DE ALBINI: William de Albini attended William the Conqueror at the Conquest. Wace mentions him as "the butler d'Aubignie." Rom. de Ron. Taylor, p. 221, where some genealogical notes will be found. But Wace is in error in calling the Hastings warrior, "boteillers," since the official surname, Pincerna, or the butler, was borne not by him but by his descendant of the same names, who received the manor of Buckenham from Henry I., by the tenure of being butler at the King's coronation, an office now discharged by his descendants, the Dukes of Norfolk. He had also another name, Strongimanus, or the "stronghanded," from his having slain a lion under very extraordinary circumstances. See English Surn. His son was created Earl of Arundel. Aubigny, the original residence of the family in Normandy, is in the Cotentin. Taylor, p. 220. Nigel de Albini occurs in Domesd. as a tenant in capite in co. Bucks. He slew Robert, Duke of Normandy's horse at Tenerchebrai, and brought Robert himself prisoner to his brother, King Henry I. His descendants assumed the name of Mowbray. Kelham.

A branch of De Toesni, baron of Belvoir, William I. The barons of Toesni and Conches, one of the greatest houses in Normandy, descended from Malahulcius, uncle of Duke Rollo. See Lord Lindsay’s Lives of the Lindsays; Banks, Dorm. and Extinct Baronage; Dugdale, &c. The Lords Daubeney, Earls of Bridgewater, were of this line.

Aubigny: appears in Domesday as holding a great barony in the counties of Buckingham, Leicester, Bedford, and Warwick. Now Albany and Daubeny. Aubigny is near Periers, in the Cotent in.