1. William Malbanc.

2. Robert, son of Hugo. 3. Hugo, son of Norman. 4. Richard de Vernun.

5. Richard de Rullos.

6. Ranulph Venator.

7. Hugo de Mara.

8. Ranulph, son of Ermiwin.

9. Robert de Fremouz.

10. Walkelinus, nephew of Walter de Vernon. 11. Seward.

12. Gislebert de Venables.

13. Gaufridus de Sartes.

14. Richard de Mesnilwarin.

15. Walter de Vernun.

The charter concludes-"Et ut hæc omnia essent rata et stabilia inperpetuum, ego Comes Hugo et mei Barones confirmavimus, (&c ) ita quod singuli nostrum propriâ manu, in testimonium posteris signum in modum Crucis facerent:"-and is signed by the EARL himself,

Richard-his son.

Hervey, Bishop of Bangor.

Ranulph de Meschines, his nephew, who eventually inherited the earldom.

Roger Bigod.

Alan de Perci.

William Constabular.

Ranulph Dapifer.

William Malbanc.

Robert Fitz-Hugh.
Hugh Fitz-Norman.
Hamo de Masci.

Bigod de Loges.

Those barons, be it remembered, were each of them men of great individual power, and large territorial possessions. Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, was succeeded by his only son (then but seven years of age),

RICHARD DE ABRINCIS, as second earl. This nobleman, after he had attained maturity, attached himself faithfully to King Henry I., and never subsequently swerved in his allegiance. His lord. ship espoused Maud, daughter of Stephen, Earl of Blois, by Adela, daughter of William the Conqueror, but had no issue-himself and his countess being soon afterwards amongst the victims of the memorable shipwreck, (Dec., 1119,) wherein the king's two sons, WILLIAM and RICHARD, with their tutor Ottiwell, the earl's bastard brother, Geffery Riddell, his sister Geva's husband, and many others of the nobility perished. This melancholy event is thus recorded by Ordericus.

"The master of the ship was Thomas, son of Stephen, who came to King Henry the First, then in Normandy, and ready to take shipping for England, and offered him a mark of gold, desiring that as Stephen, his father, had transported the conqueror when he fought against King Harold, and was his constant mariner in all his passages between England and Normandy, so that he himself likewise might now have the transportation of King Henry and all his attendants, as it were, in fee; for he had a very good vessel, called Candida Navis,' or the White Ship,' well furnished for that purpose. The king thanked him: but withal told him, he

had already made choice of another ship, which he would not change; yet, he would commend him to his two sons, William and Richard, with many others of his nobility; whereat the mariners much rejoiced, and desired the prince to bestow some wine upon them to drink. He gave them 'tres modios vini,' three hogsheads of wine, wherewith they made themselves sufficiently drunk. There were almost three hundred in this unfortunate ship, besides the young gallants who were to be transported; as well as fifty skilful oars or galleymen, who, had they not been intoxicated, would have been fully able to manage her; but having neither the power to govern themselves nor the vessel, they suffered her to split upon a rock, and so all were drowned, except one Berolde, a butcher of Roan, who was taken up the next morning by some fishermen, after a cold frosty night's shipwreck; and with much ado recovered, and lived twenty years after."

Upon the demise thus of RICHARD DE ABRINCIS, second Earl of Chester, the male line of the family becoming extinct, the earldom passed to the deceased nobleman's first cousin, RANULPH DE MESCHINIS, Son of Ralph de Meschines, by Maud de Abrincis, sister of Earl Hugh Lupus-(see Meschines, Earls of Chester).

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AIREMINE-BARONESS BELASYSE OF OSGODBY.

Created by Letters Patent, 25th of March, 1674.

HENRY BELASYSE, who 8. to the title of Belasyse of Warlaby, upon the decease of his grandfather, his father, Sir Henry, dying previously-(see Belasyse of Warlaby). LADY BELASYSE m. secondly, - Fortrey, Esq., of Chequers, but had no issue. Her ladyship was created a peeress for life, by King Charles II. by letters patent dated 25th of March, 1674, as BARONESS BELASYSE OF OSGODBY. She d. 6th March, 1712-13, when the dignity EXPIRED.

ALAN, surnamed FERGAUNT, EARL OF RICHMOND.

(See De Dreaux, Earls of Richmond.) ALBINI-EARLS OF ARUNDEL. By feudal tenure of ARUNDEL CASTLE, in the County of Sussex, A. D. 1139. Lineage.

WILLIAM DE ALBINI, surnamed Pincerna, son of Roger de Albini, and elder brother of Nigel de Albini, whose posterity assumed, and attained such eminence under the name of MoWBRAY, accompanied the conqueror into England, and acquired

extensive territorial possessions by royal grants in the county of Norfolk and other shires. Of which grants was the lordship of Bokenham, to be holden by the service of being BUTLER to the Kings of England on the day of their coronation, and in consequence we find this William styled in divers charters, "Pincerna Henrici Regis Anglorum." Amongst the numerous persons despoiled of their lands by those grants, was one EDWYNE, a Dane, who appealing to the Conqueror, told him, that neither before nor after the conquest, had himself or the other ejected Danes, acted or conspired against him; which complaint induced the king to institute an immediate inquiry throughout the realm, and to order that all those who had lived peaceably, should have restitution of their lands, to enjoy as freely as they had done before, and thenceforward to be called Drenges. Edwyne could however recover only a portion of his property, but he was soon afterwards sent into Normandy for the king's illegitimate daughter, whom the monarch bestowed upon his (Edwyne's) son Asceur; and thus the protection of the Dane was secured during the remainder of his life.

William de Albini founded the Abbey of Wymundham in Norfolk, and gave to the monks of Rochester, the tithes of his manor of Elham; as also one carucate of land in Achestede, with a wood called Acholte. He likewise bestowed upon the Abbey of St. Stephen at Caen, in Normandie, all his lands lying in Stavell, which grant he made in the presence of King Henry and his barons. He m. Maude, daughter of Roger Bigot, with whom he obtained ten knights' fees in Norfolk-and had issue, William.

Nigel. Oliver.

Oliva, m. to Raphe de Haya, a feudal baron of great power.

At the obsequies of Maude, William de Albini gave to the monks of Wymundham, the manor of Hapesburg, in pure alms, and made livery thereof to the said monks by a cross of silver, in which, (says Dugdale,) was placed certain venerable reliques, viz." part of the wood of the Cross whereon our Lord was crucified; part of the manger wherein he was laid at his birth; and part of the sepulchre of the blessed Virgin; as also a gold ring, and a silver chalice, for retaining the holy eucharist, admirably wrought in form of a sphere: unto which pious donation his three sons were witnesses, with several other persons." The exact time of the decease of this great feudal baron is not ascertained, but it is known that he was buried before the high altar in the Abbey of Wymundham, and that the monks were in the constant habit of praying for his soul, by the name of "William de Albini the king's butler." He was s. by his eldest

son,

WILLIAM DE ALBINI, surnamed "William with the strong hand," from the following circumstance, as related by Dugdale

"It happened that the Queen of France, being then a widow, and a very beautiful woman, became much in love with a knight of that country, who was a comely person, and in the flower of his youth:

and because she thought that no man excelled him in valour, she caused a tournament to be proclaimed throughout her dominions, promising to reward those who should exercise themselves therein, according to their respective demerits; and concluding that if the person whom she so well affected, should act his part better than others in those military exercises, she might marry him without any dishonour to herself. Hereupon divers gallant men, from forrain parts hasting to Paris, amongst others came this our William de Albini, bravely accoutred; and in the tournament excelled all others, overcoming many, and wounding one mortally with his lance, which being observed by the queen shee became exceedingly enamoured of him, and forthwith invited him to a costly banquet, and afterwards bestowing certain jewels upon him, offered him marriage; but having plighted his troth to the Queen of England, then a widow, he refused her, whereat she grew so much discontented, that she consulted with her maids how she might take away his life; and in pursuance of that designe, inticed him into a garden, where there was a secret cave, and in it a fierce lion, unto which she descended by divers steps, under colour of shewing him the beast; and when she told him of his fierceness, he answered, that it was a womanish and not a manly quality to be afraid thereof. But having him there, by the advantage of a folding door, thrust him in to the lion; being therefore in this danger, he rolled his mantle about his arm, and putting his hand into the mouth of the beast, pulled out his tongue by the root; which done, he followed the queen to her palace, and gave it to one of her maids to present her. Returning thereupon to England, with the fame of this glorious exploit ; he was forthwith advanced to the EARLEDOME OF ARUNDEL, and for his arms the LION given him." He subsequently obtained the hand of the Queen Adeliza, relict of King Henry I., and daughter of GODFREY, DUKE OF LORRAINE, which Adeliza, had the CASTLE OF ARUNDEL in dowry from the deceased monarch, and thus her new lord became its feudal earl. His lordship was one of those who solicited the Empress Maude to come into England, and received her and her brother ROBERT, EARL OF GLOUCESTER, at the Port of Arundel, in August 1139, and in three years afterwards (1142), in the report made of King Stephen's taking William de Mandevil at St. Albans, it is stated-"that before he could be laid hold on, he underwent a sharp skirmish with the king's party, wherein the Earl of Arundell, though a stout and expert souldier, was unhorsed in the midst of the water by Walkeline de Oxeai, and almost drowned." In 1150, his lordship wrote himself EARL OF CHICHESTER, but we find him styled again EARL OF ARUNDEL, upon a very memorable occasion-namely, the reconciliation of Henry Duke of Normandy, (afterwards Henry II.) and King Stephen at the siege of Wallingford Castle in 1152. "It was scarce possible," says Rapin, "for the armies to part without fighting. Accordingly the two leaders were preparing for battle with equal ardour, when by the prudent advice of the EARL OF ARUNDEL, who was on the

king's side, they were prevented from coming to blows." A truce and peace followed this interference of the earl's, which led to the subsequent accession of Henry after Stephen's decease, in whose favour the earl stood so high, that he not only obtained for himself and his heirs, the castle and honour of Arundel, but a confirmation of the Earldom of SUSSEX, of which county he was really EARL, by a grant of the Tertium Denarium of the pleas of that shire. In 1164, we find the Earl of Arundel deputed with Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London, to remonstrate with Lewis, King of France, upon affording an asylum to Thomas à Becket within his dominions, and on the failure of that mission, dispatched with the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Winchester, London, Chichester, and Exeter-Wido Rufus, Richard de Invecestre, John de Oxford (Priests)-Hugh de Gundevile, Bernard de St. Valery, and Henry Fitzgerald, to lay the whole affair of Becket at the foot of the pontifical throne. Upon this occasion the Earl of Arundel is said thus to have addressed the Pope" Sir, we being illiterate, are ignorant what the bishops have expressed; but we are not to be instructed to what purpose we are sent. We come not to do any thing contumeliously in the presence of so great a person, to whose authority the whole world doth stoop; but we are to declare, in the presence of this whole court, how great a devotion our king hath borne, and doth bear to your holyness; and that if he could have found out any persons more great and noble to have signified the same, than these now sent, he would have employed them on this errand." Upon levying the aid for the marriage of the king's daughter-12th of Henry II., the knights' fees of the honour of Arundel were certified to be ninety-seven, and those in Norfolk belonging to the earl, forty-two. In 1173, we find the Earl of Arundel commanding in conjunction with William Earl of Mandeville, the king's army in Normandy, and compelling the French monarch to abandon Verneuil after a long siege, and in the next year, with Richard de Lucy, Justice of England, defeating Robert Earl of Leicester, then in rebellion at St. Edmundsbury. This potent nobleman, after founding and endowing several religious houses, departed this life at Waverley, in Surrey, on the 3d of October 1176, and was buried in the Abbey of Wymundham. His lordship left four sons and three daughters, viz.

1. William.

2. Godfrey.

3.

4.

1. Alice, m. to John Earl of Ewe.

2. Oliva.

3. Agatha.

He was s. by his eldest son,

WILLIAM DE ALBINI, second earl, who had a grant from the crown, 23rd Henry II., of the earldom of Sussex, and in the Ist of Richard I., had a confirmation from that prince, of the castle and honour of Arundel, as also of the Tertium Denarium of the county of Sussex. In five years afterwards we find this nobleman paying eighty-four pounds, ten shil

| lings, for his scutage for King Richard's redemption, and the next year one hundred pounds, for his relief for his lands in Norfolk. His lordship was at Rumimede at the signing of the great charters, but upon the king's side; he subsequently, however, swore to obey the determination of the twenty-five barons, chosen to enforce the execution of those charters. In 1218, the earl embarked in the Crusade, and was at the celebrated siege of Damieta, but died in returning, anno 1222. His lordship m. Maude, daughter and heiress of James de Sancto Sidonio, and widow of Roger, Earl of Clare, by whom he left issue. WILLIAM, HUGH,

successors to the earldom.

Isabel, m. to JOHN FITZALAN, Baron of Clun
and Oswestry.

Mabel, m. to Robert de Tateshall.
Nicolaa, m. to Roger de Somery.
Cecilia, m. to Roger de Montalt.
Colet, m. to

The earl was s. by his elder son,

WILLIAM DE ALBINI, third earl, whom. Mabel, second of the four sisters and co-heiresses of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, with whom he obtained landed property to the amount of £500. per annum. Dying, however, issueless in the eighteenth year of Henry III., his honours devolved upon his only brother (then in minority),

HUGH DE ALBINI, fourth earl. This nobleman gave two thousand and five hundred marks fine to the king for the possession of all the lands and castles which descended to him from his brother, and those which he inherited from his uncle, Ranulph, EARL OF CHESTER. At the nuptials of King Henry III. we find the Earl of Warren serving the king with the royal cup in the place of this earl, by reason he was then but a youth, and not knighted. His lordship m. Isabel, daughter of William, Earl of Warren and Surrey, but dying in 1243, 8. p., this branch of the great house of Albini expired, while its large possessions devolved upon the earl's sisters as coheiresses-thus,

Mabell Tateshall, had the castle and manor of Buckenham.

Isabel Fitzallan, had the castle and manor of Arundel, &c., which conveyed the earldom to her husband.

Nichola de Somery, had the manor of Barwe, in the county of Leicester.

Cecilie de Montalt, had the castle of Rising, in the county of Norfolk.

The earl had another sister, Colet, to whom her uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, gave thirty pounds towards her marriage portion, which gift was confirmed by King Henry III.

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WILLIAM ALLINGTON, Esq., high sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntington, in the reign of Edward IV., said to derive from Sir Hildebrand de Alington, under-marshal to William the Conqueror, at Hastings, m. Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of John de Argentine, fifth Baron Argentine, and acquired by her the manor of Wy. mondeley, in the county of Hertford, held in grand serjeanty, by service of presenting the first cup at the coronation of the kings of England; which service was claimed and allowed at the coronation of King James II., and has ever since been performed by the lords of that manor. From this William Allington and Elizabeth his wife lineally descended

SIR GILES ALLINGTON, who m. Mary, only daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Gardiner, Knt., and had several children, of whom three of the younger sons, George, John, and Richard, were the founders of families. Sir Giles was 8. by his eldest son,

GILES ALLINGTON, Esq., of Horseheath, in the county of Cambridge; high sheriff of that shire in the 22d of Henry VIII., and of Huntingdon in the 37th of the same monarch. Mr. Allington appears to have attended King Henry VIII. as master of the ordnance at the siege of Bulloigne, by the inscription of a clock which he brought from that siege, and affixed over the offices at Horseheath Hall, in which was the alarum-bell of the garrison of Bulloigne. He died in 1586, and from him lineally descended

WILLIAM ALLINGTON, Esq., of Horseheath Hall, who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland, as BARON ALLINGTON, of Killard, on the 28th July, 1642. His lordship m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Lionel Tallemache, Bart., of Helmingham, in the county of Norfolk, by whom he had, with five sons, three daughters; viz.

Elizabeth m. to Charles Lord Seymour, of
Troubridge.

Catherine m. to Sir John Jacob, Bart., of
Gamlinghay, in the county of Cambridge.
Diana d. unmarried.

Lord Allington was a. by his second, but eldest surviving son,

WILLIAM ALLINGTON, second baron, who was created a peer of England on the 5th of December, 1682, by the title of BARON ALLINGTON, of Wymondley, in the county of Herts. His lordship m., first, Catherine, second daughter of Henry Lord Stanhope, son of Philip, second earl of Chesterfield, by whom

he had no issue. He m., secondly, Joanna, daughter of Baptist, Lord Campden, and had a daughter, Joanna, who m. Scroope, Lord Howe. Lord Allington, m., thirdly, Diana, daughter of William Russell, first duke of Bedford, by whom he had one surviving son, Giles, and two daughters; viz.

Diana m. to Sir George Warburton, Bart., of Arley, in the county of Chester, and d. in 1705. Catherine m. to Sir Nathaniel Napier, Bart., of Middlemersh Hall, in the county of Dorset. His lordship d. in 1634, and was succeeded by

his son,

GILES ALLINGTON, third baron of the Irish creation, and second of the English. This nobleman dying in his tenth year, anno 1691, the English peerage expired, while that of Ireland reverted to his uncle,

The HON. HILDEBrand AllingTON, son of the first lord, as fourth baron; but his lordship did not inherit the fortune. William, the second lord, having devised his estates, the most extensive in the county of Cambridge, to his widow during the minority of his children, with a power of granting leases to raise portions for his daughters, that lady, in consequence of an error in the will, found herself possessed of the power of leasing ad infinitum, and she accordingly made a lease of the whole to Henry Bromley, Esq., afterwards Lord Montford, ancestor of the present lord, for 999 years; to whom, subsequently, Hildebrand, Lord Allington, also disposed of the small interest then remaining to him in the estates. His lordship dying s. p. in 1722, the Irish barony of ALLINGTON OF KILLARD, likewise became EXTINCT.

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AMORIE-BARONS D'AMORIE.
By Writ of Summons, dated 20th Nov., 1317.
2 Edward II.

Lineage.

GILBERT DE AUMARI, in the 15th Henry II., gave fifteen marks for livery of his lands at Winford, in the county of Somerset; after this Gilbert came another,

GILBERT D'AMORIE, who in the 22nd Ed. I. was in the expedition made into Gascony. This Gilbert had three sons, viz:

1. ROGER (Sir), of whom presently.

2. NICHOLAS, who in the 6th Ed. II. obtained a charter of Free Warren, in all his demesne lands within the manors of Bokenhall, and Blechesdon, in the county of Oxford, and Thornebergh in the county of Bucks. He was 8. by his son,

SIR RICHARD D'AMORIE, who was summoned to Parliament as a BARON, from 20th Edw. II. to 4th Edw. III. This nobleman was in the wars of Scotland in 1320, and in three years afterwards, being at the time steward of the king's household, had command to besiege the Castle of Walingford, then in possession of the rebellious lords. His lordship died in 1330, leaving issue