General Notes

REFN: 1783AN
Alias:<ALIA> William "De Brito" /D'Aubigny/
REFN: P1783
William, who assumed, from what reason is unascertained, the surname of
Albini, and was known as " William De Albini, Brito," in contradistinction
to another great Baron, "Will iam De Albini, Pincerna," from whom the
Earls of Arundel descended. William d e Albini, Brito, Lord of Belvoir, in
the Chapter House of St. Albans, confirm ed all the grants of his father
and mother to the Church of Our Lady at Belvo ir, desiring that he might
be admitted in the fraternity as those his parents had been. This feudal
lord acquired great renown at the celebrated battle of Tinchebray, in
Normandy, where, commanding the horse, he charged the enemy w ith so much
spirit that he determine at once the fate of the day. Of the expl oit,
Matthew Paris says, "In this encounter chiefly deserveth honour the most
heroic William De Albini, the Briton, who, with his sword, broke through
t he enemy, and terminated the battle." He subsequently adhered to the
Empress Maud and had his castle of Belvoir, with all his other lands,
seized by King Stephen and transferred to Ranulph, Earl of Chester. He m.
Maud, dau. of Simo n De St. Liz, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, widow of Robert,
son of Richard De Tunb ridge, and ding about the year 1155, left two sons,
viz., William, surnamed M eschines, and Ralph. [Sir Bernard Burke,
Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Exti nct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd.,
London, England, 1883, p. 160, Daubeney, Barons Daubeney, Earl of
Bridgewater] 3