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Birth:          ABT 1090 Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_d%27Aubigny_(Brito)
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I07594
The following information was contained in a post-em by Curt Hofemann, 
curt_hofemann AT yahoo.com:


inherited Belvoir from her mother [Ref: CP IX:578(c), KeatsRohan Belvoir p3]

Cecily LE BIGOD. Died After 1164. Heir of her mother in Belvoir. Cecily was alive 
when her son granted the church of Redmile, Leics to Belvoir Priory in about 1165. 
[Ref: Richard Borthwick 14 Jul 1999 citing: Keats-Rohan Family Trees 175, Keats-
Rohan Domesday People I:380, Sanders p12, Wareham XVII:230]

Cecily 'de Belvoir' (dau of Roger Bigod), m. William d'Aubigny the Breton, who had 
obtained part of the fee of Belvoir before Cecily's mother was given possession of it; 
this marriage, therefore, may have been arranged to settle rival claims. Cecily 
eventually inherited Belvoir from her mother (Hist. MSS. Com., Rutland MSS., vol. iv. 
pp. 106-7, 144, 161) [Ref: Utz 10 Jan 1999 citing: Geoffrey H. White essay on 
"Norfolk" in CP IX:578(c)]

I. J. Sanders, English Baronies, in his discussion of Belvoir, Leicestershire, p. 12, 
says: "Robert de Todeni, Domesday lord of Belvoir, d. 1088. William, s. and h., d.s.p. 
when his heir for Belvoir was his sister Alice.

"Alice m. Roger Bigod d. 1107 of Framlingham, q.v. She d. post Aug. 1127 leaving 
Cecily.
"Cecily m. William I de Albini Brito d. 1133-55.[3] William II d'Aubigny d. 1168 leaving 
William III, a minor, d. 1236. . . ."

Footnote 3 reads: "Regesta, ii, no. 1495; Rutland MSS, iv, pp. 144, 161. William 
seems to have controlled part of the Belvoir estate before the death of Alice (idem, p. 
107). William witnesses letters dated 1133 but the early pipe rolls of Henry II give no 
evidence of his death (Regesta, ii, nos. 1777, 1798)."

[Sanders' phrase, "leaving Cecily," clearly implies, from his usage throughout ". . . as 
daughter and heir."]
Anthony Wagner, English Genealogy, p. 66, comments: ". . . William d'Aubigny the 
Breton did indeed succeed a son of Robert de Tony at Belvoir, but it was, as Round 
showed, in virtue of his marriage to Robert's granddaughter Cicely.[3]" Footnote 3 
reads: "Hist. MSS. Comm. MSS. of the Duke of Rutland, iv. 106; Complete Peerage, 
ix, 577. [Ref: Utz 10 Jan 1999 (Alan B. Wilson 14 Dec 1997)]

More important in terms of size in England, the lordship of Belvoir was nonetheless the 
lesser of the two Tosny lordships because it was not associated with their Norman 
heritage. As the inheritance of a woman married to an important tenant-in-chief it 
could be expected to pass to one of her younger children and not her husband's 
principal male heir. Since she had no surviving younger sons after 1120, the 
devolution of Belvoir to one of her daughters was inevitable. Gunnor and Matilda had 
long since been provided for from their father's inheritance by the time, after c. 
1115/1118, that Adelisa succeeded to Belvoir. Consequently it was the youngest 
daughter Cecilia - quite probably a mere infant at her father's death in 1107 - who 
became her mother's heiress. She was, of course , an heiress whose marriage could 
advantageously be used to reward one of the king's loyal new men. Cecilia's marriage 
to William de Albini Brito has been said to have occurred as early as 1107 on the 
basis of a Belvoir charter given by Ralph de Raines and attested by Roger Bigod, but 
it certainly took place much later. The Belvoir charter just mentioned probably begins 
to the early 1140s . It was attested by William de Albini senior and his wife Cecilia, 
their son William junior, Roger Bigot, Robert de Toteneio, Ralph de Albeneio and 
others.[17] Since William, Robert and Ralph were certainly sons of William and Cecilia 
it is clear that Roger Bigod was also, as is confirmed by the order of their sons 
William, Robert, Roger, listed in the Thorney Liber vitae (BL Add, 40,000, fol. 2r)

[17] Mon. Ang. ii, 289, no. 111. [Ref: PROSOPON 9 Belvoir: The Heirs of Robert and 
Berengar de Tosny by K.S.B. Keats-Rohan 
http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/research/prosop/PRSPN9.stm]

Regards,
Curt

Parents
BIGOD Roger (1060 - 15 Sep 1107)
DE TOSNY Adeliza (ABT 1070 - 1135)

Siblings
BIGOD Maud (Mary) (ABT 1085 - )
BIGOD Cecily (ABT 1090 - )
BIGOD Jane (ABT 1093 - )
BIGOD Hugh (ABT 1095 - 1177)
BIGOD Gunnora (ABT 1096 - )

Marriage To D'AUBIGNY William (ABT 1090 - AFT 1148)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
D'AUBIGNY Main (ABT 1055 - )
DE BOHUN Adelaide (Adeliza) (ABT 1065 - )

Children by D'AUBIGNY William ABT 1090 - AFT 1148
D'AUBIGNY William ("Le Breton") (1113 - BEF 1168)
D'AUBIGNY [D'ALBINI] Ralph (ABT 1126 - 1191)

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