Vik Haakull Family history
You are currently anonymous Log In
 
William "Brito" D'albini

William "Brito" D'albini[1]

Male Abt 1085 - Bef 1156  (71 years)


Personal Information    |    Notes    |    Sources    |    Event Map    |    All    |    PDF

  • Name William "Brito" D'albini 
    Nickname Brito 
    Birth Abt 1085  St Aubin D'aubigne, Ille-Et-Vilaine, St Malo, Bretagne, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 1156  Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I71259  Cecilie Family
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2009 

    Father Main D'albini,   b. Abt 1055, St Aubin D'aubigne, Ille-Et-Vilaine, St Malo, Bretagne, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Adelaide (Adeliza) Bohun,   b. Abt 1065, St Georges DE Bohon, Manche, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F31419  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Cecily Bigod,   b. Abt 1090, Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 1110 
    Children 
     1. William "Le Breton" D'albini,   b. 1113, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1168, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
    Family ID F31418  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2009 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1085 - St Aubin D'aubigne, Ille-Et-Vilaine, St Malo, Bretagne, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Bef 1156 - Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Notes 
    • Aubigny (Brito), of Belvoir.

      Saint-Aubin d'Aubigne: Ille-et-Vilaine.

      For this identification see J. H. Round in Hist. MSS. Comm., Duke of Rutland, vol. iv, p. 107.

      An offshoot of the parent stock was represented by William de Albigneio, who was a benefactor of the abbey of Viewville in Britanny c. 1200 and the father of Philip d'Aubigny, bailiff of the Channel Islands temp. Henry III. This family frequently occurs in the dioceses of Dol and Rennes. An account is given in The Complet Peerage, surname Daubeney, new edition, vol iv, pp. 93 et seq. [Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families]

      Note: The above d'Aubigny/Albini/Daubeney family is from Britanny (Bretagne) and is not directly related to the other family known by the exact same surnames, from Saint-Martin d'Aubigny in Normandy

      -----------------------------------------------------

      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, "William de Albini, Pincerna," from whom the Earls of Arundel descended. William de Albini, Brito, Lord of Belvoir, in the Chapter House of St. Albans, confirmed all the grants of his father and mother to the Church of Our Lady at Belvoir, 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 with so much spirit that he determine at once the fate of the day. of the exploit, Matthew Paris says, "In this encounter chiefly deserveth honour the most heroic William de Albini, the Briton, who, with his sword, broke through the 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 Simon de St. Liz, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, widow of Robert, son of Richard de Tunbridge, and ding about the year 1155, left two sons, viz., William, surnamed Meschines, and Ralph. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 160, Daubeney, Barons Daubeney, Earl of Bridgewater]

      Note: My sources disagree with his wife being Maud de St. Liz.

      -------------------------------------------------

      The following information was contained in a post-em by Curt Hofemann, curt_hofemann@yahoo.com:

      name: William D'ALBINI, Lord of Belvoir. [Ref: CP, Watney]

      They derived from the town of Saint-Aubin d'Aubign

  • Sources 
    1. [S1675] Wurts, John, Wurts (1945), (Philadelphia: Brookfield Publishing Company, 1945.), p. 40 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S1640] The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, by Lewi, 7-8 (Reliability: 3).