General Notes

FOSTER, WAITE LINE

!Father of William Pincerna Henrici Regis Anglorum (the king's butler, ancestor of the ancient Earls of Arundel) and Sir Nigel D'Albini. [Magna Charta Barons, p. 115]

The details of his family's benefactions to the abbey of Lessay as confirmed by a charter of Henry II, 1185-1188, identify St-Martin d'Aubigny with the Aubigny which was the caput of their Norman honour. There is no trace of a feudal castle t Aubigny itself, but Gerville found nearby at LeMesnil-Vigot the remains of a considerable castle with a well-defined motte, then known as le chateau de St- Clair. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 7]

In 1084 Roger de Corcella witnessed a gift of Roger d'Aubigny to the abbey of Lessay. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 33]

b.c. 1040, alive in 1084; son of William d'Aubigny and Mile du Plessis; m. Amice. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 3308c]

b.c. 1045; son of William I d'Aubigny and ?? de Plessis; m. Amice. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]

Roger, who was evidently the eldest son and heir, and thus secure in his patrimony, is not known to have crossed to England in or after 1066, though it is likely that he had two younger brothers who did, namely Nigel, who appears as a tenant-in-chief at Cainhoe and elsewhere in Bedfordshire in Domesday Book and Richard, who became abbot of St Albans from 1097 until his death in 1119. Roger de Albini himself made a grant of property to the abbey of Lessay by a charter dated 1084, in which his son, Rualoc, is associated with him. He had a wife called Amice, who may have been the aunt of Robert de Mowbray, whose lands and honours in Normandy the Albinis were later to acquire. [Castle Rising, p. 10]