ALBEMARLE. 55 ov Champagne,!*) by Adeliza, Dow. Countess ok Bonthtei* above-named. His father (having conspired against Hun. L in 1095) was confined in prison, where he (/. about 1 10i>, having, a|>ji;irently, never been recognised »■< vrnrisj End of AlUmadt, while Stephen (either v. p. or, certainly, after his father V death) become in possession of the territory of Holderness, the Lordship of Bythan-, m. Lincoln. Arc. (the whole being subsc^ucntl >l known as the " Eee or Honor of All>oniarle which liatl been granted to bia father. By deed 12 June 10!l>> he grants lands to the Abbey of jleauvais, as "Comite d'Ai mai.k," and by a later deed (as "Ai.ii.k Marlen.sis Comes,") lie ill 1115 confirms thereto the gifts of "his mother Adeliza." He was in the Crusades and fought with great bravery at Antiooh, but twice conspired against Henry 1, once on behalf of Robert [elder br. to the King), and once in (1126-27,) 27 Hen. [. on behalf of William, Kail of Plunders, s. of the said Duke Robert. He m. Unwise, da. of Ralph dc MoRflMKX. He d. about 1127. III. Ili'7. •»'. Wu.i.iA.M (ni'! BtiOiS) colled "£# Eari <>f Ai.iiemamle, Lord of Holderness, &c, s. and h. He greatly distin- guished himself ill the. battle of the Standard, at North Allerton. in 1188, anil is said to have received in that year, as a reward, the county of York from King Stephen, whereby (according to some accounts) lie became Eaki. of YtiUK.f') [See "VoitK, Sari, er, 1138.] He was with King Stephen at his defeat at the battle of Lincoln. He founded the Abbey of Meaux, ll.'iO. He in. Cicely, da. of William Frrz Duncan (nephew of Malcolm, King of Scotland), by Abe*, da. of Robert de Kh.mei.ev. Lord of Skipton, in Craven ; by her, who was Lady of Harewood," lie obtained large posses- sions. He d. s.p.m. 1 1 7!', and was Inir. in the Abbey of Thornton, which he had founded. IV. 1179. 4 A . HAWisJ^ da. and h. (or, mcrre probably, 1st da, and co- heir (*) ), must be considered (possibly by favour of the Crown) as suo jure COUNTESS OF ALBEMARLE, inasmuch as her husband, William (OS Mandevii.le), Emu. >iv Esses axu Ai.hkmam.k, assumed te latter Earldom in her right. He o s.p., Nov. llsy. See " Essex," Earls of, under the :Jrd Earl. V. lls'J? 1 <n:'i u . William (de FortTZ,^ 1 ) or de Fortiuus), Karl OF ALUEMAULE, second husband of the said Hawyse, who assumed the title in her right, and also styled himself " Lord of Holderness." He was one of the Commanders of the Elect in which Richard 1 went to Jerusalem. He d. 1105. (') " Amongst the principal personages in the host at Hastings (1006) Master Wace mentions OQ ki crt .Sire d' Aubermarc." This was Odo (Count of Champagne) who possessed the lands of Aumale in right of his wife Adeliza. for " the old Norman Chroniclers state clearly enough that Odo de Champagne was the husband of the Conqueror's sister, tho' not one of them had the kindness to inform us that the lady had been twice married before." — See Blanche's "The Conqueror, ice," vol. i, p. 117 and 121. ( b ) "John, Trior of Hexham, the coutinuator of the Monk of Durham, says that King Stephen, elated at his success after the battle of the Standard, 113S, made William de Albemarle, 1 Comitem in Eboraei sciria:' be appears to have been one of the ' Pscudn Canities ' of King Stephen's making, whom Hen. II would not recognize. — Bide Seden, cap. v, pt. 2." See " Courthope." ( c ) Ainicia, who is said (see " Vincent on Brooke," p. 4) to have been the 2nd and yst. da. and coheir, was mother of Constance, mother to Kanulph, father of John, lather of John de Eston, or Aston, who claimed the Honour of Alhemaiile in 6 Ed. I (1278) as the right heir ; the issue of the cider da. and coheir liaving become ex. in 1273, as mentioned in the text. This John Aston had certain lands in Thornton assured to him to release his right, in the Comittttus of Albemarle to the crown. ( rt ) "The surname of de Fortibtts was derived from Fort (sic), a Commune of the Canton of Prahecq in Boitou. "— See Preface by Thomas Stapletcn to "Liber de antiquis legions," pub. by the Camden Society, 1S46 (p. xxxiv note). Here a'so is quoted a deed, dat. :j Bob. 1283, in which "Alicia, Comitissi Augi," declares "quod ego terrain de Fori dimisi in uiauu Karissimi Domini mei Ludovici. Regis Kraneie illustris, ad cujus manna devenerat ex exchaeto Guillehni, quondam Domim &> Forzct Oomitjs Anbemarle." The best vernacular form of the name, which is Latinized de FoHibua," appears to be "dc Fortl ;" and this is what is adopted by Sir N. H. Nicolas (Hist, of the Royal Navy, i, 87, 88) probably from Hoveden.
