Drusiana d’Aubigny

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1221 or after.

Place of Death: unknown.

In a post to soc.genealogy.medieval, John Watson cites a suit in the Curia Regis Rolls in Easter Term, 5 Henry III, in which “Drusiane que fuit uxor Radulfi de Nevill” is mentioned.

Relationships

Father: Elias d’Aubigny of Ingleby.

Drusiana’s brother Philip is recorded as the brother of Oliver (Nichols 4:1:157), who is recorded as the son of Elias (Dugdale 6:2:866, Num. IV). Nichols notes: “Oliver was father (it is supposed) to Philip de Albany, who, about the beginning of king Henry III. gave it to Ralph de Nevill his nephew”, but an editorial note in Sir Christopher Hatton’s Book of Seals states: “The manor of Enderby was given to Oliver by Parnell countess of Leicester, a gift confirmed by King John, 16 Dec. 1204 (Rot. Chart. i. 140); Oliver gave land in Enderby to Croxton abbey, which was confirmed by his brother Philip (Nichols, iv, pt. i, 157). Oliver must have died without issue and been succeeded by Philip.”

Mother: Hawise.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 271). It is recorded in Dugdale (6:2:866, Num. IV).

Spouse: Ralph de Neville

In a charter dated to early Henry III, before 1236, Philip d’Aubigny gave his manor of Enderby to his nephew Ralph de Nevill: “...ego Philippus de Albiniaco dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi Radulfo de Nevilla nepoti meo totum manerium meum de Endredby…” (Hatton, no. 35). In a note, the editors state “The grantor is Philip d’Aubigny, bailiff of the Channel Islands in the reign of Henry III. A charter of his for Le Mont-St-Michel has a seal identical with that of the present charter, and among the witnesses to that charter are ‘P. de Garclip. B. fratre suo’ (Cartulaire des Isle Normandes, Soc. Jersiaise, pl. vii and p. 25). For an account of the family see CP, 2nd ed. iv. 93 et seq.” In a post to soc.genealogy medieval, John Watson gives evidence from the Curia Regis rolls that the relationship was through Drusiana d’Aubigny. Enderby eventually passed to Robert de Nevill, son of Philip de Nevill, son of Robert de Nevill and Eustache (Hatton no. 36).

Children:

(Complete source citations for the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Robert de Neville married Eustache Trian.

Ralph de Neville.

Evidence

From Nichols (4:1:157):

This Oliver appears among the benefactors to the abbot and convent of Croxton in this county, as appears by an extract from their original Register: “Habemus in Endreby, de dono Oliveri de Aubeny, II virgatas terre, cum toto messuagio, in liberam, puram, & perpetuam eleemosinum, cum corpore sua (quas Martinus filius Adelstani tenuit) cum eodem & tota: sequelâ suâ, quietas ab omni servicio. Item Philippus de Aubeney, frater predicti Oliveri, die:tam donationem nobis confirmavit, secundum tenorem carte dicti: Oliveri.È

References

Dugdale, William; Henry J Ellis; Bulkeley Bandinel; Roger Dodsworth; and John Caley. Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales, also of such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries as were any manner connected with religious houses in England. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1817-1830).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Nichols, John. The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester:Volume 4, part 1 (1807).

Sir Christopher Hatton’s Book of Seals, ed. Lewis C. Loyd and Doris Mary Stenton, (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1950).