DAUBENEY

Amongst the most distinguished companions in arms of the Conqueror was Robert de Todeni, a nobleman of Normandy, upon whom the victorious monarch conferred, with numerous other grants, an estate in the county of Lincoln upon the borders of Leicestershire. Here De Todeni erected a stately castle, and from the fair view it commanded, gave it the designation of Belvoir Castle, and here he established his chief abode. He died in 1088, and was succeeded by his eldest son William, who assumed the surname of Albini or Aubeney, and acquired great renown at the celebrated Battle of Tenercheby, in Normandy, where, commanding the horse, he charged the enemy with so much spirit that he determined at once the fate of the day. From his eldest son WILLIAM derived the Lords of Belvoir, now represented, through a female, by the Duke of Rutland, and from his second son, RALPH, the Daubeneys, Barons Daubeney and Earls of Bridgewater, the Daubenes of Gorwell, co. Dorset, and the Daubeneys of Bristol.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey roll)