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Birth:          AFT 1146 Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
Death:          1 May 1236 Offington, Leicestershire, England
Burial:         Newstead Abbey

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_d%27Aubigny_(rebel)
William d'Aubigny or D'Aubeney or d'Albini, Lord of Belvoir (died 1 May 1236) was a 
prominent member of the baronial rebellions against King John of England, and a 
prominent member of the D'aubeney family.
Family background[edit]

D'Aubigny was the son of William d'Aubigny of Belvoir and grandson of William 
d'Aubigny, and was heir to Domesday Book landholder Robert de Todeni, who held 
many properties, possibly as many as eighty. Amongst them was one in Leicestershire, 
where he built Belvoir Castle, which was the family's home for many generations.[1] He 
was High Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicester and High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and 
Buckinghamshire in 1199.

Involvement in military actions[edit]

D'Aubigny stayed neutral at the beginning of the troubles of King John's reign, only 
joining the rebels after the early success in taking London in 1215. He was one of the 
twenty-five sureties or guarantors of the Magna Carta. In the war that followed the 
sealing of the charter, he held Rochester Castle for the barons, and was imprisoned 
(and nearly hanged) after John captured it. He became a loyalist on the accession of 
Henry III in October 1216, and was a commander at the Second Battle of Lincoln on 
20 May 1217.[2]

Death[edit]

He died on 1 May 1236, at Offington, Leicestershire, and was buried at Newstead 
Abbey and "his heart under the wall, opposite the altar at Belvoir Castle".[1] He was 
succeeded by his son, another William d'Aubigny, who died in 1247 and left only 
daughters. One of them was Isabel, a co-heiress, who married Robert de Ros.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I06352
William Daubigny, b. after 1146, Lord of Belvoir, co. Leicester, succeeded 1167/8, d. 
1 May 1236, Magna Charta Surety 1215; m. (1) Margery, daughter of Odinel de 
Umfreville, d. 1182, lord of Prudhoe, co. Northumberland; m. (2) Agatha Trussebut, d. 
1247, widow of Hamo FitzHamo, d. 1197/8, lord of Wolverton, co. Buckingham, 
daughter and coheir of William Trussebut, d. c 1176, lord of Hunsingore, co. York. 
[Magna Charta Sureties]

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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]

Parents
D'AUBIGNY William ("Le Breton") (1113 - BEF 1168)
FITZ ROBERT Maud (ABT 1120 - )

Siblings
D'AUBIGNY William (AFT 1146 - 1 May 1236)

Marriage To DE UMFREVILLE Margaret (Margery) (ABT 1148 - BEF Sep 1198)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE UMFREVILLE Odinel (ABT 1125 - ABT 1171)
DE LUCY Alice (ABT 1129 - 1197)

Children by DE UMFREVILLE Margaret (Margery) ABT 1148 - BEF Sep 1198
D'AUBIGNY William IV (ABT 1165 - 15 Sep 1242)

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