William d'Aubigny Lord of Belvoir

• Preferred Name: William d'Aubigny Lord of Belvoir^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: Magna Carta Surety and Governor of Rochester Castle
  
• Birth: ABT 1160 in Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.7139 LONG: E1.1015
  
• FSID: GFB8-KW2
  
• Burial: AFT 1 MAY 1236 in Newstead Priory, Nottinghamshire, England at LATI: N3.0749 LONG: E1.19
  
• Death: 1 MAY 1236 in Uffington, Lincolnshire at LATI: N2.6561 LONG: E0.4302 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Belvoir, 3rd Baron of Belvoir
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Biography
  Birth and Parentage
  William d'Albini or d'Aubigny was the son of William d'Albini and Maud/Matida de Senlis.
  
  William was a minor when his father died: his father's lands were taken into the king's hands (with an allowance being paid for William and his siblings), and not released until 1172, when it is likely that William came of age. This points to a birth date of about 1151.
  
  Up to the reign of King John
  William witnessed charters of King Henry II. From 1190 to 1193 he was Constable of Peveril Castle, known as the Castle of the Peak. He fought in Normandy in the first half of the 1190s.[ When the future King John rebelled against his brother Richard I, William fought on Richard's side and he was granted a confiscated estate as a reward. When Richard I was freed from being held in Germany in 1194, William went to meet him at Speyer.
  
  William was Sheriff of several counties in the second half of the 1190s:
  Rutland from 1195 to 1198
  Warwickshire and Leicestershire about 1197
  Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire from 1197 to 1199
  During the 1190s he served as a royal justice on the eyre circuit.
  
  Reign of King John
  William remained in favour following the accession of King John. He was often at court and was given official permission to hunt foxes and hares in royal forests; and his liability to scutage was remitted for most of John's reign. In 1208 he was again a justice on eyre. He sent knights to fight with John's forces in Normandy and fought for John in Ireland in 1210. In 1211 he was made Keeper of the Ports of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
  
  But his relationship with King John was not always easy. In 1201 he and other barons resisted demands to fight in Normandy, and the price of King John letting him retain Belvoir Castle was to hand over a son as hostage. In 1213 he joined other barons in investigating complaints against the royal administration in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
  
  In the early summer of 1215 William joined the barons' rebellion against King John, and he was one of the Surety Barons when the Magna Carta was signed. Later that year he took charge of Rochester Castle, Kent, on behalf of the rebels, but was compelled to surrender and was then held captive in Corfe Castle, Dorset. His life was spared in return for Belvoir Castle being handed over to the royal forces. Along with other rebels he was excommunicated in December 1215.
  
  Reign of Henry III
  William was released soon after the accession of Henry III, in return for agreement to a ransom of 6000 marks, of which 1000 marks was paid upfront, with his econd wife Agatha and a son being given as hostage for the remainder. His wife was exchanged for other hostages in 1217: they were held until 1220. William had by now returned fully to allegiance, and he fought on the royalist side in the Second Battle of Lincoln in May 1217. In 1218 he served again as a royal justice on eyre. His lands were restored in the early years of Henry III's reign, and in 1223 an agreement was reached under which the outstanding amount of his ransom could be paid in annual instalments of 49 marks.
  
  Lands
  William held lands in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and elsewhere. Among his properties was Belvoir Castle, which featured on his seal[1]; and when he came of age he inherited the Barony of Belvoir.
  
  Marriages and Children
  William married twice. His first wife was Margaret de Umfraville, daughter of Odinel de Umfraville. He remarried in about September 1198 so she must have died before then.
  
  William and Margaret had the following children:
  1.) William, his main heir
  
  2.) Odinel
  
  3.) Robert
  
  4.) Nicholas
  
  William's second wife was Agatha de Trussebut, widow of Hamo FitzHamo,they had no children.
  
  Death and Burial
  William died at Uffington, Lincolnshire in May 1236. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives the death date as 6 May[1]; Douglas Richardson, as 7 May. His main remains were buried at Newstead, Lincolnshire; his heart, at Belvoir Priory, Lincolnshire (now in Leicestershire). He had been a benefactor of both Newstead and Belvoir Priories.
  
  Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Biography
  by Professor Nigel Saul
  "William d'Albini (d'Aubigny)
  Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Biography
  by Professor Nigel Saul
  "William d'Albini (d'Aubigny) was a relative latecomer to the baronial opposition cause, but one of the movement's ablest military comma
  
  === Source: Please cite original sources. ===
  Source: Please cite original sources.
  Compiled by: J. K. Loren

• m. AFT 1200

1. Alice Albinaco, b. ABT 1182 in Naburn, Yorkshire, England    
2. William d'Aubigny, b. ABT 1188 in England     d. ABT 4 SEP 1242 in England

1. Title: William d'Aubigny, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGR-CX5H : 15 June 2022), William d'Aubigny, ; Burial, Newstead, Gedling Borough, Nottinghamshire, England, Newstead Abbey; citing record ID 132064122, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGR-CX5H;