Nele d’Aubigny

   Other names for Nele were Nele de Albini, Nigel d’Aubigny and Nigel de Mowbray.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Nele, or Nigel, d'Aubigny, younger son of William and brother of William, junior, first Earl of Arundel, died Nov 1129. He held a grant of Monbrai in Normandy forfeited by Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland. He first married Maud de l'Aigle, former wife of the Robert mentioned above, and sister of Hugh, Earl of Chester. His second wife was Gundred de Gournay, sister of Hugh de Gournay and daughter of Gerard de Gournay (who died about 1104) and Edith de Wareen, daughter of William Warenne.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots . . ., 18A:22 (New line added to 8th Edition)

• Background Information. ⁸¹⁴
According to Sir Christopher Bank's in his Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Vol. I, p. 440, Amicia, the mother of Nele d'Aubigny, was named de Mowbray and was the sister of Robert de Mowbray, earl of Northumberland who was the nephew of Geoffrey, bishop of Constance. He had been in rebellion against Henry I, and thus had his earldom and lands forfeited. The king gave these lands to Negel (de Albini) whose father, Roger is said to have married Amicia de Mowbray.

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Nele d'Aubigny was the younger son of Robert and the brother of William. He was living during the early part of Henry I's reign and was a frequent member of the King's entourage. Nele was of service to the King at the battle of Tinchebrai, and was rewarded with a grant of the English lands that Robert de Stuteville had held. As faithful subjects to Henry I, Nele and his brother William fought for him at the victory over the French King at Bréule, 20 Aug 1119.

In some sources, such as Christopher Bank's Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Vol. I, p. 440, Nele's son Roger became a Mowbray via his grandmother Amicia. Cokayne's Complete Peerage says that he received a grant of Montbrai and other forfeited lands in Normandy of Robert de Montbrai, Earl of Northumberland whose wife he had married.

He founded the priory of Hurst in Axholme, Lincolnshire as a cell of Nostell and gave Aldburgh near Masham, Yorkshire, to Pontigny.

Nele's first wife, according to Cokayne's Complete Peerage, was Maud, sometime wife of Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Horthumberland, sister of Gibert and daughter of Richer de l'aigle, by Judith, sister of Gilbert and daughter of Richer de l'Aigle by Judith, sister of Hugh, Earl of Chester. His second wife, whom he married in June 1118, at the King's instance, was Gundred, sister of Hugh and daughter of Gerard de Gournay and his wife Edith who was the daughter of William de Warenne, the first earl of Surrey. Nele died 21 or 26 Nov 1129. Gundred is said to have been living in Oct 1159. [Dugdale, Mon., v. p.353, col.2]

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Mowbray), Vol.IX, p. 367-369

Nele married Gundred de Gournay, daughter of Gerard de Gournay and Edith de Warenne, in Jun 1118 ^141,160 (Gundred de Gournay was born about 1104.)