General Notes

William de Albini, feudal Lord of Belvoir, in the 6th of Richard I[1195], was with that monarch in the army in Normandy, and the next yearwas sheriff of the counties of Warwick and Leicester, as he wassubsequently of Rutlandshire. In the 2nd of King John [1201], he hadspecial license to make a park at Stoke, in Northampton, and liberty tohunt the fox and hare (it lying within the royal forest of Rockingham).Afterwards, however, he took up arms with the other barons and, leavingBelvoir well fortified, he assumed the governorship of Rochester Castle,which he held out for three months against the Royalists, and ultimatelyonly surrendered when reduced to the last state of famine. Upon thesurrender of Rochester, William Albini was sent prisoner to Corfe Castle,and there detained until his freedom became one of the conditions uponwhich Belvoir capitulated, and until he paid a ransom of 6,000 marks. Inthe reign of Henry III, we find him upon the other side and a principalcommander at the battle of Lincoln, anno 1217, where his formerassociates sustained so signal a defeat. This stout baron, who had beenone of the celebrated twenty-five appointed to enforce the observance ofMagna Carta, m. 1st, Margery, dau. of Odonel de Umfraville, by whom hehad had issue, William, Sir Odinel, Robert, and Nicholas, rector ofBottesford. He m. 2ndly, Agatha, dau. and co-heir of William Trusbut, anddying in 1236, was s. by his eldest son, William de Albini. [Sir BernardBurke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage,Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 160, Daubeney, Barons Daubeney, Earl ofBridgewater]