William De ALBINI, [Lord Of Belvoir^{[1, 2]}

Abt 1150 - 1236  (~ 86 years)

• Name	William De ALBINI
  Suffix	[Lord Of Belvoir
  Birth	Abt 1150	Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  AFN	LCJG-29
  Bullet	1215	Magna Charta Surety
  Reference Number	LCJG-29
  _UID	5D2B7517EE2F4B8091E24445E47008E337FB
  Death	1 May 1236	Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England   [3]
  Burial	Newstead Abbey, Newstead, Nottinghamshire, England
  Person ID	I8291	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

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

  
  

  Family
  Marriage	Abt 1191	Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
  Family ID	F4169	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• 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

  [S706] Eileen McKinnon-Suggs, Eileen McKinnon-Suggs. [S720] The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, a d d i t ions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 1-1, 157-3, 26 May 2003. (Reliability: 3). [S720] The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, a d d i t ions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 1, 26 May 2003. (Reliability: 3).