis, daughter of ROBERT FitzRichard & his wife Matilda de Senlis (-after 1185). "Willielmus de Albineio" donated "ecclesiam de Redmelina" to Belvoir monastery, Lincolnshire, with the consent of "Willielmi filii et hæredis mei et Matildis uxoris meæ et Ceciliæ matris meæ, necnon et Radulphi de Albinei fratris mei", by undated charter. The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records "Matillis de Sainlis que fuit filia Roberti filii Ricardi et mater Willelmi de Albineio" and "terra sua in Hungertone et in Winewelle".
  
  «b»William [II] & his wife had two children:«/b»
  1.) WILLIAM [III] de Albini Brito (-before 15 May 1236). The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records "Matillis de Sainlis que fuit filia Roberti filii Ricardi et mater Willelmi de Albineio" and "terra sua in Hungertone et in Winewelle".
  
  2.) MATILDA de Albini ([1160/65]-after 1210). A charter dated 1200 records the foundation of Inchaffray Abbey by "Gilbertus filius Ferthead…comes de Stradern et…Matilidis filia Willelmi de Aubengni comitissa", for the soul of "Gillecrist primogeniti nostri ibidem quiescentis". No more precise information has been found about the parentage of Matilda, first wife of Gilbert Earl of Strathearn. From a chronological point of view, it is possible that "Willelmi de Aubengni" was William de Albini Brito, who died in 1168. If this is correct, Matilda must have been born not long before her father´s death as she gave birth to her last child after Oct 1198. It appears that William, son of William who died in 1168, would have been too young to have been Matilda´s father....]
  
  Charter dated c 1168.
  
  May all as well present as to come know that I Wiliam d'Aubigné, by the assent of William my son and heir, and of Matilda my wife, and Cecilia, my mother, and likewise of Ralph d'Aubigné, my brother, and my vassals, have granted and given to God and the church of St. Mary of Belvoir and to the monks there serving God for the redemption of my soul and likewise for the redemption of all my ancestors and of all my kinsmen, the church of Redmill with all its appurtenances to be possessed by them perpetually and rightfully. I will, &c. Witnesses, Robert the chaplain, Thomas, priest of Wyberton, John, steward, Yeven d'Aubigne, constable, Geoffrey de Chauvigny, Osmund de Chauvigny, William des Vaux, Simon FitzWilliam, Ralph FitzWilliam, Alard de St. Hilaire, Ralph FitzHoldewi.
  
  === General Note: ===
  William de Albini, feudal Lord of Belvoir, in the 6th of Richard I [1195], was with that monarch in the army in Normandy, and the next year was sheriff of the counties of Warwick and Leicester, as he was subsequently of Rutlandshire. In the 2nd of King John [1201], he had special license to make a park at Stoke, in Northampton, and liberty to hunt the fox and hare (it lying within the royal forest of Rockingham). Afterwards, however, he took up arms with the other barons and, leaving Belvoir well fortified, he assumed the governorship of Rochester Castle, which he held out for three months against the Royalists, and ultimately only surrendered when reduced to the last state of famine. Upon the surrender of Rochester, William Albini was sent prisoner to Corfe Castle, and there detained until his freedom became one of the conditions upon which Belvoir capitulated, and until he paid a ransom of 6,000 marks. In the reign of Henry III, we find him upon the other side and a principal commander at the battle of Lincoln, anno 1217, where his former associates sustained so signal a defeat. This stout baron, who had been one of the celebrated twenty-five appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta, m. 1st, Margery, dau. of Odonel de Umfraville, by whom he had had issue, William, Sir Odinel, Robert, and Nicholas, rector of Bottesford. He m. 2ndly, Agatha, dau. and co-heir of William Trusbut, and dying in 1236, was s. by his eldest son, William de Albini. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 160, Daubeney, Barons Daubeney, Earl of Bridgewater]

1. William d'Aubigny Lord of Belvoir, b. ABT 1160 in Leicestershire, England     d. 1 MAY 1236 in Uffington, Lincolnshire

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