General Notes

WILLIAM (D'AuBIGNY), EARL OF SUSSEX, and EARL OF ARUNDEL, son and heir.He was a favourite of King John, whose concession of the Kingdom to thePope, 15 May 1213, he witnessed, and whom he accompanied to Runnymede, 15June 1215. When, however, King John abandoned Winchester, 14 June 1216,to Louis (afterwards Louis VIII) of France, he joined that Prince, but(consistently taking the winning side) returned to his allegiance I 4July 12 I 7, after the Royalist victory at Lincoln. Shortly afterwards heacted as JUSTICIAR, the young King, Henry III, having restored to him hisforfeited possessions. He married Mabel 2nd daughter of Hugh (LE MESCHINsurnamed KEVELIOC), EARL OF CHESTER, by Bertrade, daughter of Simon,COUNT OF EVREUX in Normandy. She, in her issue, was (1232) one of thefour coheirs to her brother Ranulph (surnamed BLUNDEVILLE), EARL OFCHESTER. He embarked in the crusade of I2I8. and was at the taking ofDamietta in Nov. 1219, but died at Cainell, near Rome, ("quoddamoppidulum Kainel nomine") shortly before 30 March 1221 [when the newsreached England], and was buried at Wymondham Priory. [Complete PeerageI:236]

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William de Albini, Earl of Arundel, (d 1221), and grandson of thepreceding , also styled Earl of Sussex, was son of William, the secondearl, whom he succeeded in 1196.  He was a favourite of King John; hewitnessed John's concession of the kingdom to the pope (15 June 1213),and accompanying him to Runnymede (15 June 1215), became one of thesureties for his faithful observance of the charter; but on John'sabandonment of Winchester to Lousi (14 June 1216) he went over to thewinning side.  After the royalist victory at Lincoln he returned to hisallegiance (14 July 1217), and shortly after acted as justiciar.  In 1218he set sail for the East, took part in the siege of Damietta (1219), anddied in Italy on his way home, his son doing homage for his lands, 12April 1221. [Dictionary of National Biography I:234]

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William de Albini, 4th earl, m. Mabel, second of the four sisters andco-heiresses of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, with whom he obtained greatlanded property. At he, however, died issueless in 1224, or, by somestatements, in 1233, his honours devolved upon his only brother, then inminority, Hugh de Albini, 5th earl. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant,Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p.3, Albini, Earls of Arundel]