General Notes

!A munificent benefactor to the church, founded the abbey of Wymundham in Norfolk, and bestowed his lands in Stavell on the church of St. Etienne at Caen, Normandy. [Roll of the Battle Abbey]

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!Known as William Pincerna Henrici Regis Anglorum, the king's butler, ancestor of the ancient Earls of Arundel. [Magna Charta Barons, p. 115]

Son of Roger d'Aubigny and Amicia de Mowbray; m. Maud Bigot. Pincerna to Henry I (r. 1100-35). [Falaise Roll, p. 6]

William d'Aubigny 'pincerna' enfeoffed Peter de Cesaris Burgo of 3 knights' fees. A charter of William's to the church of Rochester was witnessed by his knights, among whom were Ralf de Chiersburgh, Nigel del Wast and Richard Caneleu. Le Vast and Canteloup are close to Cherbourg. Ralf de Chieresburgh was
William d'Aubigny's butler. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 27]

William d'Aubigny pincerna, who d. 1139, enfeoffed Richard de Costentin of half a knight's fee in Kent, which with other fees was given by his son the earl of Arundel to John count of Eu in marriage with his dau. Alice. Aubigny itself and William's Norman lands lay in the Cotentin. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 34]

Cupbearer for William the Conqueror; father of William d'Aubigny, 2nd husband of the Dowager Queen Adelicia, widow of Henry I. [The Conquering Family, p. 11]

Son of Roger d'Aubigny and Amice; m. Maud Bigod. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]

Father of William who m. Adeliza. [WFT vol 6 Ped 1102]

The foundation of Castle Rising was about 1138 by the second generation in England of the family of Albini, a date and occasion which in turn is confirmed by the date of the present parish church at Rising, necessarily built in association with the castle. [Castle Rising, p. 6-8]

Soon after Bishop Odo of Bayeux' fall from grace in 1088, William Rufus granted the manor of Snettisham and Rising, with the hundreds of Freebridge and Smithdon and a half-share of the customs and tolls of Lynn to William de Albini, which grant was subsequently confirmed by Henry I, though this time in inheritance. We do not yet, however, have to suppose the foundation of the castle by the new lord of Rising, for William de Albini also at this time became lord of Buckenham (Norfolk) where there is the impressive site of an early castle attributable to him, and which evidently became his principal seat, and the head or caput of his Norfolk lands which afterwards were known as the honour of Buckenham. As late as 1243, when the Albini inheritance was
divided, Buckenham went to the eldest heir as the original patrimony.
   The family of Albini or Aubigny, of which more than one branch was to be established in England as the result of the Norman Conquest, came from St-Martin d'Aubigny in Normandy, in the district of the Cotentin and the diocese of Coutances. [Castle Rising, p. 8-9]

Migrated to England during reign of Henry I; occupie of Castle of Arundel; Pincerna Regis; d. 1139; son of Roger d'Aubigny and Amice; m. Maud le Bigod; father of William I d'Aubigny. [Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, and Other Ancestors, Chart 2928]

William de Albini (d'Aubigny) II, surnamed Pincerna, whose posterity assumed, and attained such eminence, under the name of Mowbray accompanied William the Conqueror into England, and acquired extensive territorial possessions by royal grants in Norfolk and other counties. Of these grants was the lordship of
Bokenham, to be held by the service of being Butler to the Kings of England on the day of their coronation, and in consequence we find this William styled in divers charters "Pincerna Henrici Regis Anglorum." William de Albini founded the Abbey of Wymondham in Norfolk.
   William de Albini also gave to the monks of Rochester the tithes of his manor of Elham; also one carucat of land in Achestede, with a wood called Acholte. He likewise bestowed upon the Abbey of St. Etienne at Caen, in Normandy, all his lands lying in Stavell, which grant he made in the presence of King Henry and his barons. He married Matilda Bigod, daughter of Roger Bigod, with whom he obtained 10 knight's fees in Norfolk.
   At the obsequies of Maud, William de Albini gave to the monks of Wymondham, the manor of Hapesburg, in pure alms, and made livery thereof to the said monks by a cross of silver in which (says Dugdale) was placed certain venerable reliques, vix., "part of the wood of the cross whereon our Lord was crucified; part of the sepulchre of the blessed Virgin; as also a gold ring, and a sliver chalice, for retaining the holy Eucharist, admirably wrought in the form of a sphere; unto which pious donation his three sons were witnesses, with several other persons." The exact time of the decease of this grat feudal lord is not certain (Crispin and Macary state that he died in 1139), but it is known that he was buried before the high altar in the Abbey of Wymondham, and that the monks were in the constant habit of praying for his soul, by the name of "William de Albini, the king's butler." He was father of:
1. William, his successor
2. Nigel
3. Oliver
4. Oliva who m. Raphe de Haya
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