Nigel De Albini 
Nigel was born in 1080 in Normandy, France. Nigel's father was Roger D'Aubigny and his mother is Amice De Mowbray. He had four brothers named Richard, Raufon, William and Humphrey. He was the youngest of the five children. He died at the age of 79 in 1159. He was buried in Abbey of Bec, Normandy, France.General Notes
Alias:<ALIA> Scutifer /Conquestoris/
REFN: 4083AN
REFN: P4084
Sir Nigel d'Albini, who came to England with the Conqueror and obtained
several extensive lordships after the Battle of Hastings. He was knight
by HenryI, who conferred many grants and favors upon him, and so
attached him to hissovereign that he served him faithfully in his cause
against Robert Curthose(Robert of Normandy, Crusader), the King's
brother, whom he captured and delivered over to King Henry, for which he
had further rich grants of confiscated manors. For distinguished milita
services in Normandy he was remunerated by a royal grant of the forfeit
lands and castles of his maternal uncle, Robert de Mowbray, both in
Normandy and England. These grants made him possessor of 240 knight's
fees, and consequently one of the most influential barons of his tim
died at an advanced age and was buried with his ancestors in the Abb
Bec in Normandy. He married first his Aunt Maud (wife of his Uncle
Robert), daughter of Richard, Baron Aquila. by papal dispensation, her
husband Robert aforesaid being then alive, but in prison for rebellion.
From her, by whom he had no issue, he was separated by the Pope on
account of consanguinity and the scandal the marriage caused. He married
2nd in 1118 Gundreda,daughter of Gerald, second Baron de Gournay by his
wife Edith, daughter of William de Warren, first Earl of Surrey and his
wife Gundreda, daughter of William the Conqueror. By his 2nd wife he had
Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron.
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Children
Roger D'Aubigny
Roger was born in 1120 in Axholme, Lincoln, England. He died at the age of 68 in 1188. He was buried in Abby of Byland.
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