William d’Aubigny (died 1139)

Pincerna Regis

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1139.

This date is given by Mason (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:233). Mason notes that John of Oxenedes, writing much later, gives the date of William’s death as 1 November, but that Reg. RAN, 3.973 seems to show that he was dead by June of that year.

Relationships

Father: Roger d’Aubigny.

This relationship is given by Mason (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 273).

Mother: Amice (or Avice).

This relationship is given by Mason (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 273).

Spouse: Maud, daughter of Roger le Bigod.

This relationship is given by Mason (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 273), by Sanders (p. 70), and by the Complete Peerage (1:233).

Children:

(Complete source citations for the children are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most of the information below comes from Cawley.)

William d’Aubigny (died 12 October 1176), earl of Arundel, married Adelise de Louvain, the widow of Henry I, in about 1138.

Nele d’Aubigny.

Oliver d’Aubigny.

Roland d’Aubigny.

Oliva d’Aubigny married Ralph de la Haye.

References

Cawley, Charles. “William "Pincerna" d'Aubigny” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59) Volume 5.

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

Mason, J.F.A. “Aubigny, William d’ (d. 1139)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Sanders, Ivor John. English Baronies (Oxford: 1960).