Lord of Buckingham William d'Aubigney 
William was born in 1064 in St. Sauveur, France.1 William's father was Roger d'Aubigny and his mother was Amice de Grentemesnil. His paternal grandparents were William d'Aubigny and Adelicia Belvoir de Plessis; his maternal grandparents were Hugh de Grentemesnil and Adeliza de Beaumont. He had two brothers named Nigel and Roger. He was the oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 75 in 1139. He was buried in Priory Wymondham, England.2 3 General Notes
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William de Albini, surnamed Pincerna, son of Roger de Albini and elder brother of Nigel de Albini, whose posterity assumed and attained such eminence under the name of Mowbray, accompanied 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 holden 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 and gave to the monks of Rochester the tithes of the manor of Elham, as also one carucate 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 m. Maude, dau. of Roger Bigot, with whom he obtained ten knights' 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, viz., "part of the wood of the cross whereon our Lord was crucified; part of the manger wherein he was laid at his birth; and part of the sepulchre of the Blessed Virgin; as also a gold ring, and a silver chalice for retaining the Holy Eucharist, admirably wrought in 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 great feudal baron is not ascertained, 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." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 2, Albini, Earls of Arundel]
# Note: Occupation: Royal Butler. Migrated to England during the reign of Henry I. Occupied the Castle of Arundel Earl of Albemarle.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0905 in St. Saveur, Normandy, France d.0972
- b.0940
- b.0911 in Bretagne
- b.0980 in St. Sauveur, Normandy, France d.1071
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- b.1010 in St. Martin D'Aubigny, France d.1066
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Faecamp, Normandie d.20 Nov 0996 in Faecamp, Normandie
- b.0953 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1015 in Eu, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France
- b.0935 in Brionne, Normandy, France
- b.0985 in Eu, Dieppe, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.0930 in Castle at Guines, Pas-de-Calais, France d.0968
- b.0958 in Castle at Guines, Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.0937 in Ghent, Flanders d.0970
- b.1045 in Aubigny, Normandy, France d.1084
- b.0955 in Plessis-Mace, France
- b.0990 in Plessis, Normandy, France d.1064
<Unknown>
- b.1020
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- b.1064 in St. Sauveur, France d.1139
- b.0960 in Bretagne, France
- b.0990 in Grentemesnil, Calvados, Normandy, France d.17 Jun 1039 in Grentemesnil, Calvados, Normandy, France
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- b.1030 in Grentemesnil, Calvados, Normandy, France d.22 Feb 1092 in Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.0935 in Bastembourg, Normandy, France d.0978 in Heismes, Normandy, France
- b.0968 in Heismes, Normandy, France d.1020 in Eschafour, Normandy, France
- b.0945 in Montanolier, Normandy, France
- b.1007 in Eschafour, Normandy, France
- b.0928 in Chateau Briquebec, Manche, Normandy, France d.0997 in Montfort-Sur-Risle, Normandy, France
- b.0972 in Montfort-Sur-Risle, Normandy, France
- b.0930 in Manche, Normandy, France
- b.1045 d.1084
- d.1035
- b.0975 in Beaumont-sur-Oise, Normandy, France d.1022 in Beaumont-sur-Oise, Normandy, France
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- b.1005 in Beaumont, Sur-Oise, Normandy, France d.22 May 1059 in Beaumont-sur-Oise, Normandy, France
- b.1130 in Mauvoisin, Nord, France d.01 Sep 1192
- b.0980 in Beaumont, Sur-Oise, Normandy, France d.1039 in France
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- b.1035 in Beaumont, France d.11 Jul 1091 in Rouen, Normandy, France
- b.0960 in Gournay, Normandy, France
- b.0985 in Gournay-sur-Marne, Normandy, France d.1074 in Gournay-sur-Marne, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
- b.1008 in Beaumont, Sur-Oise, Normandy, France d.08 Apr 1099
- b.0985 in Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.1000 in Normandy, France d.16 Jan 1098
- b.1003
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Details of William's family with Mary Bigod
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=tamer&id=I13194&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tamer&id=I13199
3 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I11548&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tamer&id=I13199
3 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I11548&style=TABLE
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