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Nigel d'Aubigny
Norman lord and baron (died 1129)
Norman lord and baron (died 1129)
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Nigel d'Aubigny |
| spouse | Matilda de L'Aigle |
| Gundred de Gournay | |
| spouse-type | Spouse |
| issue | Roger de Mowbray |
| noble family | House of Mowbray |
| house-type | Nobility |
| father | Roger d'Aubigny |
| mother | Amice or Avice Mowbray |
| death_date | 21 November 1129 |
| death_place | unknown |
Henry I's "new man"
Gundred de Gournay | spouse-type = Spouse | house-type = Nobility Nigel d'Aubigny (Neel d'Aubigny or Nigel de Albini, died 1129), was a Norman Lord and English baron who was the son of Roger d'Aubigny and Amice or Avice de Mowbray. His paternal grandfather, William was lord of Aubigny. Nigel and his brother were supporters of Henry I of England. His brother William d'Aubigny Pincerna was the king's Butler and father of the 1st Earl of Arundel. Nigel was the founder of the noble House of Mowbray.
Life
He is described as "one of the most favoured of Henry's 'new men'". While he entered the king's service as a household knight and brother of the king's butler, William d'Aubigny, in the years following the Battle of Tinchebrai in 1106 Nigel was rewarded by Henry with marriage to an heiress who brought him lordship in Normandy and with the lands of several men, primarily that of Robert de Stuteville. The Mowbray honour became one of the wealthiest estates in Norman England. From 1107 to about 1118, Nigel served as a royal official in Yorkshire and Northumberland. In the last decade of his life he was frequently traveling with Henry I, most likely as one of the king's trusted military and administrative advisors. He died in Normandy, possibly at the abbey of Bec.
Family
Nigel's first marriage, after 1107, was to Matilda de L'Aigle, whose prior marriage to the disgraced and imprisoned Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria, had been annulled based on consanguinity.
Notes
References
- Keats-Rohan, K. S. B.. (2002). "Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: II. Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum". Boydell Press.
- Cokayne, G. E.. (1936). "The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times (Moels to Nuneham)". The St Catherine Press.
- [[Frank Barlow (historian). Frank Barlow]], ''William Rufus'' (1983) p.145.
- King, E. (1974). King Stephen and the Anglo-Norman Aristocracy. ''History'', 59(195): 180-194.
- Greenway, pp. xvii-xviii.
- Cokayne, G. E.. (1936). "The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times (Moels to Nuneham)". The St Catherine Press.
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