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William De ALBINI, [Lord Of Belvoir

William De ALBINI, [Lord Of Belvoir[1, 2]

Male Abt 1150 - 1236  (~ 86 years)

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  • Name William De ALBINI 
    Suffix [Lord Of Belvoir 
    Born Abt 1150  Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    AFN LCJG-29 
    Bullet 1215  Magna Charta Surety Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Reference Number LCJG-29 
    _UID 5D2B7517EE2F4B8091E24445E47008E337FB 
    Died 1 May 1236  Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Buried Newstead Abbey, Newstead, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I8291  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 5 Feb 2012 

    Father William "Le Breton" De ALBINI, Lord Of Belvoir,   b. 1113, Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1168, Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Mother Maud Fitzrobert De CAEN, [Countess Of Chester,   b. Abt 1117, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Jul 1189, Chester, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Married Abt 1140  Northampton, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F8800  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Married Abt 1191  Belvoir, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F4169  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • William de Albini, feudal Lord of Belvoir, in the 6th of Richard I [1195], was with that monarch in the army in Normandy, and the next year was sheriff of the counties of Warwick and Leicester, as he was subsequently of Rutlandshire. In the 2nd of King John [1201], he had special license to make a park at Stoke, in Northampton, and liberty to hunt the fox and hare (it lying within the royal forest of Rockingham). Afterwards, however, he took up arms with the other barons and, leaving Belvoir well fortified, he assumed the governorship of Rochester Castle, which he held out for three months against the Royalists, and ultimately only surrendered when reduced to the last state of famine. Upon the surrender of Rochester, William Albini was sent prisoner to Corfe Castle, and there detained until his freedom became one of the conditions upon which Belvoir capitulated, and until he paid a ransom of 6,000 marks. In the reign of Henry III, we find him upon the other side and a principal commander at the battle of Lincoln, anno 1217, where his former associates sustained so signal a defeat. This stout baron, who had been one of the celebrated twenty-five appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta, m. 1st, Margery, dau. of Odonel de Umfraville, by whom he had had issue, William, Sir Odinel, Robert, and Nicholas, rector of Bottesford. He m. 2ndly, Agatha, dau. and co-heir of William Trusbut, and dying in 1236, was s. by his eldest son, William de Albini. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 160, Daubeney, Barons Daubeney, Earl of Bridgewater]

  • Sources 
    1. [S706] Eileen McKinnon-Suggs, Eileen McKinnon-Suggs.

    2. [S720] The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, a d d i t ions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 26 May 2003., 1-1, 157-3 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S720] The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, a d d i t ions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 26 May 2003., 1 (Reliability: 3).