William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel

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William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel (before 1180 – 1 February 1221) was a son of William d'Aubigny, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Matilda St Hilary.

Contents 1 Lineage 2 A Royal Favourite 3 Death Returning From the Fifth Crusade 4 Marriage and Issue 5 Sources

[edit] Lineage

His paternal grandparents were William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel and Adeliza of Leuven. His maternal grandparents were James de St. Hilaire and his wife Aveline.

[edit] A Royal Favourite

William was a favourite of King John. He witnessed King John's concession of the kingdom to the Pope on 15 May 1213. On 14 June 1216 he joined Prince Louis (later Louis VIII of France) after King John abandoned Winchester. He returned to the allegiance of the King Henry III after the Royalist victory at Lincoln, on 14 July 1217.

[edit] Death Returning From the Fifth Crusade

He joined in the Fifth Crusade (1217-1221), in 1218. He died on his journey home, in Caneill, Italy, near Rome, on 1 February 1221. News of his death reached England on 30 March 1221. He was brought home and buried at Wymondham Abbey.

His title was held by his son William, until he died, childless, in 1224, when it was passed to William's youngest son Hugh.

[edit] Marriage and Issue

After 1196 and before 1200 William married Mabel of Chester (born c. 1173), daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester. They were the parents of seven children.

• Maud d'Aubigny
• Cicely d'Aubigny
• Colette d'Aubigny
• William d'Aubigny, 4th Earl of Arundel (d. 1224); buried Wymondham Abbey
• Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel (d. 7 May 1243); buried Wymondham Abbey
• Isabel d'Aubigny; married John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry
• Nicole d'Aubigny; married Roger De Somery

[edit] Sources

• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 16C-26, 126-29, 149-27.
• Remfry, P.M., Buckenham Castles, 1066 to 1649 (ISBN 1-899376-28-3)

• G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 237.

Preceded by William d'Aubigny

Earl of Arundel 1193-1221

Succeeded by William d'Aubigny