236 COMPLETE PEERAGE arundel he did not obtain restoration of them till Richard I restored them to him, 27 June 1 190, when (according to the admission (") of 1433 abovenamed) he became Earl of Arundel. He was, however, styled Earl of Arundel before he received possession of the Castle and Honour, namely, on 18 Sep. 1 1 89, and on 26 Nov. of the same year he witnessed King Richard's Charter as " Will. Earl of Arundel. " C") He received also at the same time, the third penny of the pleas of Sussex in the precise words of the grant made to his father. In 1 191 he was made Custos of Windsor Castle, and in 1 1 94 one of the Receivers of the money raised for the King's ransom. He m. Maud, widow of Roger (de Clare), Earl of Hertford (who had d. 1 173), da. and h. of James de St. Hilaire du Harcouet, by Aveline, his wife. He d. 24 Dec. 1193, C") and was bur. at Wymondham Priory. VI. 1 193. 3. William (d'Aubigny), Earl of Sussex, and Earl OF Arundel, s. and h. He was a favourite of King John, whose concession of the Kingdom to the Pope, 15 May 12 13, he witnessed, and whom he accompanied to Runnymede, 15 June 1215. ("*) When, however. King John abandoned Winchester, 14 June 1216, to Louis (afterwards Louis VIII) of France, he joined that Prince, but (consistently talcing the winning side) returned to his allegiance 14 July 12 17, after the Royalist victory at Lincoln. Shortly afterwards he acted as Justiciar, the young King, Henry III, having restored to him his forfeited possessions. He m. Mabel, 2nd da. of Hugh (le Meschin, surnamed Kevelioc), Earl OF Chester, by Bertrade, da. of Simon, Count of Evreux in Normandy. She, in her issue, was (1232) one of the four coheirs to her br. Ranulph (surnamed Blundeville), Earl of Chester. He embarked in the crusade of 1218, and was at the taking of Damietta in Nov. 12 19, but d. at Cainell, near Rome, (" quoddam oppidulum Kainel nomine ") shortly that such successor was s. of Adeliz, for, in that case, his (said) mother would have been dead above a quarter of a century. Moreover the Earl himself had been receiving, since 1 180, the third penny of the county of Sussex. See Madox, Baronia Aug., p. 139. G.E.C. At Mich. 1 1 79, Walter de Coutances (afterwards Archbishop of Rouen) renders an account of the Honour of Arundel for the years since 1 176, but from 1179 to 1 189, when it was restored to the d'Aubignys, it was held, presumably for the Crown, by one of the family of Fitz Reinfred. There is evidence that Walter de Coutances was of the Fitz Reinfred family, being br., or possibly br. -in-law, of Roger Fitz R. {Notes on Facsimile Charters, Warner and Ellis, no. 54.) V.G. C) See p. 231, note " b. " (*) Hist. MSS. Com., Wells MSS., vol. i, p. 309. There are not many instances of any of the d'Aubignys being styled Earl of Arundel after the death of Earl William in II 76. V.G. 1^) His death is thus entered in the annals of Waverley Abbey : — " 1 193 anno 5 Ric. I. obiit Willelmus Comes junior de Arundel in vigilia natalis Domini. " It is curious how generally the date is wrongly given as 1 196. V.G. ("*) His namesake of Belvoir became one of the sureties for the King's observance of Magna Charta as ' William d'Aubigny, Sheriff of Warwick and Leicester. '
