Roger D'Aubigny

     Roger D'Aubigny, son of William D'Aubigny and Albreda du Plessis, was born circa 1036 in St. Martin d'Aubigny, Manche, Normandy, France.

Roger married second Amicia de Mowbray circa 1060. From Encyclopedia Brittanica (ed. Hugh Chisholm), Vols. 17-18, p. 948 (1919)

"A sister of Bishop Geoffrey [Bishop of Coutances] was mother by Roger d'Aubigny (of Aubigny in the Cotentin) of two sons, Nigel and William, who were ardent supporters of Henry I. They were rewarded by him with great estates in England. William was made king's butler, and was father of William d'Aubigny, first earl of Arundel; Nigel was rewarded with the escheated fief of Geoffrey de la Guerche, of which Melton (Mowbray) was the head, and with forfeited lands in Yorkshire. Nigel married, by dispensation, the wife of his cousin, the imprisoned earl, but afterwards divorced her, and by another wife was father of a son Roger, who took the name of Mowbray."

Roger D'Aubigny, his father, William D'Aubigny, and Neil III d'St. Sauveur fought underWilliam the Conqueror on 14 October 1066 in the Battle of Hastings.¹

Roger D'Aubigny died circa 1104.