General Notes

Sir Nigel d'Albini, who came to England with the Conqueror and obtainedseveral extensive lordships after the Battle of Hastings. He was knightedby Henry I, who conferred many grants and favors upon him, and soattached him to his sovereign that he served him faithfully in his causeagainst Robert Curthose (Robert of Normandy, Crusader), the King'sbrother, whom he captured and delivered over to King Henry, for which hehad further rich grants of confiscated manors. For distinguished militaryservices in Normandy he was remunerated by a royal grant of the forfeitedlands and castles of his maternal uncle, Robert de Mowbray, both inNormandy and England. These grants made him possessor of 240 knight'sfees, and consequently one of the most influential barons of his time. Hedied at an advanced age and was buried with his ancestors in the Abbey ofBec in Normandy. He married first his Aunt Maud (wife of his UncleRobert), daughter of Richard, Baron Aquila. by papal dispensation, herhusband Robert aforesaid being then alive, but in prison for rebellion.From her, by whom he had no issue, he was separated by the Pope onaccount of consanguinity and the scandal the marriage caused. He married2nd in 1118 Gundreda, daughter of Gerald, second Baron de Gournay by hiswife Edith, daughter of William de Warren, first Earl of Surrey and hiswife Gundreda, daughter of William the Conqueror. By his 2nd wife he hadRoger de Mowbray, 1st Baron.