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ARUNDEL COMPLETE PEERAGE 233 Domesday survey, where, of course, no local designation is attributed to him. He d. 27 July 1094. II. 1094. 2. Hugh (de Montgomery), Earl of Shrewsbury, fsPc, and Earl of Arundel, 2nd s., (") but h. to his father's English possessions. He d. s.p., 1098. III. 1098 3. Robert (de Bell^me), Count of Alen^on afsd. to (having, in 1082, sue. his mother as such) was permitted, 1 102. by William II, to succeed to the English Earldoms of his yr. br. He became therefore Earl of Shrewsbury, ^c., and Earl of Arundel. He was exiled and attainted in 1 102, whereby all his English honours and estates heca.me forfeited to the Crown. Q) IV. 1 138 or 1 139 I. William d'Aubigny (") de Albiniaco, or in the to Anglo-Latin of Dugdale and other writers, de Al- 1176. BiNi, C') surnamed 'the strong hand, ' (*) Lord of the manor of Buckenham, Norfolk, s. and h. of William d'A., of the same, {d. ii39)(^) Pincema Regis, (^) by Maud, da. of Roger LE Bigod, was b. early in the reign of Henry I. On his marriage with the Queen Dowager (for which see below), he acquired with her, in C^) Sir Henry Howorth, in The Academy for June 1882, alleges that he was ist. s. C") For fuller particulars of the foregoing see "Shrewsbury, " Earldom of, irr. 107 1. C^) Aubigny is in the arrond. of Coutances, dept. of La Manche. It was confiscated in 1204 by Philip Augustus, who made known by his charter that " terra comitis de Harundel " (and that of many others) was " de dominico nostro " [Bibl. Nat., MS. 8408, 2, 2, B, f. 179 d). He gave it to the Count of Ponthieu, and in the Register of Philip Augustus it is stated that " Comes Pontivi tenet Albigni de domino Rege per servicium duorum militum et dimidii. " Marie, Countess of Ponthieu, gave it back to Louis VIII, in July 1225. (Tresor des Chartes, Ponthieu, I, no. 46). {ex inform. G.W.Watson). V.G. C) Of course no one ever bore such a name as de Albini ; the modern surname Daubeney indicates what the name of these Earls was. V.G. Q This was from (or, more probably, itself suggested) the legend that, at Bourges in France, in 1137 (the year previous to his marriage) he had pulled out the tongue of a lion let loose to destroy him by Adeliz, the Queen Dowager of France, out of jealousy from his having rejected her for the sake of her namesake of England. This tale Vincent, in his Errors of Brooke (Brooke having related it as fact), calls that of the " Lye-on. " He migrated from the Cotentin to England temp. Hen. I, as J.H. Round has pointed out. (*) See Chron. of Jon de Oxenedes. C") This office of " Chief Butler " (Pincema) appears, in the division of 1243, not to have followed the Manor of Buckenham in Norfolk (which was the principal estate of the grantee), but the Castle of Arundel, which was the " caput Baronias " of Earl Hugh, the last holder. It is now held as appendant to the Earldom of Arundel, the fees being the gold basin, ewer, and cup used by the King at the Coronation banquet. 31