William d’Aubigné Lord of Belvoir

   Other names for William were Willelm III de Albini " Brito" and William Daubigny.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 89:29.

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁵²⁶
William Daubigny, born after 1146, Lord of Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, succeeded 1167/9, died 1 May 1236, Magna Carta, at Runnymede on 15 June 1215; married 1st, Margery, daughter of Odinel de Umfreville, d. 1182, lord of Prudhoe, co. Northumberland; married 2nd Agatha Trussebut, died 1247, widow of Hamo FitzHamo, died 1197/8, lord of Wolverton, co. Buckingham, daughter and coheir of William Trussebut, d. circa 1176, lord of Hunsingore, co. York.

~Weis's Magna Charta Sureties, 1:1

• Background Information. ¹¹⁹⁷
Albini, or Aubeney, William de, d. 1236), baronial leader, grandson of William de Albini (Brito) (d. 1155-6) was son of William de Albini 'Meschin,' whom he succeeded in 1167-8. Sheriff of Rutland and other counties under Richard, he served as an itinerant justice in John's reign. In the conflict between the crown and the baronage, he joined the moderate or middle section, who remained in attendance on the king till the eve of the Charter, but went over to the extreme party on their obtaining possession of London (24 May 1215). Accompanying them to Runnymede (15 June), he was elected one of the twenty-five barons of the Charter[(Matt. Paris], but then withdrew to his castle of Belvoir, and, though included by name in the excommunication of the barons, refused to attend the Houndlow tournament (6 July). Prevailed upon, in the autumn, to return, he was placed in charge of Rochester, but was compelled after a gallant defence (11 Oct. to 30 Nov.) to surrender it to John, who instantly committed him to prison, and was narrowly dissuaded from hanging him [Gervase, Rolls Ser. 110]. In the following year (1216) he regained his liberty and estates by a fine of 6,000 marks, and, embracing the royal cause at the accession of Henry, was entrusted with a command at the battle of Lincoln (19 May 1217), and was subsequently high in favour. In 1219 and 1225 he again acted as itinerant justice, and died in May 1236.

Sources quoted: [Dugdale's Baronage (1675), i. 113; Foss's Judges (1848), ii. 204.]

~The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume I, p. 234, article by John Horace Round

William married Margery de Umfreville, daughter of Odonell II de Umfreville Lord of Redesdale, Baron of Prudhoe and Alice de Lucy.⁵²⁶ (Margery de Umfreville was born in Castle Prudhoe, Northumberland, England, died in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England and was buried in Belvoir Priory, Leicestershire, England.)