de Plessis

Family/Spouse: William d'Aubigny. William (son of Vicomte de St. Sauveur Niel III de St. Sauveur and Adela d'Eu) was born in 1020 in Aubigny, Normandy, France; died after 1066. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Amice de Montbrey in 1040 in Aubigny, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud Bigod. Maud (daughter of Earl of East Anglia Roger Bigod and Adeliza de Toeni) was born about 1088 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England; died before 1136. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was influential in arranging the treaty of 1153, whereby the Crown continued with King Stephen for life, though the inheritance thereof was secured to Henry II. To this instrument he subscribed as "Comes Cicestrie." Henry II, by a grant undated, but supposed to have been in 1155 (the year after his accession), confirms to him as "William, EARL OF ARUNDEL, the Castle of Arundel, with the whole honor of Arundel and all its appurtenances," and, by the same instrument, bestows on him the third penny of the pleas of the county of SUSSEX unde Comes est. He was justly held in great esteem by Henry II, and was one of the embassy to Rome in 1163/4, and to Saxony (on the espousal of the Princess to the Duke of Saxony) in 1168. He was also in command of the Royal army in August 1173, in Normandy, against the King's rebellious sons, where he distinguished himself for his "swiftness and velocity," and, on 29 September following he assisted at the defeat, near Bury St. Edmunds, of the Earl of Leicester, who, with his Flemings, had invaded Suffolk.

William married Adeliza de Leuven in 1138. Adeliza (daughter of Count of Leuven and Brussels, Landgraves of Brabant Godfrey de Leuven, Duke of Lorraine I and of Chiny Ida) was born about 1094 in Affligem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium; died on 23 Apr 1151 in Affligem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]