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Notes for William d'Aubigny Pincera and Maud Bigod

Research Notes:

"The identity of this William with the elder son of Roger d'Aubigny is proved by the following entry in the Liber de Beneficiis Exaquii (Lessay), printed by Delisle, Recueil des Actesde Henri II., vol., Introduction, p. 470: Anno ab incarnatione Domini 1164, Willelmus, venerabilis comes Arundelli, concessit et confirmavit Sancte Trinitati de Exaquio, elemosinas quas Rogerus de Albineio, avus suus, et Willelmus, pater ejus, dederunt eidem abbatie. . . . The date shows the grantor to be the first d'Aubigny Earl of Arundel, William's son." [1]

"William d'Aubigny, s. and h. [of Roger d'Aubigny], occurs in Norfolk in the reign of William II. He was butler (pincerna) to Henry I;(b) and founded the priory of Wymondham, Norfolk, as a cell of St. Albans before 1107. [] He m. Maud, da. of Roger Le Bigod, by his 2nd wife, Alice, da. of Robert de Tosny, lord of Belvoir, by whom he was the father of William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel ... He d. in 1139." [2] [3]

A charter of William Bigod (d. 1120) has been interpreted as implying that his mother predeceased him, and thus that Roger Bigod had two wives both called Adelaide/Alice. Keats-Rohan [Prosopon, no 9 (1998); K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p. 396 (1999)] considers the language to be inconclusive, and suggests that Roger had only one wife. She also refers to a charter of of the time of Henry I (therefore 1100 or later) of Roger and Adelisa for Rochester Priory, attested by their children William, Humphrey, Gunnor and Matilda; on the hypothesis of the Complete Peerage, this would imply that the first wife survived at least until 1100, despite the suggested birth date of around 1095 for Hugh, seen as a son of the second marriage. [4]


Footnotes:

[1] George E. Cokayne, H. A. Doubleday, Howard de Walden, eds., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 9, Moels to Nuneham (London: St. Catherine Press, 1936), 366-367.

[2] George E. Cokayne, H. A. Doubleday, Howard de Walden, eds., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 9, Moels to Nuneham (London: St. Catherine Press, 1936), 366-367.

[3] George E. Cokayne, Peter W. Hammond, ed., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 14 Addenda & Corrigenda (London: Sutton, 1998), 492, replaces "by his 2nd wife, Alice, da. of Robert de Tosny, lord of Belvoir" with probably by his 2nd wife, Alice, sister and coh. of William de Tosny, Lord of Belvoir, da. of Robert de Tosny, of the same, [FamilySearchBook], [FamilySearchCatalog].

[4] Some proposed corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 9, [URL].