William (Meschines) d’Aubigné Lord of Belvoir
- Marriage: Maud Fitz Robert 1178
- Died: Abt 1167-1168, Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
 Another name for William was William d' Albini Brito.
Information about this person:
• Background Information. 1198
"By his wife Cecilia, and not Matilda, as Dugdale falsely conjectured, William d'Aubigné the first left issue William d'Aubigné the second, and Ralph, and Eudo, and Geoffrey, all witnesses to a charter with their father and mother made by Ralph de Raines and walter and Willim his brothers, of four bovates of land in Stathorn in Leicestershire, to the priory of Bevoir, which they held of that honour. In 1168, we have a charter of William d'Aubigné the second, setting forth the knights enfeoffed of his barony, which his father had held and he after him, of whom the first named is Ralph d'Aubigné his brother, then tenant of fifteen knight's fiefs, and again this charter is proof that their mother had named Cecilia.
"May all as well present as to come know that I Wiliam d'Aubigné, by the assent of William my son and heir, and of Matilda my wife, and Cecilia, my mother, and likewise of Ralph d'Aubigné, my brother, and my vassals, have granted and given to God and the church of St. Mary of Belvoir and to . . . " Ralph d'Aubigné was deceased prior to the sixth year of Richard the First, 1198, leaving Sibilla de Valognes surviving."
~"Holy Trinity Priory, York," pp. 51-53
• 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.
~The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume I, p. 234, article by John Horace Round
William married Maud Fitz Robert, daughter of Robert Fitz Richard and Maud de St. Liz Lady Bradham.1178 (Maud Fitz Robert was born before 1134 526.)
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