Born after in Arundel, Sussex, England
Ancestors 
Brother of
Alice (Aubigny) d'Eu, Matilda (Aubigny) Aubigny Countess of Strathearn [half], Geoffrey (Aubigny) d'Aubigny, Oliva (Aubigny) de la Haye, Agatha (Aubigny) d'Aubigny, Reynor Aubigny and Henry Aubigny
Husband of
Maud (St Hilary) d'Aubeney
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
before age 55
in Wayland, Norfolk, England
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Biography, William, 2nd Earl of Arundel
Name and Parentage
William d'Aubeney [1]
Son and heir of William d'Aubeney and Alice (etc) of Louvain, (widow of Henry I, King of England)[1]
Titles
- 2nd Earl of Arundel [1]
- Chief Butler of England[1]
- Privy Councillor[1]
- Constable of Windsor Castle, 1191-1193[1]
He was, however, styled Earl of Arundel before he received possession of the Castle and Honour, namely, on 18 September 1189, and on 26 November of the same year he witnessed King Richard's Charter as "Will. Earl of Arundel."
He received also at the same time, the third penny of the pleas of Sussex in the precise words of the grant made to his father. In 1191 he was made Custos of Windsor Castle, and in 1194 one of the Receivers of the money raised for the King's ransom.
1176 Marriage
He married before Michaelmas 1176 Maud de Saint Hilary, widow of Roger de Clare (otherwise Roger Fitz Richard), 2nd Earl of Hertford. [1]
Maud was the daughter and heir of James de St.. Hilaire du Harcouet and Aveline, who had 4 sons and 3 daughters. The four sons included William, eldest, and the daughters included Avice and Maud.
1176 Public office
In 1176/7 he was confirmed as Earl of Sussex, but the castle and Honour of Arundel were, in accordance with the policy of King Henry II, retained by the Crown. [1]
William d'Aubeney, b: 1138, was named "Earl of Sussex" in 1176/77, and in 1790, he became the 2nd Earl of Arundel on the death of his father, William d'Aubeney Sr. As it was considered the superior title, "Earl of Sussex" fell into disuse.[2]
1190 Restoration of Castle and Honour
He was granted restoration of the Castle and Honour of Arundel by King Richarfd I, 27 June 1190 when he became Earl of Arundel. [1]
1193 Death
He died 24 Dec 1193, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk.[1][3]
Issue
William and his wife Maud had three sons and one daughter:[1]
An additional daughter Avice is sometimes shown as a daughter of William and Maud, but not by Douglas Richardson.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry. Volume II, p. 252.
- ↑ William d'Aubigny, 2nd Earl of Arundel on Wikipedia
- ↑ Complete Peerage I:235-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)
See also:
- Phillips, Weber, Kirk and Staggs Families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, rootsweb.com
- The Peerage for William d'Aubigny, 2nd Earl of Arundel using these sources:
- 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 233.
- Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 48.
- Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 236, but then Cokayne goes on to gove his date of death of 24 December 1193!
- Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004), page 748.
- Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol II, p 176
Acknowledgements
- Ted Williams
- Travis Wagner
- Stephen Wilkinson
- Roger Travis
- Johanna Amnelin
- Chet Spencer
- Allan Stuart
- Linda Plummer
- Darrell Parker
- Steve Woods
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I also notice that the Regesta regum anglo-normannorum, 1066-1154, vol. 2 refers to her in the index as Alice of Louvain https://archive.org/details/regestaregumangl02grea/page/415/mode/1up
Even if we were to use a "proper family name", deciding what that is can be difficult. All primary sources in this period are in Latin, and there is no definite way of spelling most names. I've come across documents where the same person might be referred to several times in the same document but their name is spelled differently
edited by John Atkinson
This inconsistency cascades into the children of this profile.
In general, this strikes me as NOT a case where we ought to "use their conventions not ours" because any historical records we may be deferring to as definitive source docs for name spelling, are misspelling a French name phonetically in English, ie omitting the silent G. This is not the same thing as converting Guillaume to William, for example; it would be like misspelling Guillaume as Geeyohm.
In this regard, a similar example is the (interrelated) Tosny/Tonei family, descended from Hugues de Calvacamp, which experienced similar name-misspelling in England (but not in France).
By promoting the quasi-anglo variants of these ancient Franco-Norman names, I feel we are making the mistake of being anglocentric, and perhaps unintentionally deferring to primary source records from England in an era when they famously lacked authoritative spelling.
In contrast, this is NOT the same dynamic as say the French placename St-Liz becoming the British surname Senlis, and sticking as such over time. Perhaps would be more like western sources misspelling say Osama bin Laden as Binladen, merely because that's how western surnames typically look. And we shouldn't do that here on Wikitree, right?
If the profile managers agree, can they resolve the inconsistency of the surnames in this chunk of this family, and standardize on dAubigny? If not, for whatever reason (i.e. if this is intentional) can they explain why in the profile(s)?
Cheers