William d’Aubigny Earl of Arundel
- Born: Abt 1100, England 277
- Marriage: Adeliza de Louvaine in 1138 in Engln
- Died: 12 Oct 1176, Waverly Abbey, Wymondham, Norfolk, England about age 76 141,160
- Buried: 1176, Wymondham Priory, Norfolk, England 141
 General Notes:
~Weis' Ancestral Roots. . ., 139:26, William d'Aubigny, father of Alix married to Jean Comté d'Eu. 149:24, Husband of Adeliza de Louvaine. 160
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 726
William d'Aubigny, surnamed the Strong Hand, Lord of the manor of Buckenham, Norfolk, who was born early in the reign of Henry I, married the widow of King Henry I, Adeliza de Louvain, in her third year of widowhood. With this marriage came the Castle and Honor of Arundel and the title of Earl of Arundel. Adeliza was the eldest daughter of Godefroy la Barbe, Duke of Lothier, Lorraine Inferieure, Count of Brabant and Lovain, and his first wife, daughter of Albert III, Count of Namur.
William was also recognized as the Earl of Lincoln. He gave shelter to the Empress Maud at Arundel Castle, yet he was after adhered to Stephen. He was influential in arranging the treaty of 1143 whereby the Crown continued with Stephen for life, though the inheritance of Henry II.
William was to be held in great esteem by Henry II who made him one of the embassy to Rome in 1163-/64 and to Saxony in 1168. William was in command of the Royal army in Aug 1173, in Normandy, against the King's rebellious sons, and on 29 Sep following, assisted at the defeat near Bury St. Edmunds of the Earl of Leicester who, with his Flemings, had invaded Suffolk.
Willaim survived his wife for twenty-five years after her death. He died 12 Oct 1176 at Waverley Abbey, Surrey, and was buried with his father at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk.
~Fenwick Allied Ancestry, pg. 101-102
• Children. 722
The Chidren of William and Adeliza were:
William, d. 24 Dec 1193, m. Maud de St. Hilary
Alice, d. 22 Sep 1188, m. John, Count of d'Eu, who d. Jun 1170
~Boyer's Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, pg. 7
• Background Information. 141
William d'Aubigny, son and heir of his father of the same name who was a Norman from cotentin, and son of Maud, daughter of Roger le Bigod, was Earl of Sussex. His father had been Master Butler and he succeeded him in this office in 1139. He was born early in the reign of Henry I, and became Lord of the manor of Buckenham, Norfolk on the death of his father about 1139. He married, sometime before Christmas 1141, Adeliz, eldest daughter of Godefroi á la Barbe, duc de Lorraine Inférieure et comté de Brabant et Louvaine. Adeliz was the widow Henry I, King of England. With this marriage to the "Queen Dowager," he now held the Castle and Honor of Arundel, which had been settled on her in dower. This made William the Earl of Arundel.
About the same time his father died, he gave shelter to Empress Maud at Arundel Castle, but after that adhered to Stephen. He was influential in arranging the treaty of 1153 which enabled King Stephen to serve for life, and secured that Henry II would inherited the throne. Henry II confirmed William as the Earl of Arundel, the Castle of Arundel, and the honor of Arundel with a grant about 1155. In the grant he referred to as "William, Earl of Arundel," a name which he is most often referred to in documents from that time on.
King Henry II held William d'Aubigny in great esteem, and William was one of the ambassadors who went to Rome in 1163/4, and later to Saxony in 1168 at the event of the Princess' marriage to the Duke of Saxony. He was in command of the royal army in Aug 1173, in Normandy, against the King's rebellious sons, and on 29 Sep 1174, he assisted at the defeat of the Earl of Leicester, who, along with his Flemings, had invaded Suffolk.
William and Adeliz were married in 1138. Adeliz retired in 1150 to a nunnery at Afflighem, in South Brabant, where she died and was buried 23 Apr 1151, about age 48. William survived her for twenty-five more years and died 12 Oct 1176 at Waverley Abbey, Surrey and was buried with his father at Wymonham Priory, Norfolk.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Arundel), Vol. I, pp. 233-235, & (Sussex), Vol. XIIA, p. 515
William married Adeliza de Louvaine, daughter of Godefroi Duc de Brabant and Ida de Chiny, in 1138 in Engln. (Adeliza de Louvaine was born about 1103 in England, died on 23 Apr 1151 in Afflighem, South Brabant, Lorraine, France 722,726 and was buried in 1151 in Nunnery at Afflighem, South Brabant, Lorraine, France 726.)
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